Put abandoned Christmas trees to good use : Turn them into paint and food sweeteners!
Every year, thousands of Christmas trees are abandoned once the festive season gets over. Most of them find their way to the landfills, where their leaves (pine needles) take much more time to decompose as compared to other leaves. Now Cynthia Kartey, a PhD student from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has found that useful products can be made from the...
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Members of this Muslim Youth Association took to streets early morning for New Year’s Day clean-up
When a majority of New Year’s revelers were still in bed after night-long celebrations, over 1,000 young members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) in the UK were hosting a special new year prayer early in the morning after which they set off to clean up the aftermath of the previous night’s partying, garbage bags in their hands. “From Luton to London, Glasgow to Guilford, Cardiff to Croydon,...
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UK makes producers pay the cost of collecting and recycling packaging
The UK government has adopted a new strategy under which the producers and retailers of packaging shall be forced to pay the cost of collecting and recycling it. The motto behind the move is to “make the polluter pay”. The new mandate aims to: Introduce a tax on single use plastic with less than 30% recycled content. Consider banning plastic packaging where there are alternatives. Legislate to allow...
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