- Plastic
- Packaging
- Environment & ethics
The UK's dirty plastic secret
How the UK’s failure to stop plastic waste exports is leading to dangerous environmental impacts and illegal disposal in Malaysian communities.
By Megan Tatum - 12th May 2021
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- Food waste
- Environment & ethics
A culture war on food waste
China has launched a major new attack on food waste using the power of influencers on public perception – but are there lessons for the UK in our own food waste battle?
By Megan Tatum - 5th February 2021
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- Technology
- Ethical business
Pipe dreams
What if your groceries and parcels arrived via a vast underground network of pipes, hurtling toward you on a magnetic wave? Megan Tatum investigates the green deliveries of the future.
By Megan Tatum - 20th December 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Biodiversity
- Ethical business
Battle of the oils
The palm oil industry is notorious for causing deforestation, but would switching to coconut be a better alternative? Megan Tatum reports from Malaysia.
By Megan Tatum - 28th October 2020
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- Packaging
- Plastic
Did Covid-19 kill the zero waste shop?
Social distancing and the need for greater hygiene have forced zero-waste shops to rethink their whole concept. But will our trust in unpackaged items return post-Covid?
By Megan Tatum - 25th June 2020
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- Dairy
- Farming
- Price
Spilt milk: Covid-19 and dairy
Covid-19 has sent milk prices tumbling and caused public shock at wasted milk, but the crisis in dairy is much more long-term.
By Megan Tatum - 26th April 2020
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Latest articles
- Recipes
- Eating & drinking
Top five recipes for broad beans
From fritters, to the perfect bruschetta, or warm summer salads with fresh herbs - read our top five recipes for broad beans.
By Kirsty Hale - 22nd June 2021
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- Farming
- Biodiversity
Clarkson’s Farm: A new audience for farming
By turns entertaining, silly and serious, Clarkson’s real achievements are bringing the low-earning reality of British farming to the mainstream and spotlighting the biodiversity crisis, finds Emily…
By Emily Muddeman - 22nd June 2021
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- The big interview
- Eating & drinking
- Local sourcing
For the love of food
Honey & Co’s Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich are the ultimate foodie travellers, telling Nina Pullman about the joy of hyper seasonal eating and how to find where the locals eat.
By Nina Pullman - 17th June 2021
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
How to celebrate the Veg New Year
After months of eating hardy winter veg propped up by colourful additions from the continent, it’s an absolute joy to be eating fresh and local again.
By James Evans - 17th June 2021
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- News from the farm
A samphire start to summer
Every year we worry that the annual samphire will be out-competed by salt-tolerant perennials like sea purslane, but there seems to be just enough movement of the mud to keep the habitat open.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 16th June 2021
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- Plastic
- Packaging
- Ethical business
Why we need to become a refill nation
Alongside the opportunity to shop via refills, we also need to work on our own mindset. Surely the minor inconvenience of taking containers with us is a worthy price to pay to help cut plastic?
By Becky Blench - 16th June 2021
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