February 10th, 2012

Turtle economic value

Green turtle in Kona 2008

by Chris Sherrington

 

A few days back I came across yet another article claiming that plastic bags really aren’t as bad as they are often made out to be – backed by the authoritative voice of last year’s Environment Agency Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of supermarket carrier bags

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January 16th, 2012

Canning the carbon

by Chris Sherrington

 

During the Christmas break, I left my in-laws’ house in Swansea and drove with my wife and children to Oxwich, on the Gower Peninsula. As I often do, particularly when visiting beaches, I took a bag to pick up any litter. Typically this litter tends to be plastic, but on this occasion our walk took us up through the woods, where I soon filled the bag with discarded aluminium drinks cans.

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