Pumpkin waste: three ways to stop your leftover lantern becoming a Halloween horror story: Misuzu Henderson / shutterstock This Halloween, around 18,000 tonnes of pumpkins will go to waste in the UK alone. That’s because, of the 30 million purchased each year, about half go entirely uneaten. That’s £27 million worth of edible food. The …
Health secretary Thérèse Coffey gave leftover prescription drugs to a poorly friend – is this advisable or legal?: Thérèse Coffey, the health secretary for England, has admitted to giving her leftover antibiotics to friends and family who were feeling unwell. This led to the British Medical Association issuing a statement, describing her actions as “not …
How China’s ‘leftover women’ are using their financial power to fight the stigma of being single: shutterstock In China, if you are female, educated and unmarried by the age of 27, people might use a particular term – “Sheng-nu” – to describe your social status. It translates simply as “leftover women”. The label was deliberately …
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Killer whales: why more than half world’s orcas are threatened by leftover industrial chemicals: Tory Kallman / shutterstock More than half of the world’s killer whales are threatened by a group of toxic industrial chemicals that accumulate in their blubber and can be passed on from mother to calf. That’s according to a new study …