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Described by the UN Secretary-General as a “code red for humanity,”. The latest climate report released by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a sombre assessment of our planet’s future. 

Released just in time for the COP26. The UN climate change conference is set to take place in Glasgow later this year. The much-anticipated report provides a comprehensive and detailed picture of how human activity is causing climate change. Its findings make for sobering reading.

But what does it mean to us? How can we help avoid a future of extreme heatwaves, severe flooding, and devastating droughts? In this article, we’ll highlight some of the key points raised in the IPCC climate change report and explain what code red for humanity means for you.

Discarded laughing gas canisters are becoming an increasingly familiar sight on our pavements and in our parks. These small steel bottles contain nitrous oxide or ‘laughing gas’ which has become a recreational drug of choice for party and festival-goers.

Nitrous oxide is a light anaesthetic in dentistry or to charge whipped cream aerosols. As a drug, the gas it provides is transferred from the canister into a balloon and inhaled. The high that users get is brief, so you’ll often find a large number of discarded canisters in the same place.

With more of us working from home, or just wanting to enjoy a luxurious cup of coffee whenever we fancy one, the popularity of coffee pods has surged. It’s great for the coffee companies and a treat for us, but maybe not so good for the environment, as a YouGov poll of over 4,000 coffee pod drinkers found that 35% of them didn’t know that coffee pods were recyclable. 

A social enterprise in Lisburn in Northern Ireland has joined forces with an organic materials recycling firm and a potato company to launch an initiative encouraging primary school kids to grow their own produce. 

A survey by campaign group Beyond the Box has found that doing something good for the environment can actually increase our mood.  

The biggest story in the headlines this week is the news that Sainsbury's have announced they are launching a new plastic recycling scheme, in this scheme customers will be able to recycle polypropylene which is used to make items like salad bags and frozen food bags

 

Research carried out by environmental charity Hubbub has found that 1 in 6 adults have made their new years resolution to live more sustainably.  This article hopes to give some potential ideas in which this can be done

As being one of the most picturesque cities in central Europe, Ljubljana is one of the world's greenest cities and it even won the European Green Capital in 2016

Blackburn has joined forces with Darwen Council have asked residents to take part in a festive competition which will give them a chance to win cash prizes but will also help educate residents in recycling. 

In the news this week there is a focus on two toy companies joining Terracycles toy recycling program in a bid to make toys more sustainable