Category Archives: Recycling
Greens should keep their powder dry: Brussels doesn’t always know best
This post is by Matthew Farrow, director of policy at the Environmental Services Association, writing in a personal capacity. I recently attended a judicial review hearing for the first time. The subject was Defra’s interpretation of certain parts of the … Continue reading
Why we’d be mad to leave the EU (hint: the public quite likes clean beaches)
This is a guest post by Caroline Jackson, former MEP and chairman of the European Parliament environment committee from 1999-2004. “We need to examine whether the balance is right in so many areas where the European Union has legislated, including on … Continue reading
The circular economy: big in Japan
This post is by Jonny Hazell, policy assistant on our Resource Stewardship theme. When it comes to the ways in which stuff is made, consumed, and disposed of, there’s a lot the UK could learn from Japan. Japanese recycling rates are … Continue reading
Which raw materials pose the biggest business risk?
I wrote about Chatham House’s report on resource futures last month, which provides a detailed and comprehensive look at how underlying environmental stress contributes to material insecurity. Green Alliance’s contention is that addressing material insecurity means tackling the underlying environmental … Continue reading
How creating pop-up cafes and homework clubs can encourage people to save energy
This post is by Green Alliance policy assistant Jonny Hazell, who worked on Waste Watch’s Our Common Place project, which has recently published a report on its first year. Waste Watch’s Our Common Place programme emerged from the simple idea … Continue reading
Towering ambitions: bringing sustainable living to high rise homes
This post is based on our new report Towering ambitions, which is launched today. There are around 390,000 flats in high rise blocks in England, and they weren’t designed for low carbon living. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be … Continue reading
Making the circular economy a reality
This post is by Green Alliance associate Julie Hill. We held the final meeting of our Designing Out Waste business consortium last week. In the words of one of the companies, with this work we ‘led the debate from designing … Continue reading
Hyper-local, visible action is key to encouraging green living
This is a guest post by Oliver Payne, an advertising professional who founded the behavioural communications agency The Hunting Dynasty, and wrote Inspiring Sustainable Behaviour: 19 Ways To Ask For Change Talk to any communications specialist and they’ll tell you how important … Continue reading
Why wasteful design still dominates, despite alternatives
This is a guest post by Tracey Rawling Church, director of brand and reputation at Kyocera Mita UK Of all the innovations of the computer age, the laser printer is probably the most inherently wasteful. This ubiquitous device is the … Continue reading
Some companies are leading the way to a circular economy – government needs to ensure the rest follow
An earlier version of this article was published on Guardian Sustainable Business. The world is facing a resource crunch and businesses need leadership from government to encourage innovation around sustainable methods of production. This week business secretary Vince Cable made a keynote … Continue reading
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