Waste & Recycling | Birmingham Friends of the Earth

Recycling Food Waste – why not just do it ourselves?

by Admin | Dec 5, 2019 | Blog, Waste & Recycling

By Federico Pettinella from Birmingham Eco Food waste recycling has a myriad of environmental benefits and can be done in various ways, from the household to the industrial scale. Anaerobic digestion (the breakdown of organic matter in the absense of oxygen) and...

All Saints Kings Heath Youth Group

by Admin | Dec 5, 2019 | Blog, Blog, Energy And Climate Change, Waste & Recycling

Over the summer period at All Saints we did a series of weekly events around the theme of Climate Change. We started by creating EcoBricks; stuffing single use plastics into 2 litre bottles. We are going to use them to make stools and furniture for use in the youth...

My first experience going zero-waste shopping

by Admin | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog, Waste & Recycling

Have you heard of zero-waste supermarkets? A growing number of these establishments are providing practical solutions to the problem of packaging waste. Supermarket food packaging is largely unrecyclable, meaning the majority of it ends up in landfills or...

Plastics campaign Spring update

by Jodie Etheridge | Jul 8, 2019 | Waste & Recycling

It has been a busy few months working on our plastics campaign. We have been campaigning for the Commonwealth Games, which are coming to Birmingham in 2022, to be plastic-free. At our annual campaign planning day in early March, the group voted to continue with this...

Launch of Greener Birmingham – The Big Green Conversation

by Admin | Jun 18, 2019 | Biodiversity, News & Events, Waste & Recycling

On Thursday 4th of April, the Greener Birmingham coalition launched the ‘The Big Green Conversation’ as part of Birmingham’s Green Year of Action. The Big Green Conversation is a way for the people of Birmingham to actively help to decide what kind of city they...

The Tysley Incinerator

by Shaz Rahman | Feb 13, 2019 | Air Quality, News, Waste & Recycling

The Tysley Incinerator – Shaz Rahman A new report from the ‘United Kingdom Without Incineration Report (UKWIN)’ organisation has stated the considerable downsides to incineration as a way of producing electricity. The report is available on their website:...