Greene King Is The First Pub Company To Achieve The Carbon Trust’s Zero Waste To Landfill Standard

Greene King, the UK’s leading pub retailer and brewer, is announcing on Stop Food Waste Day, it is the first pub company in the UK to achieve the Carbon Trust’s Zero Waste to Landfill Standard. It has achieved this by diverting all its waste from landfill across all waste streams generated by its 1,700 managed pubs – from food waste to kitchen equipment. Greene King partnered with waste management company SWRnewstar in 2013 and distributor Kuehne + Nagel in 2012 and made the commitment to create a waste recycling solution…

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First cycle lane to use ‘plastic’ surface will save a million bags from landfill

Thames Water has re-opened a London cycle route closed for almost a decade while also managing to prevent more than a million plastic bags going to landfill. Working with partner Balfour Beatty, the UK’s largest water company has spent the last 18 months upgrading the Victorian sewers running through the Waterworks Bridge in Stratford. Once this vital work to keep the capital’s sewage network flowing was complete, efforts focused on re-surfacing the route which runs over the bridge and has been shut since work started on regenerating the area for…

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Vanish Survey Shows That Brits Throw Away £12.5 Billion Worth of Clothing Every Year

Wasteful Brits have adopted a ‘throw-away’ culture when it comes to clothes, chucking away £12.5 billion worth of clothing every year, according to research* released today, by Vanish stain remover, as part of their #LoveforLonger campaign. The data found that Brits throw away, on average, eight items a year, each worth approx. £24 – meaning the value of binned clothes amounts to an astonishing £192 a person. But did all of these items really need to head to landfill? Sadly, no. Over 50% of Brits admitted to throwing away perfectly…

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