A total of 1.6 million tonnes of food at the point of harvest or slaughter which goes to waste.
… Food worth £1.2 billion 'wasted' Emily Beament | 25th July 2019 News Food Waste Wrap 21649476-1.jpg A total of 1.6 … point of harvest or slaughter which goes to waste. Almost £1.2 billion worth of food a …
The major UK supermarkets and food companies have signed a pledge to help halve food waste by 2030.
… Supermarkets pledge to reduce food waste Josie Clarke | 13th June 2019 News Food Waste Supermarkets DEFRA Change Makers food waste.jpg The major UK supermarkets and food …
The tide is turning against the global toxic waste trade, as an appeal court in Sweden considers the plight of nearly 12,000 victims.
… Swedish firm exported toxic waste to Chile Rodrigo Pino Vargas EnvJustice … | 25th March 2019 News Chile Sweden Toxic Waste Court Case Arica toxic waste The tide is turning against the global …
Campaigners will gather at the Springfields nuclear site in Lancashire to raise awareness on the twin fronts of new nuclear generation and radioactive waste disposal.
… Creative action against nuclear waste Chris Bluemel Stop New Nuclear Network | … of new nuclear generation and radioactive waste disposal. Nuclear power has never lived … and a build up of 70 years worth of nuclear waste. In the UK, the costs of nuclear …
A group of leading business have launched a global initiative aimed at jumpstarting the plastics circular economy.
… 25th June 2019 News Plastics Circular Economy Waste And Recycling Science & Systems plastic_waste.jpg A group of leading business have … of these goods? They’re all in it together.” Waste Viewers were left with a prevailing …
Burning toxic electronic waste fills the air of Ghana's capital city with dangerous and nauseating dioxins.
… E-waste toxins polluting Ghana Kate Harveston | 12th June 2019 News Ghana E-waste Pollution Consumption Thought Leaders … Burning toxic electronic waste fills the air of Ghana's capital city …
A staggering 83 percent of the material in Halloween costumes is oil-based plastic.
… Horror of Halloween plastic waste Josie Clarke | 18th October 2019 News Plastic Waste 22226264-1.jpg A staggering 83 … will add up to 2,000 tonnes of plastic waste in the UK this year. Reuse Both …
The textile industry has had a reputation for massive waste and water usage for years, but a focus on moving away from fast fashion, the textile industry could become more sustainable.
… How to reduce waste in the fashion Industry Emily Folk | 24th June 2019 News Textiles Waste Sustainability Thought Leaders … industry has had a reputation for massive waste and water usage for years, but a focus …
The beauty industry produces over 421,000 pounds of waste daily while stylists experience deadly effects. This shouldn’t be the reality.
… December 2019 News Salon Hairdressing Zero Waste Pollution Change Makers … industry produces over 421,000 pounds of waste daily while stylists experience deadly … pounds of unrecycled foil, toxic chemical waste, and plastic bottles to landfills and …
Celebrations erupted across the city of Commerce in Los Angeles, California when it was lights out for its dirty incinerator.
… | 8th January 2019 News Incineration Waste Change Makers GAIA Celebrations erupted … change problem a lot worse. Compared to coal, waste incineration produces twice as much … they locked both greenhouse gas emissions and waste production in, by writing in the …
New advice for packaging fresh produce produced by waste reduction body Wrap, the Food Standards Agency and the Environment Department.
… for packaging fresh produce produced by waste reduction body Wrap, the Food Standards … off packaging as part of efforts to cut food waste, experts have said. New advice for … labelling fresh produce has been produced by waste reduction body Wrap, the Food Standards …
A looming environmental crisis unfolds in Syria, with makeshift oil refineries, crop fires, damaged water infrastructure and poor waste management.
… fires, damaged water infrastructure and poor waste management. Farmers in north east Syria … a broken oil industry, the absence of proper waste management, damaged water … the soil and groundwater in the region as waste is flowing from the refineries in rivers …
Recycling efforts of thousands wasted as new figures reveal extent of putrid problem in the war on preventable plastic waste.
… Staff Reporter | 10th July 2019 News Nappies Waste And Recycling … Recycling efforts of thousands wasted as new figures reveal extent of putrid … problem in the war on preventable plastic waste. A new campaign has been launched today …
Event organisers want to be part of a positive change, but sometimes intuitive measures have added complications.
… motivators, they reported reduced campsite waste of 70 percent on last year. Shamabla has … Recycling Exchange recycles five tonnes of waste each year. Whereas Wireless offered 10p … return scheme and it was quite unsuccessful. Waste But at least they’re not going to …
The 'advanced' nuclear power sector is dystopian because of its connections to fossil fuel mining and nuclear weapons proliferation.
… Transatomic Power that was developing a 'Waste-Annihilating Molten-Salt Reactor'. … Power gave up on its plan to use nuclear waste as reactor fuel after its theoretical … calculations were proven to be false, and the waste-annihilating reactor was reinvented as a …
Clearer thinking can help us steer a path towards sustainability.
… of the tax-avoidance fun. Mistake 3: Food waste is what we put in the bin One third of … worth taking about, and I commend the food waste campaigners who are working to change … their unjustifiably narrow definition of food waste. They define food waste as food thrown …
Local Government Association (LGA) says labelling for all products needs to be improved.
… to pay the full cost of disposing of their waste, the Local Government Association (LGA) … them boost recycling rates and tackle the waste crisis. The current national rate has been static at around 45% of household waste in England over the past few years - …
The London Waste and Recycling Board is helping to build a circular economy.
… & Ecologist ecologist_mapping.jpg The London Waste and Recycling Board is helping to build … act.” Sustainable alternative The London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) had this in … with local authorities to recycle more waste. LWRB’s Advance London programme …
Agriculture and land usage are major climate threats, IPCC concludes.
… rainforest, that are intensively farmed and waste tonnes of water, are not stickered. … is that farmed food which we could eat is wasted on feeding animals for slaughter. For … the farm door doesn’t end up in our stomachs. Waste Seventy percent of food is wasted by …
A new report outlines measures for transitioning to a circular economy.
… | 31st January 2019 News Circular Economy Waste And Recycling Science & Systems … changes We live in a linear, Take-Make-Waste economy. Materials extraction has more … consumption are not sustainable. Cutting waste is part of the answer to tackling …
… enters in, and the Earth sheds (‘dissipates’) waste heat into space. Individual animals and … and, taking the Earth system as a whole, the waste excreted by one component is absorbed … many productive processes are networked, the waste of one becoming “the meat of another”. …
What causes tailings dam - an earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations - disasters and are there industry solutions?
… finding viable alternatives to storing mine waste. The Mount Polley independent … alternative methods, including storing mine waste underground, or using the process of dry … for the dewatering and compacting of mine waste for storage. The report also called for …
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) accused the Tory government of failing to tackle throwaway fashion.
… to make retailers take responsibility for the waste they create. In a report, the MPs … should be forced to clear up the mountains of waste they create. The government has rejected … for reducing carbon emissions, water and waste. "The Scap along with other actions in …
Education must nurture young people who are aware of the problems that our world faces and who are armed with ideas on how to tackle them.
… Leaders Teaching Circular Economics Education Waste Pedagogy Editor’s Picks … being used and then reused, with as little waste and negative environmental impact as … in a ‘make-consume-dispose’ model, with high waste and significant negative environmental …