Many of the world’s plastics escape the waste management process and wind up with a second coming in the open ocean – turning into subtropical gyres, falling apart and damaging ecosystems as they do.

James Phillips and Sam Sandilands, experts in waste law, talk us through recent legal developments and explain how they will affect those in the waste sector

James Phillips and Ross Fairley get to grips with the latest modifications in environmental law

With the food industry becoming an ever more prevalent global energy guzzler, Sally White reports on how one company has overthrown greenwash in favour of some real academic research and a genuinely

Our landfills didn’t use to overflow with unnecessary packaging and obsolete products. Janine Derry looks at extended producer responsibility, a not-so-new idea that could ensure our landfills are free of products and packaging once more

Move over carbon, there’s a new footprint in town: it’s made out of water, it’s massive and it requires our immediate attention. Libby Peake learns that we’ve been ignoring the mounting crisis over the world’s water for far too long

Families with gardens can pop organic waste into a compost bin. Flat-dwellers lucky enough to have food waste collections can hand kitchen rubbish to the council.

As opinion over biodegradable plastics becomes divided, Leonie Butler investigates

With food and energy shortages being predicted, Neil Winship asks whether electricity from anaerobic digestion can be justified, given that aerobic composting with heat recovery can do more for our so

Everyone has an opinion about Government’s waste policies, but many in the sector are unwilling to act to shape them. Stephen Davidson argues that those with industry knowledge must engage with and in