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Charities hope for latest U-turn on donations
Conservative MP says ministers also preparing to stop tax relief limits on philantrophy after recent reversal on 'pasty tax'Hopes have been raised that the government will back down on controversial...
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Sustainable development flourishing in Wales's green economy
It has a constitution enshrining sustainability, it taxes plastic bags – and its National Trust may win an award for halving energy useWales is fast becoming Europe's testbed for sustainable...
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M&S becomes 'carbon neutral'
First major UK retailer to meet its sustainability targets says results show there is also a strong business case for going greenM&S has become the first major UK retailer to become fully 'carbon...
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Welsh recycling rates hit 48%
Figures show almost half of Wales's municipal waste was recycled or composted in 2011-12, ahead of the rest of the UKWales is surging ahead of the rest of the UK on recycling rates as it bids to become...
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Beijing introduces recycling banks that pay subway credits for bottles
Recycling firm hopes to improve profits by bypassing informal network of bottle collectorsBeijing's vast army of plastic-bottle scavengers will get an automated rival later this month, when the city...
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Unused clothing worth £30bn, report finds
British consumers have an estimated 1.7bn items of clothing left hanging unused in wardrobes for at least a yearBritish consumers have an estimated £30bn worth of clothing that they have not worn for a...
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Live Q&A: Soc ent recyclers – tell the world how you did it, 13 July, 1200 -...
Join us on Friday 13 July to find out from our expert panel how to run a successful recycling social enterpriseRecycling goods – and reselling them – is a popular form of social enterprise. It can...
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Best bits: Social enterprise recyclers
All you need to know from the experts in our recent live Q&A on social enterprise and recyclingNikki DiGiovanni - national co-ordinator, ScrapstoresUKKnow your waste: It is important to note that...
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London Olympic Park's 10,000 toilets and one unique challenge
Leaner, greener and cleaner could be London 2012's motto as sustainability and ecology are pushed to the forefrontAs befits someone who began his career as an ecologist studying tortoises, David Stubbs...
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Consortium plans £520m bid for Biffa
Waste management group Biffa is target of a £520m offer from consortium including Chinook Urban Mining and JP MorganA consortium has made a £520m cash offer for Biffa, the debt-laden waste management...
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Call for urgent action over burning and throwing valuable materials in landfill
Government urged to impose bans to stop waste of natural resources as survey finds UK dumps materials worth £650mAt least £650m worth of valuable materials are being thrown into landfill or burned in...
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Hundreds of tents abandoned at Leeds Festival will be scavenged for those in...
It's sobering what the Bank Holiday music crowds leave behind. But it doesn't get thrown awayThe aftermath of English summer festivals can look like a cross between a battlefield and a raggedy camping...
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Ethical living: what was the environmental cost of the Olympics?
I shudder to think of the resources used to produce the London 2012 Olympics. How bad was it?It might have been billed the One Planet Olympics, but the Games were always going to be in a different...
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Leeds Festival scavengers have 72 pairs of wellies for sale, and hundreds...
The Big Scavenge continues today, as the throwaway society does its stuff on the muddy fields of Bramham ParkLast week the Guardian Northerner brought you news of the startling number of tents...
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From organic veg to solar panels - one school's eco journey
Phoebe Doyle speaks to a primary school that's organically cultivating green-fingered pupils and a environmentally-friendly ethosAt Little Kingshill Combined Primary School in Buckinghamshire they're...
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Eyes wide open
The sorry state of make-up packagingThe dilemma Years ago I used refillable tubes of mascara. Then this product disappeared – I assume the company realised it could make more money selling a...
View ArticleSurviving off rubbish in Kenya's slums – in pictures
Thousands of Nairobi's slum dwellers daily risk their lives sifting rubbish on the biggest dump in KenyaClar Ni Chonghaile
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Kenyan rubbish dump offers little money for much misery | Clar Ni Chonghaile
Campaigners want to close a dump in Nairobi that spreads disease, but thousands of scavengers rely on it for survivalA man with a sack slung over his shoulder trudges up a mountain of rotting rubbish,...
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Sainsbury's boss welcomes grilling on green values and ambitions
Justin King to tell business and sustainability leaders direction makes commercial as well as ethical sense despite City nervesJustin King will on Monday underline Sainsbury's determination to become...
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Plan to build UK's first building entirely out of waste
Grand Designs' model ecohouse to be rebuilt in Brighton city centre using local construction and industrial wasteThe UK's first building to be made onsite entirely out of waste is to be built in...
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