by Metro Waste | Jan 3, 2019 | All Things London, Recycling & Environmental
According to statistics on the OneLessBottle.org website, Londoners guzzle more mineral water from disposable plastic bottles than anywhere else in the country. On average, each of us buys more than three single-use plastic bottles of water every week and, whilst this...
by Metro Waste | Dec 12, 2018 | All Things London, Recycling & Environmental, Waste management
According to a recent report in the Leicester Mercury, huge amounts of London’s rubbish may eventually end up filling a quarry in the Leicestershire countryside once the quarry comes to the end of its productive life. Croft and Huncote Quarry, or Croft Quarry as...
by Metro Waste | Nov 26, 2018 | Recycling & Environmental
If you’ve written out all your Christmas cards and are preparing to pop along to post them in your nearest mailbox, you could find that it’s already bursting at the seams with empty Walkers Crisps packets. Why Crisp Packets? Well, in case you didn’t...
by Metro Waste | Oct 30, 2018 | Recycling & Environmental
Many of us assume that because they’re powered by electricity and not fossil fuel, electric cars are far better for the environment than their gas-guzzling counterparts. However, this common view is now being challenged due to new claims that electric vehicles...
by Metro Waste | Oct 8, 2018 | Recycling & Environmental
We reported back in May of this year that supermarket giant Tesco had announced that it intended to remove “Best Before” dates on some of its fruit and veg products in order to help cut down on the amount of food we waste each year. As of today (Monday 8th...
by Metro Waste | Sep 25, 2018 | Recycling & Environmental
We just had to take a few moments out of our day to write a brief post about this snippet of good news. As the title suggests, the popular discount high street store Lidl has announced that it will no longer be selling any fruit and vegetable items in wasteful black...
