Falmouth Garden Centre wants your empty crisp packets
Falmouth Garden Centre has become one of the first drop-off points in Falmouth to offer crisp packet recycling for the public. This comes almost a year since Falmouth became the third town in Cornwall to be awarded with the ‘plastic-free’ status. The garden centre,...
Polar Bear cubs bring important message to Plymouth
This winter, 20 life-size polar bear cubs have arrived in Plymouth, to raise awareness about the plastic pollution issue in the Arctic. The Polar Bear explorer trail is a project between Plymouth Waterfront Partnership and the National Marine Aquarium. People can take...
Should the uk ban pet adoption in the run up to Christmas?
This year Pet shelters in Germany temporarily banned adoptions in the lead up to Christmas. This is to stop any plans to give an animal for Christmas and to reiterate a dog is for life, not just for Christmas. Claudia Hämmerling from Berlin’s animal protection...
How eco-friendly is your Christmas?
Most of us like to indulge and go all out at Christmas time and why not, it only comes round once a year, but while we’re feeling festive, our planet is suffering. Christmas creates 30% more waste than normal. So how environmentally friendly is your Christmas and how...
A Plymouth institution fights for survival
With a fresh round of Brexit voting threatening the horizon, another local success story faces a tough bought of trouble in trying to stay afloat the rough funding waters. The Plymouth Amateur Rowing Club (PARC) has been based on the river Plym since 1947 and has been...
Student’s dismay, over no Q&A
The last open day of 2018 hasn’t been met with the beautiful weather Plymouth is known and loved for. Instead, Storm Diana has swept the campus, leaving many of the courses Q&A sessions low on attendees. I caught up with third year Harry Richardson, a...
Midday News Roundup
Sydney has had its average monthly rainfall in just two hours on Wednesday, according to meteorologists. Authorities said at least 11 people have so far been rescued from vehicles trapped in flood waters and one man has reportedly died in a car accident linked to the...
Drowning (in plastic) at MVV Devonport Energy from Waste
The mindful reduce, reuse, recycle phrase is well known in the UK and environmentally sensitive packaging is becoming increasingly more accessible; especially for independent businesses determined to promote minimizing single use waste. However, for those of us who...
Keeping Recyclable Materials Out Of The Fire
Plymouth’s MVV Energy from Waste facility urge that incineration of plastic should not be an alternative to recycling when dealing with the UK’s overflow of recyclable waste. After China announced a ban on surplus plastic exports from the UK in January, some councils...