Plastic festival tents left behind at events account annually for about 900 tonnes of waste today in Britain. Over a third of tents are left at festivals because on the last day people just can’t be bothered to pack them up and take them home. Glastonbury installed recycling bins in 2008 and announced recently it…
Yes, paper straws are ‘recyclable’, but so are paper/plastic laminated cups, cartons, sandwich packs and almost everything, but that does not mean they actually are recycled. The confusion was highlighted this week by a leaked internal McDonald’s communication stating that their paper straws are not currently being recycled and are instead being sent for incineration…
That may we’ll be true, but this bubble might be about to pop. Pringles hit the headlines last week following an exposé by The UK Recycling Association stating that this popular pack is the worst example of packaging making it virtually impossible to recycle. The issue concerns the use of multiple materials, which end up…