Latest, Local Authorities

Talk is 'cheep'

Very few were optimistic about George Osborne’s budget announcements back in March, and rightly so. Confirmation that public spending will continue to fall beyond 2015 is unhappy news for everyone.

 

Metals, Career File, Materials, Jobs

Working in the scrap heap

Trading Manager Dany Drummond isn’t the sort of person you’d expect would work in a scrap yard. A sparky 20-something who joined SITA as a graduate four years ago, she’s about as far removed from the clichéd image of a metal merchant as you can get.

 

Futurevision, Textiles, Innovations, WEEE, Materials

Fashion victims

First our phones and now our clothes are going ‘smart’. But what price will the environment pay for newly-gadgetised attire? Libby Peake finds out

 

Books

How to be an Everyday Kitchen Magician

Every year, we Britons throw away 4.4 million tonnes of food and drink, an amount that apparently equates to a £480 loss for the average household.

 

Love Earth

To begin with, Love Earth doesn’t really look like a book.

 

Interviews Jobs

Community interests

It’s rare that you get to do an interview where the subject feels free to speak his mind.

 

Off the Wall

MADE OF MONEY

Dublin-based artist Frank Buckley has created this beautiful bungalow entirely from recycled materials. It boasts a spacious bedroom, bathroom and living room, and is well lit, cosy and warm. The downside? It took €1.4 billion to make.

 

WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

For most of us, recycling should be a familiar idea by now, but it seems that some people in Warwickshire still haven’t quite grasped the concept and are sending all manner of strange items to their local recycling centres.

 

Columns

Seasonal produce: Kicked into the long gras?

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.

 

Metals, Other Legislation, Materials, Legislation

Picking scraps

It’s the oldest part of the UK’s recycling sector: long before kerbside collections, steel and aluminium were being reused as scrap. It’s also one of the largest: the metal industry is worth over £5.6 billion to the British economy each year, with 5.5 million tonnes of iron

 

Community Sector News

Europe & World

Rock, reuse, recycle

When I ask Michel Welter, Booking and Communications Manager for Luxembourg’s Rock-A-Field festival, why the event has such a strong environmental ethos, he explains with an apt French expression ‘C’est dans l’air du temps.’

 

News, UK, Business & Industry

SITA sees growth from waste

SITA report shows contribution waste to resources industry can make to UK economy

 

Food Waste Network launched to help organics recycling

The Food Waste Network has been set up to try and help businesses recycle their food waste by linking them with collection services.

 

News, UK, Local Authority News, Business & Industry

Teesside plastic plant set to open

Sims Recycling Solutions have confirmed that its new plastics recycling plant on Teesside is expected to begin full operations in May.

 

FP, News, UK, Business & Industry

Public respond to packaging initiatives

A survey by the Food and Drink Federation shows that the public want more sustainable packaging and that most have noticed ongoing efforts towards this goal.

 

UK, Europe & World, Local Authority News, Business & Industry

Plastics exports in jeopardy

The entire structure for exporting recovered plastics overseas is in jeopardy, according to Cameron McClatchie, Chairman of British Polythene Industries (BPI) PLC.