Survey reveals Kingston students’ recycling confusion
Hermione Marszalek
A survey asking Kingston students about their recycling habits revealed that just under 30% of students visit a recycling point to dispose of rubbish that can’t be recycled at home…
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Environmental impacts of the meat industry
Lara Hassan
For many meat eaters, a burger takes up the space of a box and the impact that burger has is limited to their physical experience of it. However research shows…
Kingston river suffers from sewage dumped by Thames Water
William De Sousa
Thames Water has continued to dump raw sewage into Kingston’s Hogsmill River with discharges lasting more than 20 hours in the last few days. The last recorded discharge of sewage…
Green Kingston: Pond opening caps off series of events
Bakar Hassan
Kingston Mayor Yogan Yoganathan officially opened the new pond at Claremont Gardens at the weekend, the last of a series of events designed to raise awareness of Kingston’s green places.…
Election 2019: All You Need to Know About The Environment in 96 Seconds
Jamie Eccleston
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Kingston University student turns waste plastic into fashion
Natalie J Crookham
A Kingston University fashion student has combined her love for clothes design, embellishment and the environment by repurposing plastic litter into her new sustainability-themed collection.
Kingston University Environmental society to help local council plant more trees
Stefania Dall'armi
Kingston University’s Environmental society will aid Kingston Council’s bid of planting 600 trees across the borough in response to the Green Plan pledge. The newly established society’s presidents will try…
Kingston may be next in line to become a plastic water bottle-free university
Sarah Sinclair
Kingston’s student union is going to campaign to follow other universities such as Leeds and Sheffield in reducing and with the aim of finally banning the sale of plastic water…
Kingston receive third class ranking for environmental and sustainability practices
Priyanka Mogul
Kingston University have ranked poorly in People & Planet’s University League, a table that ranks UK universities by their environmental and ethical performance. Kingston has scored 108 out of the…
The River says: Environment
The environment surrounds us. It was here before us and it will be here long after us, so why are we not taking better care of it? People’s interest in…