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21 May 2013
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Ray Georgeson laments the dwindling presence of the local milkman.

 

Ray Georgeson takes a look at whether waste ministers were born to rule and recycle.

 

Ray Georgeson discovers the wisdom of a child.

 

The transition to a green economy is going to take some doing. Ray Georgeson gives his opinion on what could be done.

 

Recently, one of the recycling sector’s news websites carried a story under the heading of ‘Church takes cool stance on “resource”’. At first glance, it made me muse briefly on why the Church of England had seen fit to make a policy statement about waste and resources...

 

So much conspires nowadays to make it harder to track the passing of the seasons. Not just the weather of course, although that is doing its best with the exceptionally warm March followed by a considerably chillier April.

 

When I returned to the North of England four years ago, although I had grown fond of the little corners of Warwickshire and Worcestershire where I had been living, I realised just how much I had missed the North.

 

Controversial waste columnists Horatio Nelson (from Resource magazine) and Silas Wegg (from the Loop magazine) are both well known for being cutting thorns in the sides of waste scoundrels. When they met up in a real ale pub earlier in the year, fireworks were bound to...

 

All 178 countries that are Parties to the Basel Convention have supported the early entry into national laws of the Basel Ban Amendment, prohibiting all exports of hazardous wastes, including electronic wastes and old obsolete ships from developed to developing countries.

 

Famous quotations can often be not as accurately cited as they should be, and it turns out that the well known phrase “A week is a long time in politics”, famously attributed to Harold Wilson, doesn’t actually have a direct reference attached to it.

 

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