Tag archives for Landfill
Cibus Waste from Food to Fuel
By Dave Young Around 10 million tonnes of waste food is thrown away in the UK every year, much of it going to landfill and thereby creating environmentally harmful greenhouse…
Healing our Soil
Hastings Compost Community are setting up a pilot scheme for local composting. It is inspired by the scheme in Brighton, run by Brighton & Hove Food Partnership which currently has nearly…
Waste, Potholes And Footpaths
For Councillor Dowling, It’s All Good News Without a trace of irony East Sussex County Council has heralded a huge spike in its collection of post-Christmas household waste as a…
Can I Recycle This? Problems With Plastic
By Dave Young Got your kerbside recycling collection sorted? Adapted to the new regime of putting glass in with paper instead of separate containers? Good, because that’s the easy part.…
Hunger In Hastings
Every day food goes to waste in superstores and fast food restaurants, yet people go hungry. In Hastings Dom’s Food Mission matches surplus food to hungry mouths. Ben Bruges finds…
Blame The Cows
Cows are getting a really bad press again. Dramatic rises in levels of methane gas have put ‘farting cow stories’ back in the news. Methane is a big problem in…
Coming Back To Haunt Us
Landfill: potent pollutant, or potential profit? By Dave Young However assiduously HIP’s readers sort their rubbish, some simply cannot currently be recycled and goes to incineration – or more likely…