Ask a child what he wants to be when he grows up, and you’re more likely to hear ‘TV star’ than ‘waste hauler’. But, in this modern world of reality television, it turns out the two are not mutually exclusive.

In the last year the textile manufacturer Hainsworth has seen its sales of woollen coffins shoot up by 700 per cent.

Trading standards officers in Derby found themselves in a difficult (although I’m sure some would say enviable) position after confiscating over 700 litres of bootlegged alcohol in the run-up to Christmas last year.

Recently, one of the recycling sector’s news websites carried a story under the heading of ‘Church takes cool stance on “resource”’. At first glance, it made me muse briefly on why the Church of England had seen fit to make a policy statement about waste and resources...

These days, concerns about chemical-based agriculture are enormous. So Michael Phillips’s new book The Holistic Orchard, in which he explains how to grow orchards ‘the holistic way’, couldn’t have arrived at a better time.

Readers of Resource will be more than aware of the problems that the world is currently facing: overpopulation, unsustainable growth, inequality, species extinction, global warming, peak oil...

If the government eventually goes through with banning wood waste from landfill, we’ll need to find something to do with all our waste beams, boards, panels and rafters. Here are some ideas that are already on the market

As the UK edges ever closer to recycling more than it discards, talk increasingly turns to questions about the circular economy and zero waste. Marcus Gover spoke to Resource about how WRAP is addressing them.

Even in a recession, the need to be sustainable at home and at work does not go away. Chris Humphrey takes a look at the steps businesses can take in the quest for resource efficiency, from building a new green office to improving the efficiency of an existing one.

The remanufacturing industry employs 50,000 people and generates £2.4 billion for the UK economy, but it is not always embraced or promoted with the same warmth as the better-known Rs. The current economic climate just might provide the perfect conditions for investment