Our position on developments with the incinerator
Birmingham Friends of the Earth is shocked to hear that a new contract to feed and to operate to 2034 the Council’s rubbish incinerator at Tyseley has been advertised, using ‘officers delegated authority’. This seems to us to ignore the Climate Emergency with its zero...When Less is More – Birmingham communities coming together over good food in 2020
There is so much waste, especially food waste, that goes to landfill. In fact, 1.9 million tonnes of food is wasted by the food industry every year in the UK. On top of this, farmers are using chemicals which affect our health to produce large quantities of food, many...plastic free Commonwealth games survey
Thank you for taking the time to fill in our short survey on plastic waste at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The purpose of this survey is to gather opinions from the general public to help inform our campaign, which aims to have zero plastic waste from single-use food...
Don’t Lose Your Bottle campaign update
For those of you who don’t know of this campaign, we are calling for a national Deposit Return Scheme on plastic bottles. The campaign is going well and starting to really take shape now. Over recent months our focus has been on building support from Councillors....
