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2018 will be remembered as the year the world woke up to the plastic peril, thanks in no small part to the “Blue Planet 2” series, and the film “A…
EVENTS
October Meeting
‘Building Local Resilience’ with Anna Francis from Frome Town Council. Anna’s role focuses on helping Frome households, organisations and businesses become more resilient, self-reliant and sustainable…
A Greener Bradford – Saturday 8th September
There will be a number of stands including one from Climate Friendly BoA. If you might be able to help man this please email climatechampions@gmail.com. In any case do come…
September Meeting
Retrofitting existing buildings for lower carbon emissions with Dr Francis Moran, Research Associate, Centre for Energy and the Design of Environments (EDEn), University of Bath Historic dwellings in the UK…
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UK Lacks Infrastructure to Recycle Waste.
The first council in the UK has said it is planning to tell residents to stop recycling mixed plastic, sparking fears that years of progress on reducing black bag waste is on the verge of going into reverse.
It comes as the Environment Agency is understood to be investigating the plastics recycling industry over claims that millions of tonnes of plastic is never actually recycled, meaning consumers may have been wasting time separating plastic waste.
Plastic recycling waste has been building up in the UK since China stopped importing it last year, with the situation now so bad that councils have now started cutting plastic recycling services.
Swindon has said it wants households to put mixed plastic items, such as yogurt pots and plastic trays, in the bin with regular waste.
Council will tell households to bin plastic as recycling goes into reverse
telegraph.co.uk
The first council in the UK has said it is planning to tell residents to stop recycling mixed plastic, sparking fears that years of progress on reducing black bag waste is on the verge of going into reverse.
“This is a clarion call for governments around the world to act,” says Deben. “As the IPCC warns, keeping the rise in global temperatures to below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels would require fundamental changes in society by 2050, and the window for change is narrowing rapidly.”
This is Deben’s gentlest tone – usually he’s more pugnacious. In June, for example, he said with characteristic paternal severity that the homebuilding and car industries “should be ashamed” of their efforts to combat climate change. Homebuilders, he argued, weren’t properly insulating their homes and therefore were “cheating the people they sell to”.
Lord Deben: This is a clarion call – governments around the world must act on climate change
politicshome.com
Lord Deben is as intrepid and combative an advocate for the environment as anyone concerned about climate change could want. Ahead of Green GB Week, and as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues a dire new warning on rising temperatures, the chair of the Committee on Climate Change sit...
This looks like an interesting day! Sunday, in Frome.
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Speakers 2018 Archives - The Tree Conference
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Speakers 2018 Dr Martin Bidartondo Global Science Update & the Effects of Excess Nitrogen on Soil Fungi & Tree Health 10:10 Martin has been a scientist for over 20 years, first at the University of California at Berkeley, and then […]
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