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Category: Sustainable economy

Pavement charging hookup for electric vehicles

Posted on January 2, 2025

Many homes in Aberdeen have no driveways or garages where electric charger points can be fitted. Our house in Abergeldie Road is one such example. In August 2024 I wrote to my councillor Ian Yuill, to see if I could …

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Biodegradable plastic film for sustainable disposal

Posted on December 31, 2024

The post below was published in CIWM Circular Journal, p 64-67, Winter, 2024, circularonline.co.uk, summarising an ACA cafe in Aberdeen on 6th February 2024. The future direction for single-use packaging was the topic on everyone’s mind at a recent Aberdeen …

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Review of book “More is less” by Jason Hickel

Posted on May 26, 2023

Preventing climate change while promoting a growth economy with a growing population is incompatible. This is the substance of economic anthropologist Prof. Jason Hickel’s absorbing book. For 300,000 years our ancestors worked with nature, taking only what they required. Items …

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Getting our traditional granite houses to zero carbon by 2045

Posted on April 26, 2022

Come to our discussion on insulation, draught-proofing, and zero carbon heating of traditional granite houses, to be held on Tuesday 3rd May, 7-9 pm, via Zoom. Go to Eventbrite, Aberdeen Climate Action events.

Clarification required regarding compostable plastics.

Posted on December 6, 2021

Oil-based plastic films are not edible by micro-organisms, so when left as litter does not degrade. In contrast plastic plant-based films classified as compostable break down in contact with the soil, in what is a low temperature rotting process. These …

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Developments in biodegradable food packaging

Posted on January 20, 2021

Two issues are being hotly debated at present, the amount of fresh food being wasted, and the pollution caused by oil-based plastic films. A large part of the solution to both is the development of biodegradable packaging. The use of …

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