Hello again and welcome to the Green Alliance News Review hosted by Amy Mounce and Matt Williams.

With this podcast every two weeks or so, we'll bring you an environmental perspective on the political and policy developments of the fortnight,

as well as drawing your attention to any big green stories you might have missed.

Thanks so much to those of you who got in touch following our first episode, which came out two weeks ago.

Please do keep sending in those comments, as feedback is really useful, especially as we're still in the early stages of developing this podcast.

You can find us on Facebook or Twitter at Green Alliance UK. And just as a

reminder, Green Alliance is the environmental think tank and charity that's all about better leadership

for the environment. So we're very focused on policy and politics. And that'll be a lot of what

this podcast is about as well. In this latest episode, we'll be taking a look at the

UK government's plans to tackle the vast quantities of waste that we produce and digging up

some astonishing facts about fashion. And we'll catch up on the latest Brexit developments as well.

But first, an inspiring story, which was unfolding the day that our first episode went live a couple of weeks ago.

This was the school strikes for climate change. What happened there, Matt?

They started in Sweden with a young girl who's 15 years old called Greta Thunberg,

who went out on her own and sat in the street and decided to go on strike from school

because of climate change

and because she said that if world leaders are ignoring scientists on climate change who spent

years and years in education, then what's the point in her going to school if no one's going to

listen to her due to having an education? And also if her future is going to be under threat because

of climate change

and then her individual actions slowly spread to a range of countries around the world across Europe

even to Australia there are young kids on school strikes in America as well and last week

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