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The search for a cleaner, greener plastic
The Guardian – 7 July 2019
This summer, Vegware is also starting to offer collection by courier costing £10 for small cafes and individuals using Vegware at parties, in partnership with recycling company First Mile.
How Hunter are turning your old wellies into horse tracks creating a sustainable solution to waste
Evening Standard – 28 June 2019
UK customers are being encouraged to send their old boots to either First Mile through its online system, or to Hunter’s flagship store on Regent Street, in London.
Sustainable fashion just got a new cool makeover
Metro – 4 June 2019
First Mile have just launched their RecycleBox service in a bid to help combat the UK’s waste crisis and disappointingly stagnant recycling rates.
Why it’s safer walking to work than choking in a polluted car
The Times – 9 May 2019
Where does air pollution affect us most in our daily lives and what can we do about it? Those are the questions The Times set out to investigate in a unique trial involving a dozen people with varying lifestyles and different occupations.
Archive
10 July 2019
Cleaning Hygiene Today – Inside First Mile’s “Sacktory”
8 July 2019
Packaging News – Coffee Cup recycling update and debate at London event
4 July 2019
Let's Recycle – First Mile partners with Huhtamaki
3 July 2019
Earth Island – First Mile and Huhtamaki join forces to accelerate disposable coffee cup recycling
2 July 2019
Resource – New partnership to help businesses recycle cups
2 July 2019
Cost Sector Catering – First Mile and Huhtamaki join forces to accelerate disposable coffee cup recycling
1 July 2019
Packaging Europe – First Mile and Huhtamaki join forces to accelerate disposable coffee cup recycling
1 July 2019
Packaging Gateway – First Mile and Huhtamaki partner to promote disposable cup recycling
1 July 2019
Express & Star – Free food festival heading to Birmingham this weekend
1 July 2019
REB News – First Mile and Huhtamaki join forces to increase coffee cup recycling
1 July 2019
MRW Magazine – First Mile coffee cup partnership
10 June 2019
Business Green – Going circular: Is your office fit for the future and fit for the planet?
4 June 2019
Dezeen – Eight design brands leading the way in sustainability
30 May 2019
Fibre2Fashion – Inditex UK signs for First Mile's plastic hanger recycling
24 May 2019
Waste Management World – Six Waste & Recycling Firms Warn Government Against Creating ‘Monopoly’
24 May 2019
REB News – Waste firms partner to prevent local recycling monopolies
24 May 2019
People Management – Why countryside walks and pub lunches aren’t just for weekends or days off
23 May 2019
Apparel Industry News / Just-Style – New coat hanger recycling service launches in UK
22 May 2019
Air Quality News – Parents ‘trapped’ in toxic homes as Hubbub launch new air quality campaign
21 May 2019
Business Green – Coat hangers: First Mile confronts its latest waste villain
20 May 2019
British Plastics & Rubber – First Mile launches new coat hanger recycling service to prevent millions of hangers going to waste each year
20 May 2019
REB News – First Mile launch coat hanger recycling service
14 May 2019
Birmingham Live – All the amazing food and drink you can try at Colmore Food Festival 2019
13 May 2019
Packaging Gateway – First Mile launches UK compostable packaging recycling service
9 May 2019
Environment Journal – UK’s first compostable packaging recycling service launched
9 May 2019
Business Green – First Mile launches recycling service for compostable packaging
9 May 2019
The Environmental Blog – The three items everyone should recycle
8 May 2019
Evening Standard – Kerbside recycling service for compostable packaging aimed at businesses to be launched
8 May 2019
Packaging News – First Mile launches dedicated compostable packaging recycling service
8 May 2019
Reb News – First Mile launch compostable recycling packaging service
1 May 2019
MRW Magazine – First Mile’s compostable packaging
29 April 2019
Let's Recycle – First Mile website offers recycling data
18 April 2019
BBC – Costa Coffee vows 'cup recycling revolution'
5 April 2019
Evening Standard – ULEZ charge: How will the ultra-low emission zone check affect Londoners?
