First Mile's Climate Heroes

Each adult in the UK has annual carbon footprint of 10 tonnes and this episode hears how we can easily make small decisions daily to reduce this impact. Nudj is a climate behaviour app that sets challenges to help users move to sustainable lifestyles. We meet Dee and Meg who’s goal is reduce everyone’s carbon footprint by one tonne by empowering simple, sustainable changes to our habits.

It’s estimated the UK produces half a million tonnes of plastic film per year for consumer packaging, and less than 5% is recycled. This episode meets Berry bpi, Europe’s biggest film recycler, to find out why we have so much plastic film in our lives, and to get an update on how we recycle more of this material.

Composting provides a safe and sustainable way to recycle the millions of tonnes of garden and food waste we generate. In this episode we discover how composting has gone high-tech to reduce landfill, capture carbon and provide a sustainable alternative to peat compost.

We have 29 million homes in the UK and they account for 18% of GHG emissions but they could all have a much lower impact if properly insulated and heated. This episode explores what we need to do to decarbonize homes, businesses and cities, and my guest is leading the way with a major social housing project.

You can make a big impact on climate change if you invest your savings wisely and Clim8 have made this easy for you. In this episode we find out how to invest your money and ensure good is done with it. 

Cabilla is an upland hill farm on Bodmin Moor and home to an ancient temperate rainforest where we can enjoy the restorative power of nature. In this episode we delve into some of the least-known and perhaps hardest to understand ecosystem services, or wellness benefits of nature.

As more of us are searching for sources of plant-based protein tune in to find out how Hodmedods have their finger on the pulse of the British Bean scene.

The Urban Worm is on a mission to show us how worm farming can deliver future food security and provide simple solutions for managing food waste.

This episode hears how Hereford Pedicargo are taking cargo bike logistics to a new level and collecting waste and recycling from an entire town. Tune in to find out recycling-by-bike really works.

Reuse can be a tricky business because items are often hard to find, they can have inconsistent specifications and there’s limited data available. This episode’s guest is changing the reuse with a marketplace to manage and track items, and bringing much needed liquidity and data to reuse.