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Loop the Loop
At Thorpe Park in Surrey, a place for hardy roller coaster riders, Coca Cola have set up one of their first Coke Recycling Zones to encourage visitors to recycle plastic bottles. The Carbon Trust has found that packaging accounts for the greatest proportion of a drinks company's carbon footprint and yet it is estimated that only 25% of PET bottles are recycled.
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Waste Lands
The simple fact is that the human race generates waste. But the word "waste" has such a negative connotation and yet it doesn't have to be that way - it just requires a different mindset.
It wasn't so long ago that we didn't have multiple bins for separating household waste - bins that seem to be taxing The Daily Mail at the moment in terms of the blight they have on good...
The Zero and the Hero
In my last blog I raised the question of why we ship waste around the planet for recycling and this question has some added poignancy when you read what has turned up in Brazil. Famous for its Mardi Gras, rain forests and prodigious footballing talent, Brazil is now the repository of 1,400 ton...
Read more on The Zero and the Hero It's obvious isn't it? we can cut down on the things we have to recycle by cutting down on unnecessary packaging and everyone is at it. Cadbury's reduced their packaging on Easter eggs by 25% this 'season' but this was dwarfed by Green and Black's 60% reduction. In their latest money saving TV ads, Asda are featuring their minimal wrap on ready meals as opposed to a whole cover '" the implicati...
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Recycling Sense
There has been much comment recently about the collapse in the price for recycled waste as global demand falls, particularly from China. Apparently some Councils were looking to store recyclable waste in old warehouses rather than dump it in landfill such was the severity of the situation. Then demand started to pick up again but with this uncertainty surely there needs to be a better and more loc...
Use less in the first place
