Isonomia

by Hattie Parke

On Saturday evenings I cycle to my local Sainsbury’s, trailer in tow, and collect a stack of ‘Taste the Difference’  loaves, bagels, croissants, pastries and other baked goods that happen not to have sold that day and would otherwise end up in bin bags and never be eaten. This stuff isn’t ‘off’ – it’s been baked fresh that morning, but anything that’s unsold by evening is removed to be replaced with fresh goods the next day.

Read more on Put your money where the mouths are…

by the Administrator

Sunday 12^th May 2013 marks the third anniversary of Eric Pickles’ appointment to the role of Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

His time in office has been characterised by an indefatigable dedication to pursuing his own distinctive path through the minefield of local authority waste collection and Mr Pickles has certainly been effective in turning his views into often media friendly policies: his championing of waste reward schemes; his distaste for councils penalising people who don’t comply with the rules on household waste; or his championing of weekly refuse collection through the (rather less than successful) Weekly Collection Support Scheme.

Read more on Having his cake and eating it…

by Dominic Hogg

I had a bit of a shock the other day. I saw an aluminium can in one of our residual waste bins. You might think I’m being a little melodramatic, but in my view, that type of behaviour is not acceptable in a company of which I am the Chairman. It triggered an e-mail to fellow staff at Eunomia to highlight the fact that I was expecting rather more of them than this.

Read more on “No can do” isn’t good enough…

by Peter Jones

Did you enjoy yourself this Christmas? I hope so – but isn’t it strange what enjoying ourselves means? For many of us, enjoying Christmas is all about consumption and excess. We buy and receive generous – even extravagant – gifts. We eat and drink far more than normal. We battle traffic, weather and hordes of other festive travellers, undertaking long journeys to see relations who we may not have visited for months. While we nurse our hangovers, overdrafts and carbon footprints, perhaps it is a good time to reflect on waste, excess and the possibility of doing something about it.

Read more on What kind of waster are you?…

by Phillip Ward

The upside of Eric Pickles’ venture into waste funding is that thanks to the good sense of local authorities not all of the £250m Weekly Collection Support Scheme will be wasted. By my reckoning it will pay for 23 new or extended food waste collections to be introduced and various expansions of recycling services, without any significant return to weekly residual waste collections.

Read more on Pickles puts councils in a jam…