Circular Economy

Nelly Semaille: Filling Good Top Tips!

What are the five top tips for starting a zero-waste shop in your local area? Carbon Copy speaks with Nelly Semaille, co-founder and co-director of the Filling Good shops in Maidenhead & Windsor....

Fixing Our Throwaway Economy

Claudi Williams: Kicking The Plastic Habit

Stroud District Action on Plastic is a volunteer group that formed following a public talk I was invited to give about my family's experiment of buying no plastic for a year during 2016. Like us, the...

Hannah Garcia: Green Squirrel

Hannah Garcia, of Welsh social enterprise Green Squirrel, tells us about the huge and exciting range of climate and nature-saving intiatives her organisation is working on.

#ClimateConversations: Spenbeck

Becky Valentine of Nottingham eco-office company Spenbeck talks about the challenges of meeting zero carbon in Grade II Listed buildings - and about the exciting climate action happening in her home...

Becky Baines: Back To School

Imagine you are eight years old again. Imagine seeing photos of burning forests and words such as "CODE RED for humanity". Imagine living in fear of the Earth ending.  Now reflect upon the fact...

Picture This: Conversations

Circular Economy Recorded as part of the launch event for Carbon Copy's Picture This: exhibition. The second photograph selected by guest host Atul Kumar was by East Belfast Mission (EBM). In...

Pictures to warm your heart (not the planet!)

Writing this on a ridiculously wet Monday morning in June, I can think of nothing more uplifting than to wander through the newly-opened online gallery of Carbon Copy’s Picture This: photographic exh...

Picture A Carbon Zero Future

This week we have launched submissions for our first ever online photography exhibition. Picture This: will showcase images of collective action from across the country, covering a broad range of app...

How to... raise funds for your community initiative

Funding is a key element required to launch a successful community initiative. In this bitesize interactive session, we get top tips on securing the financial support you need, from Richard Tynen, Di...

Ed Fage: Going Round in Circles

What actually is the ‘circular economy’? Some people end up going round in circles trying to understand it. Here is one definition from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation: A circular economy is based...

Terry McTernan: Darkwood Crew

Terry McTernan, Project Lead and Secretary of Darkwood Crew, tells us about the work he and his team in Ferguslie Park, Renfrewshire, have been doing to reduce waste, tackle fuel poverty and improve...

Eleanor Newton: Recycling Is Great, But Reusing Is Better!

Today is Global Recycling Day and while recycling still has a major part to play in ending the climate crisis, we at Ground Delivery think reusing is the future. We support our local community around...

Local Leaders Are The Key

In the last year, as national governments have largely focused on managing the pandemic, it has fallen to local communities, councils and businesses, despite repeated lockdowns, to lead the drive to...

How to... build partnerships to benefit your local community

This is first in our video series where experts from different sectors share practical advice to help you with your own low-carbon initiatives. In this episode - “How to…build partnerships to ben...

Get to know... Jo Dainton

In this chat, recorded via Zoom as part of Carbon Copy's "Get to know..." series for IGTV, Carbon Copy Communications Manager Isabelle Sparrow speaks to Jo Dainton, Reuse Manager at Bristol Waste....

Carbon Copy & Community Pioneers

“Everyone must learn to love change,” according to management guru Tom Peters. One reason he could make a career out of pushing this idea is because, let’s be honest, most of us really don’t.  A...

Joanna Dainton: Reuse Made Easy At Bristol Waste

In June 2020 Bristol Waste opened its first Reuse Shop at the Avonmouth Reuse and Recycling Centre.  The shop opening followed two years of pop-up reuse events, which helped us to understand...

Get to know... Julia Roebuck

Carbon Copy Communications Manager Isabelle Sparrow speaks to Julia Roebuck, founder of Upcycle Fashion, an initiative working to deliver circular & sharing fashion projects in communities to red...

Julia Roebuck: Clothing In Circular Communities

To reduce the increasing volume of textile waste caused by fast fashion, traditional routes for clothing re-use need to get creative, embrace localism and think circular. The Coronavirus pandemic...