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Campaign for a strong Global Plastics Treaty

A big reduction in plastic production is the only way we can start to tackle the plastic crisis. Last month, the UK took a major step forward in signing the Bridge to Busan declaration. This is a statement signed by 40 countries at the United Nations affirming the...

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Why the online cloud is not benign

by Janet Ullman Highland Community Waste Partnership on Skye For many of us in the south Skye and Lochalsh area, we were incredibly depressed by a letter from the Bank of Scotland, where we were told that our branch in Kyle of Lochalsh was to close in January next...

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Is it Food?

by Anne MacLennan A monolithic global industrial food system has emerged since the 1980s according to this paper. Western food culture is dominated by packaged, ready-to-consume products, which are now rapidly displacing traditional dietary patterns in lower income...

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Food loss and waste

by Anne MacLennan Food loss happens from on-farm production through to processing. Food waste is what retailers and consumers throw out. Food loss and waste (FLW) depletes natural resources, contributes to climate change and hampers food security. About a fifth of...

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Stoking the fires with fossil fuels

by Anne MacLennan Skye may not have been overly warm this summer, but the world hit its hottest day ever recorded, in July as we hear of yet more wildfires, heatwaves, floods and damaging storms. So we should be pulling out all the stops to stop the warming? Well,...

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Climate: good news and bad news

by Anne MacLennan Global temperatures are predicted to reduce a little from later this year, possibly for a few years, but while that could bring some temporary relief, it doesn't mean we can relax efforts to bring down greenhouse gas emissions asap. The underlying...

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