Before we get onto the fun stuff, just to let you know, Bob has been on holiday for two weeks. So I have been going out with Bob to learn the route and since I phoned him up to say, Bob where shall I meet you today and he chortled, I’m at Gatwick, ho ho [...]
Category > Recycling news
Favela Flavours
Here’s a lovely recycling story from all the way over in Brazil, sent to us by Tom.
In 1971, Jaime Lerner became mayor of Curitiba, the capital of the southeastern state of Brazil. He was by profession an architect. Quite typical for the region, the urban population had mushroomed from 120,000 people in 1942 to over [...]
Take that, C. O’Mingle…
STOP PRESS:
Paper recyclers have withdrawn their support for the “Recycle Now Week” campaign that is to start tomorrow, accusing the campaign of failing to support “sustainable recycling”.
See the whole article here …
How much effort is it to recycle?
I read this article in the latest issue of The Resource Recovery Forum weekly round up (I love reading about recycling! I’ll get back to you when I’ve read the Waste Strategy), what do you think? Does The Laundry make it easy for you to recycle, or is it all a lot of hard work?
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Less rubbish, more recycling!
Have a look here for a story that caught my eye this morning. Councils that have gone onto domestic rubbish collections every other week have seen an increase in recycling rates - interesting eh?
Fame at last!
We’ve hit the big time - well, in the recycling world at least. Letsrecycle.com wrote a lovely little story about our Laundry party,
look here for the full story! (scroll down a bit when you open the link)
Rubbish Recycling
A serious post today, about recent happenings in the rubbish and recycling world. We were interested to read this story about a waste company being fined for shipping mixed waste abroad.
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