Last night Edd Colbert hosted a massive knees-up in Trafalgar Square, to ceremonially devour eight pigs raised entirely on edible food waste - a delicious launch to a very original campaign. He spoke to The Ecologist about his ideas ...
… Let them eat waste! Edd Colbert | 22nd November 2013 Comment Food Farming Waste Pigs pig-idea-20.png Last night Edd … eight pigs raised entirely on edible food waste - a delicious launch to a very original …
Andrew Del Prado argues that society's attitude to recycling electronic gadgets is lagging far behind our desire to create the technology in the first place, and tells the Ecologist how his organisation is trying to combat this trend.....
… comes with the proliferation of electronic waste. According to the Environmental … 2009 Facts and Figures on Municipal Solid Waste, about 82.3% of electronic waste in the US was thrown away in landfills …
Under the 'Incredible India' brand lurk millions of fast-growing piles of decomposing waste, reports Almudena Serpis. As they await removal, polluting waters and stinking under the tropical sun, India is rapidy becoming the world's biggest rubbish dump.
… Serpis | 17th December 2013 News India Waste Pollution india-waste-cow.png Under the 'Incredible India' … millions of fast-growing piles of decomposing waste, reports Almudena Serpis. As they await …
The 'environmentalist' peer Baroness Worthington argued last week in the House of Lords for local authorities to be stripped of their powers to refuse the dumping of radioactive waste in their areas. Geneticist Becky Martin takes her to task in this Open Letter.
… Dear Bryony - don't dump your nuclear waste on us! Dr Becky Martin | 12th March 2013 Comment Nuclear Waste Politics radwaste-cut.jpg The 'environmentalist' peer …
The National Trust for Ireland and Greenpeace have launched two independent legal challenges to UK Government plans for new nuclear power plants at Hinkley Point, Somerset, re-opening long-standing questions about nuclear safety.......
… hasn't found a site to store the new nuclear waste, following Cumbria's resounding rejection of a national nuclear waste site in the area. National Trust for … arrangements" for dealing with the nuclear waste that would be generated. In other words, …
In her new weekly column, the Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on the stories that show standing up for what we believe in can and does make a real difference.
… Online: Where should we be looking for waste we can turn to energy? Lorna Howarth | 13th January 2013 News Energy Renewables Waste Biofuels biofuel pic option 2.jpg … chaff of food crops; essentially, energy from waste. In the UK where planning applications …
An interview with Trebbe Johnson by Juliana Schneider
… a very prestigious grant to recycle steel waste. He told me that he was very excited … he drove out to an enormous mound of steel waste. He climbed to the top of the mound with … he got to the top, he exclaimed to the steel waste, “I will conquer you!” Then he realized …
The US's 'dash to frack' for oil or gas, which has transformed the country's energy market, is seriously depleting and contaminating aquifers and surface water supplies, writes Valerie Brown. The choice facing America is plain - energy, or water?
… June 2013 News Water USA Fracking Pollution Waste … water and how they will dispose of their wastewater. Even in the face of a drought … fracking is complete is also challenging. The wastewater is a mixture of the injected …
Lorna Howarth examines a growing movement in urban planning that moves beyond preventative sustainable development to 'regenerative' development, aiming to counter some of the destruction urbanisation has wreaked on the planet....
… a city, we must return compost from organic waste. We must make regenerative energies into … for their origins or destination of their waste products; they emit vast amounts of … increasing biodiversity. An ambitious zero-waste policy has been implemented that has …
Tim Deere-Jones dissects the UK Government's system for monitoring doses of marine derived radioactivity in food and concludes that the current programme is deeply flawed.
… to the discharge and disposal of radioactive wastes from a proposed nuclear power station … that the discharge of gaseous and liquid wastes to the marine environment and … pipelines for the discharge of liquid nuclear waste to the UK’s coastal waters were …
In her weekly column, the Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on the stories that show standing up for what we believe in can and does make a real difference.
… Is this possibly the most creative use of waste ever? Lorna Howarth | 20th January 2013 … alongside open sewers littered with plastic waste. Bebi, who is 19, is the proud owner of … would not see them go without. Once likely waste materials have been garnered from the …
Ghost nets - nylon fishing nets abandoned in the ocean - are the sea life killers that keep on killing. Roisin Woolnough reports on the Healthy Seas initiative to transform the ghost nets into useful products from socks and swimwear to carpet tiles.
