The British governemtn has been trialling food waste recycling and composting schemes in an attempt to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill, but is it working?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7620109.stm
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Italy’s recent well-publicised break down in waste disposal could be having a knock on effect on one of Italy’s most famous culinary exports; Mozzarella cheese. Traditionally made from buffalo milk, it’s now thought that toxic waste, dumped illegally, has tainted the milk of the buffalos, making the cheese unsafe. The people of Italy are discovering [...]
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There has been some confusion over the level of environmental damage that discarded plastics do to our environment. These links show some of the research that has been going on in the field of marine plastics pollution:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7316441.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6218698.stm
British beaches are littered with plastic:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3672091.stm
And so are those of Hawaii:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6740161.stm
Now many countries are banning flimsy plastic bags in [...]
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