Bradford Telegraph and Argus | Enviro Watch

Export ban on electrical waste set up

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:26:21 +0000

Many of us become very frustrated when we see a cigarette packet discarded through a car window, or a can thrown down by a youngsters close to, but not into, a waste bin.

Best-before dates are a confusion

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:18:07 +0000

A quick search through my food cupboards established that while most of the food had been purchased recently, some was beyond the best-buy date.

Poisonous mercury is a problem

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:53:14 +0000

The special properties of the metal mercury have made it well-known for thousands of years, and it is not surprising that a Roman god and one of the planets around the sun have been named after it. Also there aren’t many metals that are in liquid form at room temperature.

Sending our green aims off the rails

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:43:44 +0000

I first thought that HS2 was a reference to hydrogen sulphide (H2S), the rotten egg smell, but in fact it is the proposal for a second high-speed rail line in the UK, though it seems to have caused as much of a stink as the chemical.

Take it from the tap not the bottle...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:25:28 +0000

After some thought, I have come to the conclusion that the ignorance, self-interest and greed of the industrialised world can be best summed up in two words – bottled water.

Reducing sky-high emissions

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:20:29 +0000

A Boxing Day report declared that Leeds-Bradford Airport had enjoyed another great year in 2011, and the figures clearly show considerable growth.

A fanfare for United star Gary

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:49:55 +0000

As I was born just around the corner from Kings Cross station, I have always supported Arsenal football club, and that means a less-than- sympathetic view of a successful team from Manchester.

‘Ecoversity’ is leading the way

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:27:48 +0000

We don’t make enough fuss of one of the most impressive enterprises in the country and it’s only a few hundred metres from the city centre.

Leave the carbon in the ground!

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:51:25 +0000

Despite the fact that the science explaining climate change is very robust, and has been understood for well over a century, there are still those who doubt that human activity has much to do with it and so think it reasonable to keep on using the atmosphere as a waste dump.

Keeping a wolf from the door

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:10:52 +0000

It seems that nowadays we can’t even rely on the nursery rhymes that we learned as children. The one about the three little pigs and their house-building endeavours will need to be rewritten in the light of modern house-building techniques and the challenge to reduce carbon dioxide production.