… figure accounts for one tenth of all marine waste, according to research by the United … a yarn called ECONYL, made from regenerated waste such as disused fishing nets, textiles … which could be used to regenerate more waste. The yarn can be used for all sorts of …
This month we see the arrival of the new iPhone. Surely the world's most desired gadget. How should we judge its carbon credentials?
… 2013 Ethical Living Science & Technology Waste & Recycling smartphones.jpg This month … efficient lightbulb is eight times more wasteful than an iPhone. Apple's supply chain … the company. Yet here comes a slightly more wasteful iPhone. Perhaps it's a necessary step …
The UK government is planning 75GW of new nuclear power, Jamie Doward reports - equivalent to 50 1.5GW reactors, or 25 dual-reactor Hinkley C's - enough to supply 86% of the UK's energy demand.
… a submission to a consultation on geological waste disposal, the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management has said an upper limit of … facilities that might be required for the waste that will be produced by new nuclear …
As plans go ahead for the UK’s first new nuclear plant in twenty years, Edgar Vaid reviews a film that takes a look at the issues surrounding the use of nuclear power by our neighbours across the Channel ...
… November 2013 Reviews Nuclear Power Nuclear Waste Film Reviews welcome to nuclear land.jpg … campaigner comments that although the nuclear waste is discharged from the pipeline quite … stance. Significantly, whilst German nuclear waste was sent to La Hague for re-processing, …
Teresa Anderson of the Gaia Foundation peels back the gloss of modern gadgets to reveal the devastating environmental and social costs of their manufacture.
… exposes how the accelerating consumption and wasteful disposal of our electronic gadgets is … for these gadgets, only to quickly return as wasted and toxic landfill. With alluring … technique to increase sales, but it is hugely wasteful, and requires more and more of the …
Fernanda Mayrink, who championed and launched the ‘Light Recicla' scheme tells Alex Elliott how it is revolutionising lives in Santa Marta and beyond.
… see any arms and guns, but there was a lot of waste in the streets. When it rains heavily … lives if they are in the middle of all this waste? So we went to see a waste management project in Sierra called …
An unexpected outcome of the Fukushima nuclear disaster is that the UK's Sellafield nuclear site - already the world's biggest plutonium repository - is set to store even more of the radioactive, fissionable metal.
… were produced from the UK's own nuclear waste, while 17 tonnes come from Japan and the … Oxide Reprocessing Plant), Britain's nuclear waste reprocessing plant at the 6-square … reprocesses Japan's large stocks of nuclear waste. In principle Japan wants to use that …
Being mindful of your direct and indirect water consumption is beneficial to the planet, your health and your finances writes Ruth Barton....
… | 10th October 2013 Ethical Living Water Waste & Recycling water.jpg Being mindful of … off while you brush your teeth. Leaving it on wastes up to 6 litres of water per minute, … water use water more efficiently. Reduce waste. Only buy what you need and try not to …
Leading academic brands industry a "scam" as campaigners condemn our growing thirst for bottled water
… a scam, backing campaigners' claims of wasted millions and environmental pollution at … is damaging the environment and a huge waste of money - in the UK alone, the market … water." The WWF adds that bottled water is a waste of money, and says there are more …
An Inuit hunting trip inspired Clare Kendall to seek out sources of meat that were good for her health, the environment - and her pet cat............
… It has a clean death and nothing goes to waste in the Arctic.” The experience made me … for borscht or Chinese hot pot. There’s no waste and it’s remarkably good housekeeping. … “On top of which,” says Davies, “there’s the waste. Only a small percentage of birds …
The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on news and action from the environmental frontline....
… severe and growing problems with plastic waste – indeed a new film featuring Jeremy … struggling with the issue of plastic waste, so it’s welcome news that Pakistan has …
Why Pakistan’s recent announcement of a ban of non-biodegradable plastics may not be beneficial for the environment. Lorna Howarth reports.....
… This fragmentation is not a solution to the waste problem, but rather the conversion of visible contaminants (the plastic waste) into invisible contaminants (the … Much of the problem regarding plastic waste is the behavioural tendency to …