Sustainability: If we act decisively, good things happen
This is one of those stats that green activists tend to ignore, but last year the UK's carbon emissions fell to levels last seen when...
Waste is a massive economic loss
Feb 27, 2019
I was very taken with this Edie news story about plastic pollution which quotes the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's estimate that $80-120 billion's worth of plastic...
Long term vs short term in Sustainability
Apr 16, 2018
In Sustainability, we talk a lot about lengthening our mental timescales – 'building cathedrals', making products longer lasting etc. And while this is great, we...
Sustainability Masterminds on Waste
Mar 15, 2017
Last week saw the seventeenth – seventeenth, blimey – meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (an amazing...
Waste is a verb, not a noun
Aug 20, 2015
Just saying...
Are millennials really that green?
Jul 1, 2015
I was very struck by the above photo showing the aftermath of the Glastonbury festival. Every year we hear how Glastonbury is more than just...
I am a Wasteman
Apr 29, 2015
I haven't been watching much scheduled TV recently, but I wasn't going to miss the Wastemen documentary on the BBC last night. Not just because...
The Fatberg is the Tip of the Iceberg
Aug 7, 2013
Imagine spending three weeks sluicing away 15 tonnes of congealed fat, wet wipes and 'sanitary items' from a London sewer. A Herculean task if there...
The New Mindset
May 15, 2013
What We Can Learn from Wales’ Waste Win
Dec 5, 2012
Last Thursday I went to the North East Recycling Forum Annual Conference - one of the few events I intend as a punter. This partly...