Asda plans charges for carrier bags
Local supermarket, Asda, will be forced to impose a 10p charge for carrier bags if use is not cut by 50% this year. The store’s decision comes as a result of the governments “bag levy” and will be slowly implemented throughout all UK stores if the 50% cut is not achieved. Notices are being displayed [...]
Birmingham City Council Supports Love Food Hate Waste Campaign
Birmingham City Council has pledged their support to the Love Food Hate Waste campaign as a new study has revealed that £10 billion pounds worth of food is being thrown away each year. The study, concluded by WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), has announced that we throw away one third of food we buy [...]
Police called to handle rubbish
This is exactly why we should recycle…. Police were called to a quarry after finding photos of a murder scene on site. Two gruesome shots of a half naked woman were found provoking the attendance of the local force – only to discover they were from the ITV show, Wire in the Blood. According to [...]
New recycling plant proposed for Birmingham
Birmingham City Council has announced that they are proposing to find a new recycling processing plant near Birmingham. Currently glass, cans and plastic bottles travel 154 miles to a processing plant in Essex whereas paper and card goes to the Tamworth branch of Smurfit Kappa and is made into cardboard boxes. The council wish to [...]
Birmingham recycling, is it on the increase?
Recycling is on the increase as the door step collection service has reached over 20,000 homes in Birmingham. The city council are encouraging locals to start taking care of the environment and have suggested that almost all housing in Birmingham will be provided with the service by the end of the year. Recycling is one [...]
Recycle and composting in Birmingham!
People often underestimate how important it is to recycle in a big city, and in Birmingham there is no excuse not to when there are four hundred local recycling centres available for us to use. As well as this there are also smaller recycling banks that can be found in car parks or by your [...]