Birmingham Recycled Episode 4: Conservation

In this 4th. podcast from the conservation team at Birmingham Recycled; Emma, Kimberley, Natalie and Katie talks about reducing packaging on Easter eggs, the conservation management plan at Lickey Hills and and the issues surrounding water pollution in Britain.

Cadbury have reduced their packaging on some of their waster egg products, but have they done enough [...]

This week on Birmingham Recycled

This week on Birmingham Recycled we released the third part of our podcast. The Energy, Fuel and Transport correspondents took the trip into town to meet up with Dave Harte for chat, about energy saving tips and his involvement in the Act on CO2 campaign.
With more attendance than anticipated and with a royal guest in [...]

Birmingham Recycled Episode 3: Dave Harte

The Energy and fuel reporters Georgie Cambpell, Oliver Appleby, Joe Chapman and Andrew Nichol talks to Dave Harte about his Act on CO2 campaign. Dave is now one of ten participants in the Birmingham Act on Co2 campaign.
The group talks about how to specifically save money on your electricity bill by monitoring your different devices. [...]

This week on Birmingham Recycled

It’s holiday season and hopefully everyone is enjoying Easter and not doing too much hard work.
There has been a few interesting stories on the site this week including our second Birmingham Recycled podcast, a 25 minute interview with Chris Unitt about a possible solution to climate change.
So if you haven’t had the chance to catch [...]

Podcast Episode 2: Cquestrate

Chris Unitt from Birmingham, who was involved in the online launch of the Cquestrate project, is talking to the Technology group about a possible solution to climate change.
Cquestrate is the brainchild of Tim Kruger and the idea is broken down into two parts.

First, you heat limestone to a very high temperature, until it breaks down [...]

Weekly roundup and the first podcast

This week was pretty exciting as we released the first of our podcasts. We will release podcasts on a weekly basis every Monday and you can either listen to them here on the site, or subscribe using iTunes or any other feedreader.
Saturday was Earth Hour and I’m happy to say that we got a few [...]

Podcast Episode 1: Waste & Recycling

The Waste & Recycling team; Alice Tidey, Chloe Botting, Rebekah Douglas and Katie Wood discusses carrier bags, littering in the streets and recycling around Birmingham.
A local Asda store advertised that they might start to charge for carrier bags. Some stores are already taking these measures, Alice asks whether it’s a good idea or not.
The team [...]