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We've recently been passed the following news on recycling, which we feel should be publicised.
A recent study found that 20% of what we throw away is paper and card. This means that at least 40,000 ...
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Birmingham Friends of the Earth press release
Embargo: For immediate release, Tuesday 14 June 2011
Contact Joe Peacock 0121 6326909
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. Yo...
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Birmingham currently does not collect food waste, which means that it goes into black bags for weekly collection and causes problems, such as attracting rodents to our streets.
If this were collec...
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PRESS RELEASE
Can Birmingham’s rubbish mountain be cut in half ? Birmingham Friends of the Earth say that this is a realistic target for the city, and that national waste policy should plan for a h...
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What would you do with 350,000 tonnes of rubbish? Burn it?
This is what’s been happening to most of Birmingham’s rubbish. The Tyseley incinerator has been ‘skyfilling’ our rubbish since 19...
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For one Sunday The Moseley Swap Shop branched out, managing to infiltrate the infamous capital of consumerism that is Birmingham Bullring! Set up at the back of C.i.B.* we had a small space, just a co...
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Waste – what is it? It may be a truism to say that waste is simply what gets thrown away, but the make-up of what gets thrown away is often quite revealing. What makes something waste is not n...
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My daughter, Rose, was 10 weeks old when she first asked to use the toilet. I had taken her to the park in her pushchair for an autumnal walk with my husband. Suddenly Rose shouted “A!” an...
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Alongside the Moseley Swap Shop we are running a green spring fare, to welcome the spring after quite a long and snowy winter. So the weather is getting better, the plants are getting greener come and...
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FOEcycle and REUSEDBring to Created in Birmingham shop, The BullringTHE CITY CENTER SWAP SHOPa one off Swap Shop right in the centre of Birmingham on the Sunday the 18th of April 12pm-5pmat Created in...
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Last Saturday was the second Moseley Swap Shop and it was even better than the first! With the weather improving we were able to hold it outside in the garden behind the Prince of Wales this time, whi...
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One man's trash is another man's treasure! At The Moseley Swap Shop
Have you got anything you don't want?
Or do you just fancy some new stuff for FREE?
Then the Moseley Swap Shop is the place...
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With the success of our "Its a wrap" craft groups for alternative Christmas wrapping, Birmingham Friends of the Earth have established a new group called "Happily Ever Crafter" on the 3rd Monday of ev...
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Birmingham FoE has its own crafting group "Happily Ever Crafter" on the third Monday of each month, but it's good to see that there are others appearing round town too. We also have the next Moseley S...
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According to Waste Online, as much as 83 square km of wrapping paper will end up in UK rubbish bins and the total waste wrapping paper the UK produces over Christmas could stretch to the moon if each ...
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