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How Packaging Helps Waste Less Food

Modern packaging helps food stay fresher for longer – both while it’s sat on the shelf at the supermarket, and when you get it home. Think about what happens with a large majority of your food, and you’ll realise that... Continue reading

Reduce Your Waste With Homemade Chocolate Easter Eggs

Homemade Chocolate Easter Egg Can you guess how many chocolate eggs are sold in the UK each year? 90 million eggs—that crazy amount of chocolate sweetness creates up to 3,000 tonnes of extra accumulated waste annually. While the manufactures have succeeded in reducing the... Continue reading

How To Treat Water At Home: 10 Top Water Saving Tips

10-top-water-saving-tips Water As a Natural Resource Being one of the busiest rubbish removal companies in London, Rubbish Please sees how many people are wasting the natural resources without even thinking. It’s true that there’s a finite amount of water no matter... Continue reading

Water Saving Week 2015 – Do You Dare to Accept the Challenge

Water Saving Week 2015 Next week is the national Water Saving Week, an initiative started by Waterwise, to raise the awareness about why do we need to save water and how can we do it. The event kicks off on March 22 and will... Continue reading

Plastic Ocean Waste on the Rise

A recent study has shown that the problem of plastic waste ending up in the ocean is far worse than previously thought. The figures have come about following new calculations made that measure how much waste flows into the oceans... Continue reading

Recycling Could be Made ‘more difficult’ in Islington

islington village sign Recycling could be made ‘more difficult’ as Islington residents face a long walk to get rid of green waste Government funding cuts are hitting hard right across the UK but nowhere is this more apparent than the Borough of Islington.... Continue reading

National Old Stuff Day

old stuffed animal On Old Stuff Day we let go of the burdens of the past and look forward to what new life has to offer us. It is always celebrated on March 2nd and while its origin remains unknown, it is becoming... Continue reading

Interactive Waste Bin Promotes Recycling

Interactive Waste Bin Would you like to know the impact your recycling efforts are having every time you pop a drinks can or plastic bottle into a recycling waste bin? Well now you can! A collaboration between an Abu Dhabi company and the... Continue reading

Pimp My Trash Cart

Pimp My Carroca This week we’re going to put the spotlight on the people who collect recyclable materials for a living, and without who many towns and cities would find their streets littered with junk, rubbish and recyclable waste. What brought their work... Continue reading

The Definitive Guide to Packaging Symbols

Recycling Packaging Symbols Don’t be Bamboozled by Packaging Symbols. Here’s our handy guide. Manufacturers are using an increasing number of symbols on their packaging in order to help the consumer decide what can and can’t be recycled. This is all well and good... Continue reading