A pub chain has banned STRAWS from its boozers after claiming they "suck". Oakman Inns are scrapping the use of 100,000 plastic straws every month to try and become more environmentally friendly. Instead, drinkers will be given an eco-friendly biodegradable alternative, which is yet to be developed. CEO Peter Borg-Neal, ...
When it comes to beauty, different nationalities spend more on different things or use things more than other nationalities. But who exactly spends most on skin care or surgery and which nationality uses the most? We probably all have an pre existing assumption of which nationalities and countries we expect ...
The next generation, Z for those keeping up, are heading to adulthood. Born between the mid 90s and 2000s, they grew up as online natives. Generation Z have firm ideas about the importance of honesty, personal acceptance and individuality that will undoubtedly impact the wider world, not least as they ...
By Joey Tyson The smell of a volcano is impossible to forget. Something between rotten eggs and a dodgy car exhaust, the stench of sulphur gags, clogging your throat for a second until the breeze blows over you. In short, it stinks. “Don’t spend too long down wind of the ...
This shocking photo shows the devastation caused by rubbish thrown in the sea - a dead dolphin washed up in Britain surrounded by the waste which may have killed it, The sad picture shows a dead bottlenose dolphin next to a pile of plastics, rope, bottles, flower pots, deodorant cans ...
As UK theatres fret over how to respond to the increasing national and global crises that are hitting or emerging from our shores in wave after wave of tsunami like proportions: Brexit, Syria, the refugee crisis, Russia, Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus, the Greek meltdown, Egypt, Spain, the Occupy movement, Trump, Brexit, ...
By Michael McNulty The end of another work week and it’s time to kick back in front of the box and settle into another great film. TGIFF: Thank God it’s Forgotten Film Friday. John Frankenheimer’s Seconds is a science fiction thriller with a pinch of horror delicately sprinkled over top. ...
Given that up to 60 per cent of the rubbish that ends up in the dustbin could be recycled, it is concerning to find that millions of Brits admit they never recycle the most basic of waste materials - the plastic bottle. According to new research some 2.9 million adults never ...
By Amy Hanson from Small Steps Project Last week a devastating landslide of rubbish on Koshe landfill site in Addis Ababa killed over 100 people. Unfortunately this is not the first and nor will it be the last. Thousands of children currently live on landfill sites and rubbish dumps, surviving ...