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Thoughts from the Kerbside

The Big Wheelie Bin Blog
A thoughtful and sometimes humourous look at the world of waste, brought to you by industry observers. We'd like to create a vibrant blogger community going forward, so if you'd like to become a regular blogger for LAWR, please get in touch - we'd love to hear from you!

Food waste - I'm hungry to recycle! (26/08/2010 13:27:09)

The LAWR news desk seems to have been inundated with stories of different food waste related initiatives lately.

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Litter - it's bugging me! (21/07/2010 14:21:24)

Launching a new advertising campaign this week, Keep Britain Tidy has revealed that the cost of keeping the country's streets clean has soared to a preposterous £858 million a year. The extent of Britain's litter problem is clearly massive but can it be reversed?

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From glass factories to Futuresource (01/07/2010 10:01:44)

As a recent addition to the LAWR team, I thought I should probably introduce myself. I joined as online editor in May and have been frantically writing news stories for lawr.co.uk ever since. I'm still finding my feet in the industry, so please bear with me!

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Talking rubbish (literally) (25/02/2010 12:10:41)

I haven't blogged for a while, apologies for that. But I have been out and about, meeting the movers and shakers in our industry, experts who know far more about the intricacies of waste and resource management than me.

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Landfills - a nuclear option? (21/10/2009 10:23:33)

I must admit I was somewhat floored yesterday when I heard there were plans to dump radioactive waste in landsite sites. Highly toxic news!

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Party politics - is blue the new red? (07/10/2009 15:31:01)

Ahh, the Tory conference. I was looking forward to this one. It's nice to have a bit of straight-talking from Shadow Chancellor George Osborne on how debt-ridden Britain will have to pay its way back into the black. Something that is woefully missing from Alistair Darling's battered little red suitcase.

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The stink around food waste (23/09/2009 14:11:13)

Food waste seems to be flavour of the month when it comes to recycling ... or maybe not. There is still a lot of concern and reluctance among councils to undertake food waste collection trials, despite the financial incentives being offered from WRAP.

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Spellbound? Hardly ... (02/09/2009 11:36:27)

Councils and wheelie bins took another thumping today, this time from hypnotist and self-improvement guru Paul McKenna who was talking on LBC radio this morning.

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Bagging a bright idea (17/07/2009 16:01:26)

It's a shame the leading supermarkets have just missed out on hitting their voluntary targets to cut single-use carrier bags by 2%. The target was 50% and they collectively achieved a 48% reduction - still a figure not to be sniffed at.

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Don't fall asleep over safety (14/07/2009 23:25:10)

As news broke today of a man who fell asleep in a wheelie bin in Brighton and was subsequently crushed to death, the issue of safety comes yet again to the fore to haunt this industry.

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