The race to zero is on

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env23 founder and Waste2Zero Awards judge John Twitchen analyses the key trends emerging from the annual Waste2Zero awards held on 4 October 2018. Sitting back and pretending it’s okay to carry on with business as usual needs to be called out… so he did. 

Challenge puts wind in kids’ sails

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Think back to the time before Blue Planet II, before omnipresent coverage of the problem of ocean plastic pollution and of the call to action. That’s when the principal of a south coast primary school and club secre­tary of the Queen Mary Sailing Club first started planning what...

Grocery revolution

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Finally… the home straight! env23’s research report for new CIWM President, Margaret Bates, is due for publication shortly. But what’s it all about? The short version: we’re on the cusp of a revolution. The technology available to consumers –...

Make your #pledge4plastics

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env23 is working with the national #pledge4plastics initiative to deliver an engagement campaign on Britain’s best beach, Bournemouth. The home-from-home campaign is reaching directly to locals, day-trippers and holiday makers visiting the world class resort during the...

Be part of the refill revolution

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This has been whirring round our heads for a while, and the last few months have allowed time and space for it to germinate into a fully fledged ‘thing’… Our new venture is now live – refill here is a website and social channels aimed squarely at tackling...

Science of climate

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Where do you stand on climate change? A question you may have been asked, and you may have asked yourself, too. Me? It’s clear changes are occurring and the natural environment is being affected by the very large amounts of CO2 and other stuff we humans pump out at an...

Our common inheritance

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“Mr. Meeks, time to inherit the earth…” The words of John Keating, played by Robin Williams, in Dead Poets Society from BITD (i.e. 1989). A fantastic film, instructive and reflective in so many ways. And today is one that is reflective for me, considering the...

A plastic ocean – watch

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A new feature-length documentary has captured never-before-seen images of marine life, plastic pollution, and its ultimate consequences for human health – A Plastic Ocean. The issues around plastic in our oceans have been building for a few years now, even leading to the...