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Why It’s Important to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

October 06, 2021

Reduce, reuse, recycle. It’s more than a mantra, it’s what we need to do to slow down the frightening pace of climate change. The recent IPCC report on climate change...

Festival Litter: Summer Rubbish Roundup

September 08, 2021

When the festival last took place in 2019, there was litter lying on the site for over a week. The organisers said they would introduce incentives to tackle the problem...

What Can Be recycled? 10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle

July 14, 2021

The current UK recycling rate is hovering around 45%. While this is not bad, we could do better. However, even the avid recyclers among you will admit that you sometimes...

Greenest Cities: Adelaide, Australia

July 01, 2021

When it comes to sustainable living, some cities just lead the way. Adelaide in Australia is no exception. One of Australia’s greenest cities, it's home to 50% of South Australia’s...

Recycling Around the World A-Z: Zimbabwe

August 09, 2017

The final stop in our Recycling Around the World Series, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has always had a problem with litter, rubbish is just left by the side of the road and...

Recycling Around the World A-Z: Yemen

August 02, 2017

Yemen is a fairly new state, created in the 1990's it has always had trouble with conflict and instability. Yemen has a unique challenge is waste management with only a...

Recycling Around the World A-Z: Western Samoa

July 26, 2017

The Samoa Islands are fealing with a growing problem of junk cars and plastic bottles, they do have recycling companies in operation but they do not have the machinery to...

Recycling Around the World A-Z: Venezuela

July 19, 2017

Waste used to be a huge problem in the country, the main method of choice for disposal for many people were open garbage pits, poor people used to go to...

Recycling Around the World A-Z: Ukraine

July 12, 2017

Coming to the business end of this series, stopping off in Ukraine, their waste management series broke down just after the Soviet Union collapsed, this rose the amount of waste...

Recycling Around the World A-Z : Turkey

July 05, 2017

Turkey started recycling quite late compared to other European countries, by 2012 they had over 500 waste management facilities aimed at recycling, but only 38% is recycled with 39% ending...

Waste management strategies for festive events

November 02, 2025

When the Christmas lights are switched on and festive markets are springing up all over the UK, it makes for a magical atmosphere. But behind the mulled wine and the...

Laughing Gas Canisters: What you can do when you find them and how to recycle them

March 11, 2024

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...

Tap into behavioural science to boost your business recycling

January 07, 2026

There are plenty of reasons for businesses to introduce a recycling programme. It cuts waste management costs, positions companies as sustainably-minded, and can make them the business of choice for...