How have an Eco-Friendly Jubilee Street Party On June 3rdthe Queen of England will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years since she became monarch. The Queen has chosen for the Platinum Jubilee to have a special environmental focus; The Queen’s Green Canopy is an initiative encouraging people to [...]
Firstly, what exactly are microplastics? Microplastics are small fragments of plastic which are less than 5mm long (or about the size of a sesame seed). They come from a variety of sources; some plastics are manufactured to be this small and are used in exfoliating products; and other larger plastic [...]
Somewhere between 80-90 million Easter eggs are eaten in the UK every year, which generates over 4,500 tons of waste packaging, much of which isn’t recycled. A study by Which? revealed that in 2019, packaging made up a quarter of the total weight of the most popular High Street Easter [...]
In November 2021, the government passed a new Environment Act, including targets to halve the waste that ends up at landfill or incineration by 2042. Currently, UK households only recycle about 45.7% of their waste. Paper and cardboard are the most commonly recycled materials at a rate of 79%, followed by [...]