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Home / Tag: wastebusters

Tag: wastebusters

Plastic Myths Busted!

After getting tonnes of questions, our Recycling Coordinator Sam Taylor wrote a blog in the hope of clearing up some of the confusion around plastics… Aren’t all plastics recyclable? How do you make a plastic anyway? Why will you recycle a plastic bottle but not a yoghurt pot? Well, read on to find out the […]

Posted 16 February 2017 | Categories: One Planet Living, Waste and recycling | Tags: council, environment, materials, packaging, plastic, recycling, resin identification code system, waste, wastebusters, York

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Pollinarium project

We're excited to be part of York Mediale and Loop.pH's innovative Pollinarium project - the very …

(Inner) Poldarks unleashed to re-enact scything of city walls

Updated for 2018, our Meadow Keepers have re-enacted The Press in York archive photo below which …

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17 Aug 2018

RT @RobertsonGroup: Today @StNicksFields – a local Environment Centre – visited #JamesHouseYork for a follow-up meeting and a walk around o…

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Wildwatch Spring 2018 (March-May)

Highlights Greenfinches bounce back... eight new invertebrates...tiny member of the Rose …

Spotlight on... Common Carder Bumblebee

The Common Carder Bumblebee, Bombus pascuorum, is the most frequently seen Bumblebee on the reserve …

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