Waste And Recycling

Digital UK urged to remind public not to throw out existing televisions when the analogue TV signal is switched off in their region

Earlier this month, campaigner Shlomo Dowen won a landmark High Court case that forced Nottinghamshire council to reveal its financial arrangements with waste contractor Veolia Environmental Services. So what did Veolia want to keep so quiet?

Welsh Government says a charge is the only way to reduce plastic bag use further and encourage reuse

Electricity operator National Grid believes that with the right Government incentives, renewable gas could be produced from our waste and fed straight into the mains

A report from Friends of the Earth reveals the huge extent of the pollution and financial losses caused by our love of landfill and incineration

Greenpeace’s campaign for greener electronics shows promising results as HP release an almost toxin-free product

The recycling network has seen its UK groups halve in number after members lost patience with its 'autocratic' US leadership

Badly thought out waste policy could land the UK with a £0.5 billion fine

Design is everywhere, deciding how things look, how they work and how systems run. But effective ecodesign is difficult when decisions are made in isolation, says Steve Evans

Is it possible to help the environment, local community and give the homeless a second chance at life? The charity Emmaus is living proof that the answer is yes

Find out if your council is about to waste your waste in favour of incinerators with our interactive map

Biogas - a methane-rich fuel made from rotting food waste or sewage - has huge potential as a clean, green fuel for the UK. But a perverse web of subsidies, rules and contracts could mean UK councils are about to kiss goodbye to the real power of waste...

The US company has been singled out for its failure to remove dangerous chemicals from computers

Researchers may soon be using artificial sweeteners to track the path waste water takes.

Less than three per cent of household batteries are currently recycled in Britain. Chie Elliott looks into why we're at the bottom of Europe's league tables

They’re made from recycled materials, and are entirely self-sufficient. Laura Sevier meets the renegade architect behind Earthships

Mel Poluck visits a flagship environmental project that rescues, reuses and recycles tonnes of wood destined for landfills, doing much the same for those it employs

Sustainability consultant Dr David Strong tells Pat Thomas why the way we think about sustainable building needs to be demolished and rebuilt

Many dutiful recyclers feel rightly frustrated that so few of their carefully washed bottles and cans put out each week seem to make their way back into the same product.

William McDonough highlights the wastefulness and environmental impacts of modern design and manufacturing and proposes a whole rethink of the process.

Next time you grumble that it's too much effort to seperate you plastic from your cans, imagine doing it as the bullets are flying over head

It’s the greener way to go, but it seems bicycling can tackle everything from health issues to homelessness. Claire Baylis learns the meaning of true pedal power.

A catastrophic spill of fly ash has renewed calls for the waste to be reclassified.

It has been a long and bitter struggle. When locals who had for years enjoyed the peace and tranquillity of Thrupp lake at Radley, Oxfordshire, learned that it was to be filled with fly-ash from Didcot power station, they assumed that a small but vocal protest would help see off the plans.