Do you know how much household waste ends up in landfill and in our oceans? According to a report by the National Audit Office in 2019, more than half of the packaging reported as recycled is sent abroad for processing – with little guarantee it won’t be incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped in the … Read more
Imagine a cellphone that never needs to be recharged or a car battery that lasted long enough for your grandchildren to use it. The claims come from a California-based startup that says it’s cleared significant hurdles in its goal to develop a a battery that could last up to 28,000 years without ever needing a … Read more
A mother claims her toddler is so traumatised by a Pontins ‘holiday from hell’ he cries if she suggested another trip – after discovering a maggot-infested room and an ‘open cesspit filled with human waste’. Julie Bowyer, 38, had booked a week-long break at Pontins’ Camber Sands Holiday Park in Rye, East Sussex, earlier this … Read more
Why I won’t renew my TV licence: Legendary BBC newsreader Jan Leeming, 78, says paying to watch the channels is a ‘waste of money’ after corporation scraps freebie for over-75s Former newsreader Jan Leeming says she will not pay for a TV licence next year Miss Leeming says she watches very little and licence fee is … Read more
Newborn baby’s body is found wrapped up in a purple towel at a Bradford household waste recycling centre A baby was found at Bowling Back Lane wast centre in Bradford, Yorkshire, today The baby which had sadly died was wrapped in a pink Fuerteventura towel Police are appealing for the baby’s mother citing concerns for … Read more
Entire buildings were razed to rubble in Beirut yesterday after a chemical explosion punched through the city and wreaked devastation for miles. The industrial port that provides Lebanon with crucial trade routes was virtually flattened by the blast, which is believed by officials to have been caused at a warehouse storing ammonium nitrate. Sobering scenes … Read more
Even immediate efforts to reduce plastic pollution could leave Earth with 698 million tons (710 million metric tonnes) of waste by 2040, scientists estimate. Immediate and globally coordinated action to limit plastic consumption and waste could reduce the rate of plastic pollution by nearly 80 per cent by 2040. However, even if such a ‘best-case … Read more
Boss claims takeover WILL come good, but Melrose shares plunge as coronavirus lays waste to GKN Critics of Melrose, and the men who run it, will seize on this as evidence of a well-deserved nemesis Chief executive Simon Peckham insists the deal will pay off in the end By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail … Read more
If you’ve been wishing there was a magic solution to cutting down your weekly food bill, the secret might just lie in a food waste-fighting app. Laura Williams, 30, from the West Midlands, who has a three-year-old and another child due in August, managed to get a box of fresh food worth £35 for just … Read more
Lockdown was a waste of time and could kill more than it saved, claims Nobel laureate scientist as he says Neil Ferguson overestimated coronavirus death toll ‘by 10 or 12 times’ Michael Levitt won the shared Nobel prize for chemistry in 2013 for the ‘development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems’ Prof Levitt, of … Read more