Members of the public and manufacturers are being asked to nominate what they think is the Best Recycled Product at The European Association of Plastics Recycling & Recovery Organisations’s (Epro) awards

A new beverage carton recycling plant is to open in 2013, the Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) and Sonoco Alcore have announced.

The United Nations Conference on Sustainability, Rio+20, began today (20 June), amid cries from environmentalists that the negotiated agreement is a “colossal failure”.

First our phones and now our clothes are going ‘smart’. But what price will the environment pay for newly-gadgetised attire?

It’s 2011. The world’s a little warmer, sea levels are a little higher and people in the Maldives are a little jumpier. And if Environment Secretary David Miliband is to be believed, part of the solution to climate change could lie in the pockets of the British public.

In 2003, the previous government launched a project with the aim of ‘encouraging the development of new technologies for the recovery of value and the diversion of biodegradable municipal waste from landfill’.

De-Inking Screen® [dē′iŋk·iŋ skrēn] A Bulk Handling Systems unit designed to separate cardboard and rigid fibre from newspaper and other flexible fibres.

Nearly 50 million waste tyres are generated every year in the UK, and they’ve been officially banned from landfill since 2006. Will Simpson follows the rubber trail to find out what happens to them

IKEA is a place to buy inexpensive furniture and sundries you never new you needed, but now it’s also a place to do the right thing by your pre-loved sofas, beds, chairs, etc...

Reduce, reuse, repurpose, and now upcycle… the latest green word is taking the world by storm. But what exactly is ‘upcycling’? Turns out it occupies the middle ground between reuse and recycle, whereby value is added to materials that are used for a different purpose...