Why are 99.75% of coffee cups not recycled?
Reality Check team BBC News Getty Images It’s gradually becoming common knowledge that it’s not as easy to recycle your takeaway coffee cup as people may have thought. It’s the mixture of paper and plastic in their inner lining – designed to make them both heat and leakproof – that causes difficulties. There are currently […]
Debt warning over car finance payment holidays
Ben Robinson 5 Live Investigations Unit Tamara Ellison Tamara Ellison had a six-week wait before a car finance payment holiday was agreed Debt charities have warned families could “face real hardship” over delays in agreeing coronavirus-related car finance payment holidays. Last week, the industry regulator instructed lenders to offer payment holidays to customers who need […]
Calls grow for extra bank holiday if England win
Rebecca Marston Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Prime minister Boris Johnson is coming under pressure to give workers a one-off bank holiday if England win their final Euro 2020 championship on Sunday. Mr Johnson said granting a bank holiday now would be “tempting fate”. The Trades Union Congress also urged firms to be flexible, […]
Wales sets new climate change targets
Steffan Messenger BBC Wales Environment Correspondent leighcol/Getty Images Advisers have already called for heavy industry, like steel, to become more energy efficient New legally-binding carbon emissions targets for Wales have been announced. They set the path towards an overall reduction of 80% from 1990 levels by 2050. Because of Wales’ heavy industry like steelworks, power […]
Five takeaways from RFK Jr’s first confirmation hearing
Nadine Yousif and Mike Wendling BBC News Watch: Protesters, McDonald’s and onesies – RFK Jr’s confirmation hearing President Donald Trump’s pick for US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, was questioned by senators at his first confirmation hearing on Wednesday. The post of health secretary is a key federal government position that oversees public health […]
Supermarket food could soon carry eco-labels, says study
Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent Compass Group Ryan Holmes of the catering group Compass (centre) has used the Oxford method to reduce the environmental impact of its workplace meals Supermarket shoppers could soon be checking the environmental impact of food before putting it in their trolleys, thanks to new research. Reliable information of this kind hasn’t […]
The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest
Tim Mansel BBC World Service, Hambacher Forest BBC More than a third of Germany’s electricity is still produced by burning coal – mostly dirty brown lignite – and environmental activists are fighting to change this. A small area of forest not far from the Dutch border has become the focal point of their campaign. It’s […]
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro interview: Full transcript
BBC The BBC’s Orla Guerin has interviewed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. Here is the full transcript. As we sit here, there is US aid across the border in Colombia. We have met many people here who tell us they are desperately in need of aid. Why not allow it through? Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan […]
The ‘Champagne’ of apple cider
Amy McPherson Features correspondent annalovisa/Alamy The microclimate of Norway’s fjords is ideal for apple cultivation (Credit: annalovisa/Alamy) There’s a belief that some form of cider was made by Vikings in Norway, and today, its growing popularity has people convinced it’s the country’s national drink. “Now, I want you to be opened minded,” said Anne Gunn […]
A simple idea for staying healthy
L J Coffey Features correspondent Hotel Plesnik (Credit: Hotel Plesnik) Most people outside of Germany will not have heard of Sebastian Kneipp. But this 19th-Century priest-turned-wellness-guru is the godfather of some of today’s hottest wellness trends. Knee-deep in a freezing-cold stream in alpine Slovenia, I was wobbling on one leg attempting to practise “stork walking”. […]