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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thanks to the power of social media, we were treated recently to the news that Defra’s offices in London had to be closed at a weekend for fumigation in order to be...
I know we are in the business of recycling and reuse, but I make no apology for returning to a subject that has featured in this column on several occasions. I refer of...
I wonder if, like me, you were intrigued by the recent coverage of the Mars 500 project. Fascinating images were published of the journey to Mars being simulated in a...
Convenience, they say, is key to the success of any recycling service. We must do everything we can to make things as easy as possible for the public, otherwise – silly...
The conjunction of events encourages me to return to a regular theme for this column, that of the recurring dilemma between consumption and ethics, and the challenges...
As I sit to write, the coalition government has just completed its first 100 days in office. ‘100 days’ is a device often used by the media to make early assessments of...
