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Environment Agency demands tougher fines for polluters
Ecologist
6th November, 2009
Agency calls on courts to hand out stronger penalties for waste and pollution criminals more...Don't throw out your old TVs
Ecologist
3rd November, 2009
Digital UK urged to remind public not to throw out existing televisions when the analogue TV signal is switched off in their region more...Councils using chip fat as fuel and road filler
Amy Dickson
5th November, 2009
Richmond council has become the first in the country to run its entire vehicle fleet on 100 per cent recycled biodiesel, while Lincolnshire is using the stuff to patch roads more...The more we recycle, the more waste firms profit
Shlomo Dowen
22nd October, 2009
Earlier this month, campaigner Shlomo Dowen won a landmark High Court case that forced Nottinghamshire council to reveal its financial arrangements with waste contractor Veolia Environmental Services. So what did Veolia want to keep so quiet? more...Wales plans to bring in compulsory plastic bag charge
Ecologist
16th October, 2009
Welsh Government says a charge is the only way to reduce plastic bag use further and encourage reuse more...National Grid plan for local waste-to-biogas plants
Ecologist
8th October, 2009
Electricity operator National Grid believes that with the right Government incentives, renewable gas could be produced from our waste and fed straight into the mains more...UK losing £650m a year by binning and burning waste
Ecologist
7th October, 2009
A report from Friends of the Earth reveals the huge extent of the pollution and financial losses caused by our love of landfill and incineration more...Greenpeace forces HP to go toxin-free
Ecologist
30th September, 2009
Greenpeace’s campaign for greener electronics shows promising results as HP release an almost toxin-free product more...What went wrong with Freecycle in the UK?
Sarah Lewis
30th September, 2009
The recycling network has seen its UK groups halve in number after members lost patience with its 'autocratic' US leadership more...UK likely to miss landfill targets
Ecologist
28th September, 2009
Badly thought out waste policy could land the UK with a £0.5 billion fine more...Designing out waste means rethinking the system
Steve Evans
8th September, 2009
Design is everywhere, deciding how things look, how they work and how systems run. But effective ecodesign is difficult when decisions are made in isolation, says Steve Evans more...Councils accused of ignoring biogas
Ecologist
7th August, 2009
Find out if your council is about to waste your waste in favour of incinerators with our interactive map more...
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Biogas: is your council about to waste your waste?
David Strahan
4th August, 2009
Biogas - a methane-rich fuel made from rotting food waste or sewage - has huge potential as a clean, green fuel for the UK. But a perverse web of subsidies, rules and contracts could mean UK councils are about to kiss goodbye to the real power of waste... more...Hewlett-Packard = Hazardous Products, says Greenpeace
The US company has been singled out for its failure to remove dangerous chemicals from computers more...Britain's battery recycling one of Europe's worst
Chie Elliott
30th June, 2009
Less than 3 per cent of household batteries are currently recycled in Britain. Chie Elliott looks into why we're at the bottom of Europe's league tables more...Visionaries: William McDonough
Ecologist
1st April 2009
William McDonough highlights the wastefulness and environmental impacts of modern design and manufacturing and proposes a whole rethink of the process.more...
Sweeteners to track waste water flows
Ecologist
1st July, 2009
Researchers may soon be using artificial sweeteners to track the path waste water takes. more...Sustainable cities- rethinking sustainable building
Pat Thomas
1st June, 2009
Sustainability consultant Dr David Strong tells Pat Thomas why the way we think about sustainable building needs to be demolished and rebuiltmore...
Fire resistant: 'Why I went to jail to protect my daughter from toxic polluters'
Terri Swearingen
1st December, 2004
How far would you go to fight plans for a new waste incinerator? One woman went all the way... more...Call for Tennessee fly ash clean up
Ecologist
1st March, 2009
A catastrophic spill of fly ash has renewed calls for the waste to be reclassified. more...MP Alan Whitehead proposes a bill to see more recycled resources used in new products
News
15th April, 2009
Many dutiful recyclers feel rightly frustrated that so few of their carefully washed bottles and cans put out each week seem to make their way back into the same product. more...Composting under fire
Anne Barr
28th March, 2009
Next time you grumble that it's too much effort to seperate you plastic from your cans, imagine doing it as the bullets are flying over head more...Oxfordshire beauty spot saved from becoming a waste coal ash dump
Ecologist
21st January, 2009
It has been a long and bitter struggle. When locals who had for years enjoyed the peace and tranquillity of Thrupp lake at Radley, Oxfordshire, learned that it was to be filled with fly-ash from Didcot power station, they assumed that a small but vocal protest would help see off the plans. more...Californian Ocean Protection Council calls for a state-wide ban on Styrofoam packaging
Ecologist
16th January, 2009
Little angers environmentalists more than receiving food or products in Styrofoam packaging, and now the Californian Ocean Protection Council has called for a blanket ban on the use of the material in food containers across California. more...Poison Fire Interview
Phil Moore
11th September, 2008
Filmmaker Lars Johansson talks to the Ecologist about the making of the film 'Poison Fire' and the curse of oil in the Niger Delta. more...