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WWF and Tetra Pak want your renewable ideas

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13 May 2010

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WWF-UK and Tetra Pak have launched a three-year partnership to search for new ideas aimed at harnessing the nation’s ‘green intentions’ and turning them into action. Because your world needs you...

WWF and Tetra Pak's ‘Your Renewable Idea’ competition is asking for consumers’ ideas that will change people’s habits and lifestyles.

Your inspired ideas can be submitted online at www.renewableidea.co.uk, where they’ll be put to a public vote. Tetra Pak will set aside up to £25,000 to turn the winning idea into a reality with the support of WWF-UK.

How the Tetra Pak partnership helps WWF’s work
Tetra Pak will donate £1 to WWF-UK for every idea submitted, and 10p for every vote posted.

Funds generated will support our important conservation projects, including one based in the Russian Caucasus that helps conserve the precious forest habitat of a number of rare and endangered species, such as the Persian leopard.

You can…

Enter Your Renewable Idea competition
See more about WWF's work on forests
Find out about our work with Tetra Pak

Comments

Posted by sabryna on 31/08/10 19:54
I can't belive how many plastic bags that we use, there are many diferrent matireals that you could use for bags.
Posted by Edmund on 29/07/10 07:00
The main issue for recycle of aseptic package is the collection of such material. A well distributed collection network is required together with preparation and collection method. Last is the incentive for collecting such material.
Posted by Stephen Arnold on 08/06/10 16:39
I'm a British Soldier posted to Germany, and the Germans have got it right by placing 25 cents deposit on all plastic bottles. Once you have finished with your bottles, you return them to a machine in the shop where you get a receipt to hand into the cashier for a refund of your deposit.
Posted by Steve Ryan on 06/06/10 22:12
All businesses must have a contract with a recycling company for their waste, phased in and starting with the largest companies.
Posted by William Saunders on 18/05/10 23:21
Demand that supermarkets have recycling bins for all materials they sell in their car parks. If they want planning permission they have to comply! This would hopefully solve the problem that many local authorities do not accept No5 plastic for example.
Posted by William Saunders on 18/05/10 23:17
Why are radiators positioned on the external wall in a room. Surely if they were only put on internal walls more energy would be retained in the house and you wouldn't need the heating on as long/hot?
Posted by William Saunders on 18/05/10 23:15
Change planning regulations so that all new commercial buildings are mandated to have a green roof. The already do this in Switzerland. Can you imagine how amazing London would look from the air?
Posted by William Saunders on 18/05/10 23:13
Change house building regulations so that every new house has a water/electrical system that can easily have solar water heating or micro electricity generation installed by the owner.
Posted by William Saunders on 18/05/10 23:09
Change the house building regulations so that all guttering downpipes have to be fitted with a water butt
Posted by Samantha Edgar on 18/05/10 18:18
It's great to see all the enthusiasm and ideas above - but remember they have to be entered at www.renewableidea.co.uk to be in with a chance of winning the competition.

Do check out the ideas, and vote for your favourites!

