by Amanda Drollinger, AWC Central Scotland
The world is changing, and reducing our individual waste is critical for each of us. This includes newborn babies. They don’t know they
Amanda’s daughter, Rivaare causing the production of huge amounts of non-recyclable waste just by wearing disposable diapers. Luckily, the solution already exists and has improved in recent years to be very easy...
Plastic waste. It’s everywhere – from the depths of the oceans to the peaks of mountains. Even before COVID-19, the volume of plastic per day going into the ocean by weight was equivalent to 90 aircraft carriers. This is the speed at which we are destroying the ocean. According to UN Secretary-General António Guterres,
Palm oil is found in almost everything we use or eat every day. It is in day-to-day items where you wouldn’t even think to look for it, but there it is anyway – cookies, pizza, shampoo, soap, margarine, biofuel, cooking oil, peanut butter, washing detergent, chocolate, ice cream and even lipstick. And the list...
The recent COVID-19 crisis was only a couple of weeks old when the media began reporting one unexpected positive effect. Worldwide greenhouse gas emissions were markedly reduced and the atmosphere less polluted as a result. As well as being good news in itself, this was an inkling that the corona crisis and the climate crisis are linked. Recognition...