The Environment Agency recently released guidance on recovering street sweepings and gully emptyings with the aim of supporting waste authorities to manage this waste. Matt Bunting urges local authorities to think about recycling options

Ecomodo is an online community marketplace that enables members to lend and borrow objects, services and spaces ‘for free, for a fee or for charity’.

As part of the 'Don't let Devon go to waste' partnership, Decon County Council is asking residents to sign up to the Mail Preference Service to cut down on the amount of paper waste from junk mail.

Baghdadi and Kradokian, the 'Junk Munkez' create seats made out of repurposed washing machine drums.

Bill and Melinda Gates foundation have purchased 50 gallons of synthetic faeces.

Bristol college student Chloe Wright has created a dress made completely from old copies of the Daily Mail for her A-level textiles exam.

A landscape design company in Beijing has recently designed a 5,000 square metre hotel made completely of old shipping containers.

Rather than complain about plans to build an incinerator, the citizens of one Spanish region came up with an alternative solution in the form of intensive door-to-door waste collection. GAIA’s Joan Marc Simon tells the story

From setting up a centre to further ecodesign, to shooting a WEEE film, the activities of the waste prevention industry are endless. Resource finds out how some of the industry’s top professionals got to where they are now and what they get up to on a day-to-day basis

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has upgraded its Sustainable Waste Awareness Certificate.