Rubbish and litter is an inevitability. Everybody accumulates waste and rubbish that has to be disposed of. The average person in the United Kingdom disposes of over 5 kilos of rubbish a week in their rubbish bin – a quarter of a tonne a year. All that waste has to go somewhere too. It is [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Bins for Business – Choosing the Right Waste Bins
Waste is a key part of any business -whilst reducing waste can help increase profitability – it can never be totally eliminated and all businesses have to deal cope with waste management. Rubbish and waste in some businesses is often minimal and requires little more thought than the removal of rubbish from our homes does. [...]
Picking up after Students – Bins for Local Authorities
There has been quite a bit of bad press about the littering caused by students in some university towns. And in many areas where residents live in local proximity to local schools, college or universities, littering is a cause for tension between the local community and the educational establishment. The problem with litter around education [...]
Hotel Rubbish
While I have stayed in many rubbish hotels, I have yet to stay in one made from rubbish. Yet, environmental campaigners in Rome have done just that. To raise awareness of pollution the campaigners have constructed a temporary hotel made nearly completely from rubbish. Complete with five rooms and a reception it is lined with [...]
Parks and Open Spaces – Litter Bins
Britain has the largest number of public parks and open spaces than any other country in Europe. There are dozens of urban parklands in many of our major cities and conurbations. However, as pleasurable as these urban natural oasis are they are expensive to maintain. Councils and local authorities have to invest huge amounts of [...]
