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Coca Cola’s Recyclometer shows the energy saved by recycling
October 4th, 2012 by Richard Lord
Coca-Cola successfully recycled over ten million plastic bottles from the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. Coca-Cola is focused on increasing the amount of recycled materials in their packaging, and especially focused on recycling PET plastic bottles. In conjunction with WRAP, Coca-Cola have provided a Recyclometer that informs users how much energy is saved by [...]
Avoid double taxation on wines and spirits in Guernsey
December 7th, 2011 by Richard Lord
The States of Guernsey budget for 2011 recommends a five pence tax increase on a 750 ml bottle of wine (5.5% to 15% of alcohol by volume) to bring the total tax per litre to £1.85. The 2011 budget proposes a 34 pence tax increase on a litre of spirit to £10.01 per litre. That [...]
Reuse is saving consumers billions
November 23rd, 2011 by Waste and Resources Action Programme
Buying re-used items like sofas and TVs rather than buying new items is saving UK households around £1 billion a year and helping to create jobs – but this is just a fraction of the potential shown by ground breaking new research from Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP). One million sofas which the current [...]
WRAP’s Recycle Week is from 20 to 26 June 2011
June 6th, 2011 by Events
Recycle Week is an annual event to highlight the many ways we can increase our community’s recycling rate. The States of Guernsey Public Services Department continues to increase the number of items that can be recycled so that our community can breach the 50 percent recycling target set for household waste by the States of [...]
EU survey shows many Europeans don’t know how much they throw away
March 31st, 2011 by European Commission
Almost 60% of EU citizens do not think their household produces too much waste, according to a Eurobarometer survey published on 28 March 2011. This is in stark contrast to statistics that show Europeans throw away on average more than half a tonne of rubbish each every year. The survey also reveals a lack of [...]
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