Our Californian Correspondent, Senorita Julie, sent in the best link.
+ Environmental Working Group
It's a hard hitting think tank that provides all sorts of product reviews, including one on cosmetics. It dissects the ingredients of common soaps, shampoos, moisturizers etc and highlights hazardous ingredients, then gives the products and overall rating. This is an extremely useful resource.
I have made an official request to visit any of London's recycling centres for an in-depth look at how they really work. Questions like a) who sorts out the 'mixed bags' full of various types of recyclables and b) how are they actually recycled? Most people I speak to are cynical that anything happens to the mixed recycling bags and I myself don't understand how our typical mixed recycling bag, which will usually contain up to 6 types of plastic, aluminum, glass and various types of paper (including little bitty pieces) can be efficiently sorted unless there is a huge team rifling through it all on conveyor belts. I want to know - is it all a London borough con? Where is the evidence of how it is all actually recycled? I can never find any reports on it, apart from % of waste that is sent to recycling sites, not how much is actually recycled or how it is recycled. One of our friends accidentally put his recycling bag out a day early on his street in Notting Hill (
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