Sam, Tetra Pak UK
Posted by Jamie Cole - Hamilton on 16/05/10 19:42
Why not force companies to use more recycled materials, i.e. glass bottles, plastic milk jugs. They are all recyclable, if it was compulsary to use recycled materials more would be done to reduce the cost of recycling.
Posted by Cathleen Murray on 15/05/10 21:31
WMF should set up a food chain of vegan/vegetarian restaurants across the UK to encourage people to change their eating habits - if reasonably priced and offering both healthy fast food during the day and fine eating at night- it could convert many a meateater.
Posted by Steve on 15/05/10 08:40
Would it be good if all the steam that poured out of people's central heating vents could be collected? In winter, there's almost a collective cloud of the stuff emanating from 100s of houses.
Posted by Andrew Heathcote on 14/05/10 18:04
Would't it be great if the Government and local councils helped people who cannot afford them ,get solar panels and domestic wind turbines-helping to reduce use of fossil fuels and fuel bills at the same time?
Posted by Juliette Hetherington on 14/05/10 16:31
Soft drinks could be sold in reusable bottles with a refundable deposit, as they were in the past. Not only would it reduce the amount of plastic being used, but kids could learn that it pays to reduce waste - by getting their pocket money through collecting and returning the empties
Posted by Alison Davidson on 14/05/10 11:21
How about if councils were obliged to offer Not-for-Profit organisations recycling collection at the same cost as they are currently paying for refuse collection.
Posted by Jean Cole on 14/05/10 10:53
Don't know why milk, yogurt etc aren't all sold in reusable glass bottles with a deposit on them as they are in many poorer countries. Children collect and return bottles they see around to get pocket money
Posted by Paula Melrose on 14/05/10 10:53
I think air conditioning should be solar powered as it is usually required where the weather is hot or sunny !
Posted by Lisa Howard on 14/05/10 09:48
In Canada milk is sold in bags and the bags slot into a reusable jug. This considerably cuts down on packaging and could also be applied to other liquids or even cereals, rice and grains. Tetrapack could make jugs and bags from recycled plastic or other earth friendly materials.
Posted by Olivia Woolhouse on 14/05/10 09:14
Wouldn't it be great if...
When you go to the supermarket you choose how much of one product you want and it dispenses from a solar powered machine into your re-used bags! Just think how much packaging we would save!!!
Posted by Joanne Spink on 13/05/10 22:08
Why don't clothes have labels with barcodes on them. These could be scanned into modified washing machines which would sort them, weigh them, tell you exactly how much washing powder & softener to use, and calculate the water & electricity needed. No more wasted resource or colour run either!!!
Posted by Annette Lambourne on 13/05/10 20:03
Why do the governments not put more pressure on manufacturers to produce recyclable materials for food. We don't need plastic egg cartons when we can use cardboard ones and recyle them or put them in the compost bin. More pressure on the manufacturers would maybe produce less landfill.
Posted by Mike Fowler on 13/05/10 19:41
"Wouldn't it be a good idea if we had reuseable packaging instead of Tetra Paks"
Posted by Janet Chambers on 13/05/10 18:38
I have always wondered why we don't build wind towers like they have in the middle east on top of air conditioner units to improve their efficiency. It should make a big difference to large buildings.
Posted by Virginia Hunt on 13/05/10 17:02
Why don't gyms and health clubs generate their own electricity from all the 'cycling' and walking on the treadmills!
Posted by Samantha Pugh on 13/05/10 16:12
I wish that all coffee manufacturers would sell instant coffee in packets instead of jars. They do it for ground coffee. Most people decant their coffee straight into a cannister anyway.
Posted by George Robinson on 13/05/10 15:08
IN Sweden we have a deposit system for ALL drinks containers, plastic and Aluminium, so we have a recycle of over 90%, and the energy used to make a new Al can is only 10% than using raw materials
Posted by George Robinson on 13/05/10 15:05
When I was in the UK in 2006, Darlington to be exact, they had just opened a completely new recycling center, all very posh with skips for just about everything. I then asked the foreman what happens now, oh the skips are taken to the landfill at N Aycliffe, so what was the point
Posted by Virginia Chico on 13/05/10 13:27
I would love to be able to refill shampoo, shower gel, soap bottles etc instead of having to recycle them and buy new products. Refill machines could be available from supermarkets, chemists, Boots, Superdrug etc.
Posted by Virginia Chico on 13/05/10 13:23
I have seen machines which dispense fresh milk into bottles. They work like can dispensing machines and you can buy empty glass bottles from the machine to fill up or bring your own. There is no waste of packaging, so you save having to recycle thousands of plastic bottles.
Posted by Anna Weber on 13/05/10 12:50
...their produce in our tins, tupperware, flasks and thermo flasks, so there was rarely any waste. Fruit was never packaged and always put into your own shopping bags. I thinks shops are still relying too much on offering people free plastic bags - this should stop. xa.
Posted by Anna Weber on 13/05/10 12:49
I have noticed how much plastic packaging "we" still go through each day, especially when we buy take-out sandwiches, salads, snack bars etc. There has to be a way to reduce this madness!
I grew up in East Germany and back in the days we would take containers to the shops and have the vendors put
Posted by claire larravide on 13/05/10 12:39
Re Alan above, my local supermarket has a battery recycling bin!! I wait til I have a few (although rarely use them as I use rechargeable where possible), and drop them in there. (Morrisons Supermarket btw), wonder how many more of the larger ones have this system in place?
Posted by Brian Haines on 13/05/10 12:12
The world should turn vegan/vegetarian (half India is already) and all food could then be grown locally. Some fruits would need to be imported but these would not amount to much. This change would not only cut carbon emmisions it would improve everyones' health.
Posted by Alan Bradford on 13/05/10 11:13
Most of us have items of varying degrees of value which could be given to a Charity auction to help raise funds.
Could WWF set up occasional auctions with local auction houses to take on items such as unwanted paintings, small items of furniture etc which people would happily donate to clear space.
Posted by Alan Bradford on 13/05/10 11:08
It is time all companies who use packaging, give an indication on a simple label as to which part of the nonusable contents, can be recycled. I still hear stories about how much recycled
material is going into landfill sites. Why is there not a simple plastic which can melted down and reused.
Posted by Alan Bradford on 13/05/10 10:59

I hate throwing away endless AAA batteries etc.
I went to a small pub in Suffolk and the landlord had a basket by the door for patrons to bin their old batteries.
Could WWF not set up a link with the likes of WH Smith, supermarkets etc to have 'Battery Bins' by the entrances.

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