Avoca-DOH! Our slightly sarcastic listicle shows you which products to avoid, and how to shop better. British households are wasting millions of pounds every year because they’ve bought fresh products which have gone bad by the time they get round to eating them. According to one British food waste and recycling company, it doesn’t have […]
Charity shop treasure…or just trash? Is your donation worth a fortune, or is it costing charities to get rid of your rubbish? Donating unwanted items to charity is a great way to support well-deserved causes while having a clear out, but is your unloved junk even making it to the shop floor? The waste collection […]
The greenest cities in the world (and the least) – which international cities top the list for recycling and which don’t make the grade The need for recycling has, by now, been fairly well cemented into the minds of the general public. Citizens the world over are aware of what can and cannot be given […]
According to a recent study by the Office for National Statistics, around 14.9% of adults in the UK consider themselves to be smokers, meaning that the safe disposal of cigarette butts and similar was products is vital if we want to protect the planet for future generations. While the safe disposal of cigarette waste lies […]
Only 1 in 50 clean their bins – Britain’s stinky streets That’s wheelie grim Shocking results of a survey by a waste collection company show that just 1 in 50 – that’s 2% – of all people regularly clean their wheelie bins – leaving unsavoury bacteria to multiply. Our household bins aren’t often given much thought, it […]
Time to clean up our makeup habits We’re flushing away or binning an astonishing 11 billion wet wipes every year which can take up to 100 years to biodegrade. BusinessWaste.co.uk, waste management specialists, are concerned about the volume of waste being created by the number of makeup wipes and says that women and men across […]
We crumple them, shove them in coat pockets and find them forgotten in shopping bags every day – the humble receipt may not seem like a big problem, but waste collection company BusineseWaste.co.uk says paper receipts should be banned to stop them heading to landfill. Over 11.2 billion paper till receipts are printed each year […]
For when you want to sesh with the squad but still respect the environment Want to have a drink AND do something good for the environment? While celebrating the hideous goo you find at the bottom of bins? Boy, have you come to the right place, because two of the UK’s leading waste collection experts […]
Why not switch to a plastic-free alternative? Enough plastic waste to circle the globe twice is the annual result of us cleaning our teeth with toothpaste from tubes that can’t be recycled. With the global toothpaste industry worth tens of billions per year, one waste and recycling company thinks it’s high time its house was […]
Plastic Resin Identification Codes There are several different types of plastic, and some facilities will require the plastic to be separated before collection. This is due to the fact that each type of plastic is processed and recycled in a slightly different way. These are the different plastic resin identification codes and symbols: Code 1: […]
Published 7th January 2022 by Mark Hall. Last modified 9th June 2026