3 April 2019
Evening Standard – London hospitals trial blood deliveries by bike as Mayor's toxic air levy comes in
1 April 2019
Fleet News – Imminent London ULEZ prompts renewed calls for Government help
18 March 2019
Jewellery Quarter – JQBID Partners with First Mile in Mission to Make Birmingham Green!
11 March 2019
Guardian Series – Swapping vehicles to meet ULEZ emissions standards is 'minimum' companies should do
27 February 2019
Evening Standard – 6 steps you can take to protect yourself from London's air pollution
15 February 2019
Let's Recycle – London Fashion Week sparks recycling debate
15 February 2019
Resource – Businesses join forces to tackle Scotland's coffee cup waste
14 February 2019
London Post – First Mile poll highlights the nation’s throwaway clothing culture ahead of London Fashion Week
2 February 2019
The Press And Journal – How to make any wardrobe sustainable
25 January 2019
This Week in FM – Action Required To Halt A Return To Deadly Smog
18 January 2019
London Post – First Mile Releases Image of Air Pollution Damage to Oxford Street
14 December 2018
Resource – New recycling scheme for single-use plastic beer kegs
13 December 2018
Packaging Europe – First Mile and KeyKeg Kick-start a Closed-loop Recycling Programme for Plastic Beer Kegs
17 July 2018
MotorTransport – First Mile puts best foot Forward with six new Isuzu trucks
18 June 2018
Global Citizen – This UK store will buy back old clothes to cut down on waste
11 June 2018
City A.M. – The Planet's plastic addiction is hurting our oceans, so we all much reduce, reuse and recycle
6 June 2018
Brum Pic – Colmore food festival 2018 to ban plastic straws as part of zero to landfill mission
31 May 2018
LetsRecycle – Costa to 'review' cup pledge if levy passed
20 April 2018
City A.M. – Wasteful thinking: We meet the man on a mission to tackle the UK's plastic addiction
18 April 2018
LetsRecycle – Waste sector backs Costa's coffee cup recycling plan
18 April 2018
The Guardian – Costa Coffee to recycle equivalent of all its takeaway cups each year
29 March 2018
City A.M. – Debate: Will the deposit return scheme for bottles be effective at cutting down plastic use?
19 September 2017
Bdaily – First Mile recycling company is cutting our diesel vehicles in London
8 July 2017
Plastic Oceans – Plastic Pollution - the path to awareness
16 May 2017
LetsRecycle – First Mile targets growth after GCP investment
9 May 2017
Information Age – Going green: technology's battle to save the planet
29 March 2017
Renewable Energy Magazine – Food Waste collection in the UK: An interview with Bruce Bratley of First Mile
6 March 2017
City A.M. – Absolute rubbish: Waste entrepreneur Bruce Bratley on building his recycling empire
16 February 2017
Resource – bio-bean establishes Caffè Nero partnership to turn coffee waste into fuel
13 February 2017
Business Green – Caffe Nero teams up with bio-bean and First Mile to turn waste coffee into fuel
10 February 2017
The Evening Standard – Caffe Nero first major coffee chain with delivery scheme to convert beans into fuel
6 February 2017
The Telegraph – First Mile chief: 'Saving the planet should be made easy'
3 March 2016
Real Business – First Mile: Revolutionising waste and recycling for 14,000 businesses
13 July 2015
Medium – First Mile: Recycling Company Uses CRM to help customers manager their rubbish
12 December 2014
Management Today – How London's recycling king built a £11m turnover business
7 August 2013
REB News – First Mile pioneers pop-up recycling in London
21 June 2012
Facilities Management Journal – First Mile Launches new food recycling service for businesses in London
25 October 2011
Money Week – Bruce Bratley: I make £4.2m a year from the recycling bin
22 February 2008
Small Biz Pod – Recycling Support Brings Business success
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