Tracey Smith, founder of International Downshifting Week, takes a room by room look at what you can do to reduce your waste.

Taking a detailed look at the state of the world, this book offers practical talking points to where we should be headed in our race against climate change.

AS the recession hits consumers' pockets, Dr Adam Read analyses trends in waste arisings and asks: Can we have an impact?

Iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, gold, silver, aluminium… Metals come in many varieties – not to mention shapes and sizes. But how can you tell one from another?

Some bits of legislation have been implemented, whilst others have been revised or delayed. James Phillips and Ross Fairley keep us abreast of the latest developments

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Fifty companies, representing over 85 per cent of grocery retail by turnover, have now signed up to the on-pack recycling label launched last summer by the British Retail Consortium.

Peterborough has been awarded the first Zero Waste Places accreditation by Defra, the BREW Centre and Northampton Univeristy.

The first recycling targets to reflect the relative carbon savings of processing procedures could be introduced as early as 2011.

No easy solution for sustainable food. Though it wasn’t given as much attention as other sectors in the run-up to Copenhagen, food production accounts for nearly a quarter of humanity’s ecological footprint.