I am a Plogger!

I just discovered that Plogging is a thing. When I go out for my morning jog I often find discarded drinks bottles and cans, and as I’m returning along the road that leads to my house I will pick these up and put them in my plastics recycling box; it bothers me to see litter, especially on my street and while the council do send out litter pickers I’m not sure they target my road, and I’d rather not ignore it in the hope it will disappear on its own while in the meantime acting like kibble and leading others to believe tossing stuff out of a car window is okay… it’s not. [Continue reading...]

A Greener Ride

A few years ago when I cycled up and around Scotland from my home in Wales, UK I was (or certainly became) conscious of a few environmental issues, such as deforestation, which felt beyond my control, and recycling, which was within my control.

Cycling and camping each day meant I was constantly buying food and generally only for a meal at a time; no bulk-buying with potentially less packaging. With each purchase from a supermarket (or heaven forbid, a takeaway) there would be some packaging to dispose of, from a plastic milk carton for my daily doses of porridge, to “paper” sandwich cartons.  [Continue Reading...]

More on Plastic, with Richard Thompson

This week I caught the bulk of a topic on Radio 4 regarding Plastic pollution with Richard Thompson. Thompson is a Professor of Marine Biology, “his work on plastics in cosmetics led to a UK ban on micro-beads in shower gels and exfoliating scrubs [something I have blogged about before]. And he advised government to ban single use plastic bags from supermarkets.” [Continue reading]

Passing the Environmental Buck

A few weeks ago the UK were proudly announcing that they were no longer burning coal in power stations. On the face of it this was good environmental news, a sign that we’re moving away from using such fossil fuels for our daily energy needs, for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, and instead turning to renewables and greener forms of energy such as solar and wind. [Click here to continue reading]