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2018 was a big year for the fashion industry. Through documentaries like Fashion’s Dirty Secrets and the True Cost, we learned that the clothes that we wear have a huge impact on the environment and on the welfare of communities who make our clothes. The environmental impacts of fashion range from water pollution from...

November was Spotlight on Waste month. The month where we highlight what we need to do as a University to meet our waste targets (95% recycling target and a continuous year-on-year reduction in wastes arising). The Environment and Energy section hosted events and visited departments to see how we can better reduce the...

Out of sight, out of mind. That’s the mentality many of us have to waste. This may be even more the case at work, where unlike at home we don’t have the job of stamping down the bin bag in the kitchen dustbin, washing out the compost caddy, or lugging the heavy wheelie bin out to the curb each week. A study this month will...

Researchers and staff at the University of Cambridge, have been selected as top 10 finalists in a global contest designed to identify, reward, and spotlight innovative solutions for addressing climate change. This project was selected from a pool of nearly 200 entries in Solution Search: Climate Change Needs Behavior...