Waste

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

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.

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...

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...

Creating A Coalition

This is part of our Unlocking Local Action series of events. Community is the lens so often left out of the environmental discussion, but it’s vital in implementing lasting solutions. Rather than...

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....

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...

Toolkit: 31 Actions

Ashden's mission is to accelerate transformative climate solutions and build a more just world. Our focus is where the need is urgent and the potential for impact great: creating liveable cities and...

Securing Our Food

Food security means everyone having enough safe and nutritious food to grow up and live a healthy life, in ways the planet’s ecosystem resources can sustain. Looking into the near future, there are i...

Embracing The Circular Economy

“Economics is broken,” says Kate Raworth, visionary author of Doughnut Economics. “It has failed to predict, let alone prevent, financial crises that have shaken the foundations of our societies.”...

Asher Craig: Social Inclusion

Having identified the equalities issues endemic to the environmental sector, we have spent the last four years at Bristol City Council learning and acting to address these issues. These will inform o...

Rob Greenland: How To Build A Movement

Our aim at Zero Waste Leeds is to build a movement. What exactly do we mean by that? In summary, for us it's largely about engaging with people from across Leeds who want to play a part in us moving...

Asher Craig: Discovering Gold

There are many existing projects, products, and initiatives in Bristol which help local communities take more effective climate action, including repair cafés, local parks groups, wildlife and f...

Beyond Sustainability

Conventional economics is degenerative. Business as usual depletes our finite natural resources faster than they can recover and we become inevitably poorer as a result. The exciting idea of ‘buildin...