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Where do supermarket plastic collections really go?

A tiny fraction of plastic packaging returned to supermarkets is being recycled and there is a lack of transparency over where the rest of it ends up. An exclusive investigation for Wicked Leeks.

Ethical business Packaging Plastic Recycling
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Will the real regenerative farmers please stand up?

Climate change Regenerative farming The big interview
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Grains of change

Climate change Biodiversity Regenerative farming Ethical business Farming
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The great green land grab

So-called ‘Green Lairds’ are buying up large swathes of Scotland to reach offsetting goals, threatening farming communities and perpetuating age-old problems of land ownership.

Climate change Biodiversity COP26 Community Farming Net zero
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The rationale of rations

Could equitable access to food be the answer to the cost-of-living and environmental crises? Jack Thompson looks back to the wartime to find out.

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In the ring with Jackson Boxer

The chef behind Brunswick House and Orasay on sustainability by stealth and why the social benefits of a good restaurant are one of its greatest powers.

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Behind closed doors at a sustainable restaurant

Chef Chantelle Nicholson on why sustainability is not just about sourcing and why including the service charge is the best thing she’s done.

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'I started what I thought would be a simple barbecue pop-up last year and thought it would be easy to source everything from close by. I quickly found that it wasn't...'

Slothy Chef on “Can sustainable food feed Britain?”