Waste not want not!

The pace is stepping up in the process of Essex County councils plans to incinerate the bulk of the black bag waste here in Essex. This would be disastrous for future progress towards more recycling (which the world will be desperate for as resources dwindle and Co2 rises) The elephant in the room however is over 80% of waste which comes from commercial sources and which is often not recycled even when it would be easy to do so. Currently what happens to commercial waste is not the responsibility of local councils (crazy, why!!) and the government seems to give it little attention. This is not a rational position and we need to campaign on it whenever possible.

Conspiracy to hide Peak oil exposed!

Another step in the chipping away of denial of peak oil was made public by the guardian see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/09/peak-oil-international-energy-agency
and another good site and report (if you can do the work to understand it!)
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/50677

Good luck and keep wearing the sweaters!

Sad day for Talkwood

Talkwood is an enterprise consisting two parts: Talkwood recycling is a new business taking pallets which would have been land filled and turning them into kindling for sale on garage forecourts. The other part of the business is an allotment where flowers and vegetables are grown for sale to the public.   Their workforce is mostly people who might find it difficult to find employment elsewhere. Talkwood has been funded by the mental health Services. The funding has run out and the business must close after less than a year.  On the face of it they are very successful .  They are finding loads of businesses which will pay to have their waste wood taken away.  They have a market for their product.  They are reducing land fill (something the government and council are committed to do) and they are reducing CO2 emissions by providing people with waste wood to burn instead of fossil fuel based firelighters.  Surely the small amount of funding they need to keep them going till their business is profitable can be found by one of the parties interested in any of the objectives met by the list above!!