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Plastics
Unwrapping the truth behind packaging
From plastic novelties, costumes and decorations, items around the different seasonal celebrations and festivities are often bought to allow maximum convenience which comes with an invisible price…
15 November, 2019
Corporate Sustainability,
Circular Economy,
Plastics,
Learning
Back to Basics
On the 6th - 7th of November I attended Ecomondo, the Green Technology Expo, located near the seaside town of Rimni, Italy. After a relatively pain free, all be it mammoth journey, I arrived…
17 December, 2018
Plastics
Drowning in Plastic
On November 29th I was invited to join Liz Bonnin, BBC environmental documentarist, to talk at the Royal Geographic Society on how we as a Planet are ‘drowning in plastics’ a documentary originally…
19 September, 2018
Blog,
Waste,
Food Waste,
Social and Governance (ESG),
Circular Economy,
Plastics,
Innovation,
Artificial Intelligence (AI),
and Infrastructure,
Industry,
Learning,
Environmental
The evolving role of the waste contractor
For those of us who’ve worked in or with the waste industry for a while, it certainly feels like times are changing. A public obsession with single use plastics, rallying cries for better food waste…
13 August, 2018
Waste,
Responsible Consumption and Production,
Plastics
The Chinese Sword and all hell has broken loose
No, this is not an article about ninja warriors but about how Chinese policies on waste have impacted recycling and waste management in the UK (and elsewhere). A bit of history...
04 June, 2018
Blog,
Clean Water and Sanitation,
Waste,
Responsible Consumption and Production,
Plastics
UN World Environment Day 2018: Beat Plastic Pollution
World Environment Day (WED) is an event that has been running since 1974 and is regarded as the ‘UN's most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our…
15 May, 2018
Waste,
Responsible Consumption and Production,
Plastics
How much do we actually recycle? It cannot be possible!
The consultancy Eunomia published a report recently which lifts the lid on declared recycling figures. Their analysis finally gives some data credibility to what many of us already intuitively…
21 April, 2018
Waste,
Responsible Consumption and Production,
Plastics
Beyond Earth Day 2018 and The Plastics Pact: to End Plastic Pollution
The world's largest environmental movement. And a good week for plastics? Earth Day (organised by the Earth Day Network) is a global event; it all started in 1970 when millions of people took to the…