The pandemic saw a real surge in gardening as a popular pastime, with us all spending so much more time at home than we did before and, no doubt, you all really felt a difference to your mental and emotional health and wellbeing by connecting more with nature and helping plants flourish and grow.
If you’ve just moved to a new home with a very overgrown garden, you’re probably itching to get it looking spruce and shipshape in time for summer. Maybe you have an exciting new landscape project, or you need a land clearance to make way for an extension. Whatever your reason, here’s a few things to bear in mind.
Major renovations and construction projects are incredibly important and rewarding, but to start any building work, you need to get rid of anything currently erected on the land you plan to build on.
A petition launched by a nine-year old, calling for a ban on shipments of plastic waste to developing countries, has gained over 70,000 signatures in less than a week, according to a report in the Guardian. The schoolgirl, identified only as Lizzie A, decided to start the petition after studying plastic pollution at school.
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.
A new report has suggested that diverting the 27.5 million tonnes of non-recyclable waste that the UK creates each year for green heat could help support over half a million homes come the year 2030, as well as avoiding four million tonnes of carbon emissions over the next ten years.
In 2019, a record 53.6 million tonnes of electronic waste was generated worldwide, which according to the United Nation’s Global E-Waste Monitor 2020 is up by 21 per cent in the last five years.
We all know that when we create waste of any kind, it needs to be disposed of properly, whether that’s using council bins outside your house, by hiring a domestic waste clearance company to come and help out or by going to your local recycling centre to dispose of it yourself responsibly.
There has been a significant surge in the amount of aluminium packaging collected for recycling in the UK in May.
Households have been issued a warning by the Environment Agency to be vigilant so as to prevent themselves from falling victim to waste crime during lockdown, which can cause serious environmental pollution, undermines legitimate business and which costs the economy £600 million each year.