Local authority waste partnerships can provide much-needed relief in a financially-constrained environment, but as Rachel England finds, this can only happen if everyone’s on board

Totnes and District’s Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP), the first such document to come out of the burgeoning Transition movement, takes as its basis the idea that...

‘When it comes to suspicion and conspiracy theories, recycling rivals the assassination of John F Kennedy’, writes Lucy Siegle in her introduction to this refreshingly accessible guide to recycling.

American farmer and self-confessed expert on manure, Gene Logsdon, is on a mission to get us all talking about the value of shit.

Police are developing a national strategy to help reduce charity collection crimes. A trebling in the price of used clothing over the past three years has caused a rise in thefts by organised criminals, who are thought to be selling the clothes in Eastern Europe.

The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) has sparked a row by publishing a report detailing the ‘shocking disparity’ in the number of containers councils ask residents to sort waste into.

The European Parliament (EP) has backed ambitious plans that would require member states to collect 85 per cent of waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) by 2016, rather than the 65 per cent originally proposed.

A Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) report, commissioned by WRAP and carried out by Eunomia Research & Consulting, has added fuel to the kerbside sort versus commingled debate.

An Environment Agency study commissioned by the previous Labour government has examined the impact of different types of supermarket carrier bags.

I wonder if, like me, you were intrigued by the recent coverage of the Mars 500 project. Fascinating images were published of the journey to Mars being simulated in a Moscow scientific institute where...