by Metro Waste | Sep 21, 2020 | All Things London, Recycling & Environmental, Waste management
Following on from our recent post concerning how much waste is produced in the UK each year, this got us wondering about how London might compare with the rest of England when it comes to the recycling of household waste. Well, it didn’t take long to find the... 
by Metro Waste | Aug 24, 2020 | Recycling & Environmental, Waste management
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has produced a report dated March 2020 which gives us a fairly accurate, up-to-date view of how much waste and rubbish is currently being produced in the UK each year. Although most of the latest data is... 
by Metro Waste | Aug 10, 2020 | Recycling & Environmental, Waste management
We’ve previously written several articles (here, here, here and here) about the plethora of global problems caused by our insatiable consumption of plastic in our everday lives. Despite often being cheaper and more convenient than other materials, the persistent... 
by Metro Waste | Jul 3, 2020 | All Things London, Recycling & Environmental
According to a recent article appearing on the Network Rail website, a 6-month trial has recently got underway in late June 2020 that aims to make Victoria Station Britain’s best station for recycling. London Victoria is the 2nd largest station in Britain and... 
by Metro Waste | May 29, 2020 | Recycling & Environmental
With May 2020 set to become the driest May on record ever, the risk of a fire breaking out in one of our skips is more of a possibility. Similarly, fires can easily break out in the countryside too from something as small as a discarded cigarette butt, a used BBQ or... 
by Metro Waste | Apr 23, 2020 | Recycling & Environmental
Although a proportion of the energy that’s made in the UK is generated by incinerating some of our household and business waste, much of it still comes from burning fossil fuels; namely coal. The amount we burn every year continues to decline and this... 