Metal bin manufacturer, Taylor, has signed a £50k contract with the City of London Corporation to provide some of the city’s largest estates with a new waste management system.

Lee Marshall joins Hyder Consulting (UK) Limited as Technical Director.

PET recycler ECO Plastics has opened an extension to their bottle recycling facility in Hemswell, Lincolnshire, making it the world’s largest plastics processing facility of its kind.

DCLG’s Weekly Collection Support Scheme for waste collection services has published the criteria needed for local authorities to submit their outline bids, but a survey undertaken by the Sunday Telegraph has found the scheme to be largely unpopular for residual waste

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...

As the rag and bone man with his horse-drawn carriage fades to memory, a new breed of informal recyclers, looking for metals and things that other people have left behind, is on the increase. Leonie Butler reports

‘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 packaging industry looks favourably on cartons for beverage storage, but there are significant challenges to ensure they are recycled. Leonie Butler examines UK collection efforts

We produce too much waste and consume too much energy. Gasification and pyrolysis won’t change this, but can they help us deal with both issues? In the final instalment of our renewable energy series, Libby Peake gets to grips with advanced thermal treatments