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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

YEARS

2021

CAMPAIGNS

WASTE&RESOURCES

Plastic Free Takeaways

Waste

The Story of Plastic – community screening

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5th Sep 2020

At the beginning of the summer, we organised an online community screening of "The Story of Plastic".

Chorlton Brook litter pickin’ in the rain!

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23rd Mar 2019

Despite the rain we had a depressingly successful litter pick at Chorlton Brook on Saturday clearing away loads of stuff that had been dumped - half of which can be recycled.

Levenshulme market first stall

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26th Mar 2018

The Plastic-Free Takeaways campaign team held their first stall at the Levenshulme market on Saturday the 24th of March. Ali, Lucie, Mirjam and Sébastien all arrived around 10am under a nice sunshine and Ian was an unexpected but appreciated addition …

October Waste campaign meeting

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15th Oct 2017

We held the October Waste campaign meeting this Wednesday during which we discussed our findings about Manchester take-away businesses and planned future actions. To recap, our campaign focuses on single-use items in local take-aways. The aim is to influence businesses …

Highlights from the second Waste Campaign meeting: Zero Waste, plastics as main focus and first steps – surveying local food take-away businesses

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22nd Jul 2017

Following June’s meeting during which we identified six potential campaign goals, we held a meeting with the aim to discuss these ideas to narrow down our focus further and start working towards our goals.

Highlights from our first Waste Campaign meeting

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5th Jun 2017

Highlights from the first Waste Campaign meeting – brainstorming and narrowing down focus We held our first waste campaign meeting last Tuesday at Green Fish. As waste is such a multifaceted and complex issue, and although ideally we would like to …

Leaking landfills – a ticking timebomb as climate change hits?

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22nd Feb 2016

Thousands of old landfills could be at risk of leaking out waste and contaminants into rivers and estuaries as sea levels rise, new research shows.

Panorama gets under the skin of Apple’s ethical claims

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18th Dec 2014

The media just won’t leave Apple alone – I almost feel sorry for them. I know I shouldn’t feel sorry for the global megabrand, but I almost do: Apple’s getting the Panorama treatment.

Group attacks waste plan (The Guardian, 15th October, 1975).

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15th Oct 1975

A conservation group claimed yesterday that if Laporte Industries had not already found alternative employment for 400 men working at Cavendish Mill in the Peak District, they had acted irresponsibly.

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