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 triumph of environmental protection: 4,695 tonnes of recycling – “the…
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. What continues to bewilder many HIP readers is plastics, not…
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 out ; Dom Warren, founder of Dom’s Food Mission, is…
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 terms of climate change. It’s 84 times more potent than…
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 landfill. Brits have been dumping stuff into holes in the…