Electric cars save carbon dioxide emissions over their lifetime. There are a significant number of fossil fuel producers and combustion engine car produces who will fudge their numbers and suggest...
Recycling
Recycling is an essential part of reducing our impact on the natural world. How is that going? Which countries are best? Is it being done in a sensible way?
These are all questions which, at various times, I have asked (perhaps more of the UK government) and often found them wanting. Anyway, below is a list of all articles that have been written which include a mention of this subject.
Shell is once again backing off from a pledge
Increasingly, it seems Shell is a company which repeatedly makes pledges when the light is on them, and then backs away, when no one is looking any more.
In the...
Glass is capable of being endlessly recycled – but some countries are better than others
Making new glass from cutlet (small glass pieces) saves significant energy. This is partly because it needs a lower temperature to melt. While it is true that much of the...
The UK sorts our rubbish at higher rates than anywhere else in the world, so why is so much being incinerated
In the UK we have incredibly stringent rules on recycling. Indeed, there are regular suggestions about giving people smaller bins so that we send less rubbish to the dump.
If...
Super enzyme that eats plastic, now 6 times faster
I have written in the past, about a discovery made on a Japanese dump back in 2016 of a plastic eating enzyme. By working in the lab, scientists have been...
Adjustments made have allowed bacteria that eats plastic bottles to do so 6 times faster than naturally
I have written in the past about a fascinating type of bacteria that was found on a Chinese rubbish stump number of years ago.
Plastics are a fantastic material because...
Ice (internal combustion engine)car producers have claimed electric cars are as dirty, recent fair analysis suggest full life emissions are 300% more in combustion engine cars
The UK transport and environment department have created a tool to help do the check for people. Unlike the ice assessment which calculates the carbon cost of making the electric...
