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The West Midlands’ Wildlife
When asked to paint a picture of the west midlands, most people’s palletes would be filled with various shades of grey, colouring in a landscape dominated by cranes, disused factories and one particular monolithic shopping centre. Looking beyond this dismal scene, a recent survey has shown that special efforts being made by West Midland-ians are [...]
Aston University back green scheme for cars.
As mentioned recently on Birmingham Recycled in a post by Emma Williams, Birmingham is one of the leading UK cities aiming to clean up our Co2 emissions and make cars more eco friendly.
Students at Aston University have become involved with a project hoping to develop low carbon emitting transport for the UK.
This project is the biggest [...]
Organic foods bite back.
A recent report published by the Food Standards Agency has left a sour taste in the collective mouths of Birmingham organic food buisnesses. Organic buisnesses have been under enough pressure with the recession, damning reports and comissioned findings such as these are only making the problem for organic food sales a whole lot worse…
The paper published on [...]
Cadbury’s future looking green.
Being one of the largest companies and manufacturer’s in the UK hasn’t made Cadbury forget about or desregard the importance of their carbon and enviromental footprint.
Launching the ‘Purple Goes Green’ initative back in 2007, Cadbury are looking ahead to the future and have set out a series of goals and targets they hope to achieve by [...]
Recycling & Waste Management Exhibition 2009.
From the 15th-17th of September, Birmingham’s very own NEC Arena will host the yearly Recycling & Waste Management Exhibition.
This UK event see’s the biggest players and companies in the waste and recycling field take over the Birmingham arena. Along with hundreds of stalls demonstrating areas of the industry such as products, brands and management technique, there is a [...]
Birmingham has ‘can do’ attitude for workplace recycling.
Birmingham has been specially chosen as the city to launch a new ‘Every Can Counts’ scheme that encourages workers to recycle used drink cans.
This new campaign headed by Advantage West Midlands (www.advantagewm.co.uk) will see Birmingham at the forefront of recycling in national workplace recycling throughout the UK.
Businesses and workplaces throughout the city will be encouraged to recycle used drink [...]
New universal recycling label.
A universal recycling label is to be placed on all packaging in a brand new scheme launched by the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
The new label hopes to put an end to the confusion regarding the countless other different labels used previously across the UK.
The label consists of three sections, stating the product’s likelihood of being [...]
LIDL & Waitrose exposed as worst offenders for excessive packaging.
In a recent survey carried out by the Local Government Association (LGA), it was found that LIDL and Waitrose were the worst supermarket offenders when it came to excessive product packaging.
The LGA report stated that over 40% of packaging found in a typical shopping basket cannot be recycled.
It was found that Waitrose had the most [...]