When I was a child, I spent many a rainy day digging into my ‘craft box’, making paper wall hangings, plasticine figurines, beaded jewellery and other treasures.

Casting my mind back to a particular science lesson at school, I remember quite clearly a teacher declaring that we had already pushed climate change too far, that no degree of cutting back could undo...

It turns out that sustainability does not necessarily entail fashion sacrifice. Emma Rose discovers five clothing lines that offer ethically-sourced clothes that help the environment, and you to look good

A hotel stay usually means ‘getting away from it all’ – for business or pleasure – and keeping up our green practices can be tricky. Not so at the recently reopened Savoy, a hotel steeped in history and ‘world firsts’, where you can be green without lifting a finger.

Mal Williams, CEO of Cylch, thinks the need for increasing real, quality recycling is in danger of being lost in the maelstrom of strategy, quantitative targets, legislation and activities and the search for better metrics

With Wales and Scotland speeding along a zero waste path and residual arisings dropping off around the UK...

While householders produce less than 10 per cent of the UK’s waste, the construction sector is responsible for around one third of total arisings. What’s being done to target this mountain of rubble? Will Simpson investigates

‘Reduce’ may be the first of the 3Rs, but it’s also the most neglected and hardest to crack. Libby Peake journeys into the average consumer’s mind to find out why, and what can be done to help

The plight of e-waste scavengers has been well documented, but not well tackled. All that is set to change – in Nigeria at least – as British academics have initiated a project to educate the workers. Emma Rose reports

Following delays in the transposition of the revised Waste Framework Directive into UK law, concerns are emerging that the final UK interpretation may not adhere to the spirit of the directive. Charles Newman reports