New legislation on the way we deal with waste portable batteries means big changes for the battery recycling industry. But just how are batteries sorted and recycled? And are they being recycled efficiently enough? Rachel England investigates

Strategy report from The World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Our counterparts Down Under are locking carbon into farmland using recycled organic waste, and it seems s simple as clicking their heels together. Will Simpson reports on the innovation and its potential impacts

Authorities are rolling out domestic kitchen waste collections left, right and centre, but this might leave businesses feeling neglected. Not so in Islington, where a commercial food waste collection trial has been expended to a mainstream service

Iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, gold, silver, aluminium… Metals come in many varieties – not to mention shapes and sizes. But how can you tell one from another?

Many of the world’s plastics escape the waste management process and wind up with a second coming in the open ocean – turning into subtropical gyres, falling apart and damaging ecosystems as they do.

As opinion over biodegradable plastics becomes divided, Leonie Butler investigates

Whatever happened to the washing machine that lasted a lifetime? Is it possible to (once again) design for disassembly-so that components can be reused or recycled? Libby Peake buckles up for a WEEE

Have you ever wondered how optical and laser laser sorters work? Did you get as far as the word 'spectroscopy' and decide it was too complicated? Here, Libby Peake explains the science behind the magi

In spite of being overlooked for many years by waste legislation in the UK, reuse seems to be experiencing somewhat of a boom of late. Henry Widdicombe and Libby Peake explore the relationship between