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Plan to ban items from bins to boost recyclingGuardian Unlimited | 17 Mar 2010Paper and card, food, garden waste and plastics on proposed list of items that would have to be recycledBlack bins for household waste could become a thing of the past under proposals to be published tomorrow to ban almost everything thrown away by households from being sent to landfill.Paper and...
England | Recycling | Waste Management Look After LondonThis is London | 03 Dec 2009A few weeks before I took up my job as the Mayor's food adviser, I went to see some food-growing projects in the capital, the first being in the centre of four ugly grey tower blocks in Tower Hamlets.
Organic Farming | Recycling Economic slow down helps Ireland meet waste targetsEnvironment Data Interactive Exchange | 03 Dec 2009The Irish authorities have not tried to claim credit for a fall in the amount of rubbish being put out by households, acknowledging that the drop in waste generation is likely to be due to the gloomy economic situation over the past year.
Recycling Pulling the plug on festive lightsGuardian Unlimited | 29 Nov 2009Your tree can twinkle in the corner so long as you invest in LEDs and a timer. After all, even we greens like a white Christmas Nothing marks you out as an eco Scrooge quicker than protesting about non-essential festive lighting. So I refuse to condemn a few tree lights, although there's a lot of truth in the idea that the only really green tree is the one with its roots still in the ground (we ...
Recycling | Renewable Energy Look After LondonThis is London | 25 Nov 2009Antigone Theodoro, 32, has been using 'Freecycle', the recycling website, for the last three years. In June she started volunteering for them as the website moderator for the Kensington and Chelsea Borough branch, and dedicates one to two hours a day remotely checking that "all is well on the site" in between studying for her MBA at Cambridge university.
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