31 March, 2016
Reports show that in the North of England the levels of rubbish sent to landfill has been slashed from 66% in 2010 to just 3% over the past year.
A lot of this achievement can be tracked back to an energy-from- waste treatment facility in Tesside that opened in April 2014. 67,000 of 77,000 tonnes of waste collected across South Tyneside was from households and the remaining waste was collected from other sources including commercial services. The facility is a vital part to a £20 million Strategic Waste Partnership between South Tyneside, Gateshead and Sunderland councils.
Residents can recycle their recyclable materials such as paper, bottles, cans and plastic packaging with the blue bins that are provided by the councils or caddy collection service which is collected from people’s doorsteps.
It has been said by Councillor Tracey Dixon who is the lead member for area management and community safety at South Tyneside Council, said: “We are delighted that the amount of waste sent to landfill has been reduced so dramatically and that we are seeing more and more recyclables collected from the doorstep across South Tyneside.
Need to do your bit? Our local recycling services include:
Waste Removal Wapping
Waste Collection Wanstead
19 March, 2016
It has been announced by Tesco that a new commitment to zero food waste has been launched on Friday with a number of other grocers backing and joining to support food poverty charity FareShare.
The scheme has rolled out in 15 areas across the UK this week such as Manchester, Birmingham, Portsmouth and Southampton, it will also be rolling out also to Leeds, Kent, West Midlands and Leicester in the coming months.
This scheme will reach all large Tesco stores by the end of 2016 and all other stores by the end of 2017.
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10 March, 2016
Denmark has opened a food waste supermarket that has shown a huge success with items of cut-price surplus produce. It is one of the first of its kind in the whole of Europe and its opening day was a great success as sales surpassed expectations.
WeFood is a food waste supermarket, the first of its kind in the Scandinavian capital Copenhagen. The supermarket sells at products priced 30-50% cheaper than your local supermarket, the produce they sell is past its sell by date but is still perfectly edible.
WeFood differentiates itself from other social supermarkets, targeting not only low income shoppers but also anyone who is concerned about the amount of food waste produced. The spokesman for Folkekirkens Nodhjaelp who is the NGO behind the idea said that this is a fantastic idea and goes to show that people want to buy this type of produce. He also said that many people see this as a positive and politically correct way to fight against food waste in Denmark.
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5 March, 2016
We all have kitchen and garden waste that we throw away, well did you know that you can turn that into crumbly compost. It may be one of the most satisfying things you do if you are a keen gardener.
Francine Raymond who loves gardening has a few easy steps to help you make your compost. To start with, she first built a dead hedge out of sight in the gap between a fence and compost heaps where branches that are too small to burn or too large to compost can rot away slowly.
She then had a row of pallet bays where the large waste that is between the green and brown matter decomposes slowly throughout the year, which is enriched and activated with chicken manure and bedding. This is all beside a pile of sodden cardboard and a bag of wood ash between a couple of builders bags: one full of gently composting leaves, the other crammed with rotting woodchip and sawdust from the tree surgeon’s visits.
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