Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …
The très moderne, aspirational developer styled Wembley City – a hyper smart new estate in the making of 4200 homes around the infamous Stadium – has applied smart Jetsonesque Swedish thinking to the issue of dealing with rubbish in dense urban housing builds, installing a …
Why, it’s Mr Recycle More, of course. Tower Hamlets’ answer to Wall-E hit the streets of Spitalfields yesterday to preach the green gospel. If we’ve learned anything from the movies, he’s sure to go bad, overthrow his masters and smash up the controversial market development …
A new recycling plan throughout Tower Hamlets is resulting in less rubbish at Whitechapel Market. The new scheme is allowing market traders to divide their waste into organic matter — think produce and the less tasty bits of animals — and dry recyclables such as …
Wheelie bin crisis? Blame the French. That’s what Lewisham is doing, claiming that a fire in France is responsible for a severe worldwide shortage that has also blighted local homeowners. Councillors in the southeast London borough have hit upon an ingenious solution – they’re asking …
In order to arrive at its current policy of green box and brown box recycling collections alongside normal rubbish, Islington Council had to do its homework and weigh the options. What more sensible way of doing this than sifting through samples of household rubbish to …
The all-new, caring, sharing, environmentally sound Tory party wants us to live with the same spirit as their very own bumptious leader, all biking to work and wind turbines and eco-harmony. To that end they’ve announced households could be paid for recycling their rubbish under …
Pity the poor residents of Southgate Road, N1. With half the street in Islington, the other bound to Hackney how are they meant to know if they’re coming or going, let alone which day what rubbish collection is? For it seems that living here is …
A small Camden charity, Hare Krishna Food for All, was named Novelis Community Recycing Project of the year at The Resource Awards last week. We hadn’t heard of them before today but nosing around their website we’re really rather in awe of their humanitarian and …
Love London is a “green-up” festival packed with 3 weeks of “eco-events’. We mentioned the Green Tours last week but there’s much much more going on, starting with the Recycled Sculpture Show at ZSL which hosted the launch of the festival last Thursday. Previously lumbered …
Just a week after we were all taken aback that work on the Olympic stadium had begun ahead of schedule, its fate is being discussed with potential hosts of the next Games and the idea mooted to recycle its seats for reuse in 2016. It …
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