An exciting campaign to improve recycling
I’m Jodie and I’ve been volunteering with BFoE for two years now. I’m currently doing the Birmingham Campaign Course, a course which trains people on how to organise and carry out a campaign. It aims to turn activists into organisers. After a session on picking an...
Help! I want to compost, but don’t have a garden!
Like most people in Birmingham, we don't have a food waste collection and also don't have a garden. This makes composting difficult, almost out of the question. Last autumn, I heard about the Bokashi kitchen composter, so I gave it a go. What is it? It is a relatively...
Two bins are better than one
A good suggestion to capture more recycling at home is to keep a bag or bin in the bathroom for items you can recycle, as well as a rubbish bin. Apparently, much less recyclable waste gets captured from bathrooms than kitchens. This could include plastic bottles,...
Birmingham falls further behind on recycling
Figures for recycling in the year 2015/2016 released by DEFRA show Birmingham City Council to be right at the bottom of the recycling league in England - and going backwards. The shock figure was 22.9% - i.e. less than a quarter being composted or recycled, the...
Coffee Cup Confusion
In Birmingham there are dozens of coffee shops. We are a city swimming in tea and coffee and if we’re not careful we will be swimming in waste as well! A recent exposé into the growing epidemic of binned coffee cups by TV’s Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall revealed that...
A Waste Strategy for Birmingham
Following our petition with 1400 names calling for greater recycling of the city’s waste, Birmingham Friends of the Earth was keen to see the City Council’s latest attempt at a Waste Strategy, which came out this summer. Disappointingly, it did not say what the...