Food Waste Reduction – Preventing Waste Food from Being Sent to Landfills
In this article, we discuss Food Waste Reduction. It’s essential for preventing waste food from being sent to landfills, and how this eventual outcome makes action on food waste reduction before a ban is implemented ever more essential. Reducing food waste has been quite reasonably seen in many countries as the next big step in the battle for […]
What is District Heating and Cooling (DHC)? Combined Heat and Power Systems Explained
What is District Heating and Cooling? Outside the old eastern European block District Heating and Cooling (DHC) Systems are rare, and yet they may be much more common in future. DHC as a concept is often unfamiliar, so we decided that should write this to explain the concept. We also created a video on this […]
Problems with Plastic Waste Mount Up – UK Government Dumping Recyclate in Landfills and It’s in Our Food
Problems with plastic waste are mounting up, and that’s even before the Chinese ban on at the start of 2018, on imports of low quality recycled mixed plastic. Not only that the Sun Newspaper has reported that the UK government is condoning the dumping of plastic waste recyclate in UK landfills. Now that’s something that […]
The Rising Costs of Climate Change 2018
The costs of climate change in 2018 rose significantly. Climate change is increasingly costly, especially in the U.S. And, its man made nature is increasingly clear. On the current trajectory the world will be 4° to 5° hotter by the end of this century than it was before the industrial revolution. Although this may not […]
WRAP Launches New Municipal MRF Search Tool
The Waster is often asked for a list of UK MRFs so the announcement made in our article below should, at the very least have provided a UK municipal MRF search tool with a list of addresses and operator names. This is a glaring gap in the available information on these plants in Britain. Scroll […]
UK Waste Strategy 2017 Published
Environment secretary Michael Gove announced a much needed new UK Waste Strategy in October 2017 which is designed for a number of purposes. These include encouraging clean growth, promoting the circular economy, and reducing the UK’s carbon emissions. Many organisations have subsequently welcomed the UK Waste Strategy 2017, and we have included excerpts below from a number […]
