- Packaging
- Plastic
- Recycling
Coke and Walkers top polluting list
A citizen-led audit of beach pollution finds top food and drink brands most common and puts plastic back on agenda as threat to nature and climate.
By Nina Pullman - 11th August 2021
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Recycling
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- Food waste
- Environment & ethics
- Ethical business
Meet the king of food waste
Campaigner Tristram Stuart tells Jack Thompson how his childhood pig taught him the value of food waste and why we should challenge the status quo of overconsumption.
By Jack Thompson - 16th March 2021
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- Fashion & beauty
- Food waste
- Technology
Researchers to convert waste into clothes
A new £5.4m grant will help researchers develop a project transforming fibres from agriculture, household and textile waste into new materials.
By Jack Thompson - 3rd December 2020
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- Plastic
- Recycling
A guide to ethical gift wrap
Choose recycled, make your own or go for something different altogether when choosing your ethical gift wrap for this year's Christmas.
By Becky Blench - 3rd December 2020
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- Grow your own
- Organics
Thinking outside the box
December’s GYO Wicked Leeks column is all about how to put your festive cardboard packaging to good use in the garden.
By Sarah Brown - 1st December 2020
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- Recycling
- Inequality
- Packaging
A crisp packet revolution
Meet the woman upcycling crisp packets into bivvy bags for homeless people, using one of the UK’s least recycled materials for social good.
By Nick Hughes - 6th November 2020
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- Plant-based
- Ethical business
- Farming
The kitchen start-up
George Crossley used lockdown to launch the UK’s first British-grown oat milk out of his own kitchen – now he’s on hiatus as he takes over the family farm to oversee the whole process.
By Nina Pullman - 28th October 2020
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- Plastic
- Ethical business
- Recycling
Cups made from cups
A former Dyson engineer has created the world’s first reusable coffee cup made from takeaways, with plans for the local economy and regional waste collection.
By Nina Pullman - 24th September 2020
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Latest articles
- Dairy
- Climate change
- Biodiversity
Cows and carbon: Can dairy be good for the planet?
Trewithen Dairy in Cornwall is taking part in a new carbon project to monitor and improve their farmers' soils and explore the benefits of regenerative farming.
By Anna Turns - 16th September 2021
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- Eating & drinking
- Eat more veg
Know your autumn squash varieties
Marvellously bright and beautifully varied veg that herald the start of autumn - get to know the different squash varieties and how to use them.
By Wicked Leeks - 16th September 2021
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
Best of the bitter flavours
Although we consume vast amounts of coffee or beer, bitter flavours on our plate are mostly ignored, with little attention given to these vibrant leaves which are not only delicious but also a…
By Becky Blench - 16th September 2021
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- News from the farm
- Climate change
- Biodiversity
Don't let our progress be a fig leaf
Rather than showing that it is possible for businesses to find the solutions to get us out of the mess we are all in, Riverford may be the exception that proves the rule.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 14th September 2021
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- Climate change
- Net zero
- Technology
Turning carbon into rock
Iceland launches world’s largest carbon capture plant to transform CO2 into basalt rock and help speed up climate mitigation.
By Anna Turns - 13th September 2021
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- Inequality
- Mental health
- Food waste
Let’s talk about money
Over summer, requests came in to help people who hadn’t eaten as an extra nine million people increased their borrowing over the pandemic to stay afloat, writes Chantelle Norton of Food in Community.
By Chantelle Norton - 13th September 2021
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