FootprintWire: today’s green links

Posted on August 2nd, 2010 by Hattie Hartman

Green links from the weekend and today’s broadsheets: lots on Boris’ Bikes

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Goodbye to all those black recycling bins

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by sustainability

Footprint is not in the business of promoting individual products but sometimes things come along that are worth sharing - see these underground refuse stores by Portuguese manufacturer Sotkon.

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Pathway To Zero Waste wins £1m boost

Posted on March 30th, 2010 by sustainability

Pathway To Zero Waste (PTZW) has received funding worth £1m from the South East European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Competitiveness Programme.

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Recycling Christmas

Posted on January 5th, 2010 by Hattie Hartman

In London alone an estimated 35 tonnes of Christmas trees are disposed of every year.

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From lorries with love - less is more

Posted on July 8th, 2009 by sustainability

According to yesterday’s Telegraph, waste bin lorries are to be fitted with special computers to catch waste collection offenders. Southampton is the latest city council to buy the computers, with the warning they could be used to report on local occupants. Already between 15 and 20 councils are using the system produced by South Yorkshire-based company Bartec.
With the [...]

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Now you can recycle PET and HDPE plastics, but HOW?

Posted on May 6th, 2009 by Hattie Hartman

According to an article in yesterday’s Telegraph, Dagenham-based Closed Loop sorts plastic supermarket milk cartons and soft drink bottles and recycles them into plastic pellets which are used to make new bottles by the likes of Coca Cola and Marks & Spencer.  According to director Chris Dow, recycling plastic to make a bottle uses about [...]

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More clever marketing from Kingspan

Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Hattie Hartman

Kingspan Access Floors has just launched a new recycling programme so that onsite offcuts from flooring systems (between 2.5 and 5 per cent of net floor area) are returned to the Hull plant for shredding.
This machine separates steel from chipboard. The steel is then recycled, while the chipboard is returned to particle board manufacturer Sonae [...]

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Rubbish sucked away at 50 miles per hour at Wembley

Posted on December 12th, 2008 by sustainability

Envac, a Swedish rubbish system which sucks rubbish through underground vaccum pipes, has been installed by Quintain Estates in the first building of its Wembley City project. This is a first in the UK. Residents separate waste into three categories - organic recyclables, dry recyclables or non-recyclables - in their kitchens and deposit rubbish [...]

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Jestico + Whiles gets to grips with bins

Posted on September 19th, 2008 by sustainability

I met recently with Sian Moxon, Green Team leader at Jestico + Whiles, one of the practices featured in this week’s Green Sky Studios.
J+W is quite far down the path of greening its London office. The practice obtained ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System) four years ago and is measuring environmental impacts year on year. They have opted for deskside [...]

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