During a Downing Street press conference with school children on Monday 25 October, Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted he is ‘very worried’ about the upcoming COP26 summit, and banged his fist on the table as he insisted that recycling plastic was a ‘red herring’.
Household waste, used cooking oil and woody biomass could be used in the future to provide off-grid homes and businesses with power, a new report from trade association for the LPG industry Liquid Gas UK has suggested.
An increase in fly-tipping around the UK has led to MPs and councillors calling for a reopening of waste facilities and rubbish tips during the pandemic lockdown, as long as social distancing measures are taken into account.
It’s getting to the time of year when the weather begins to feel warmer (hopefully) and we start seeing longer daylight hours after the winter. That means, for many people, that it’s time to spring clean their homes.