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

International charity Computer Aid has announced it has shipped its 200,000th PC or laptop. Refurbished IT equipment provided by the organisation is used in Latin America and Africa to support the Millennium Development Goals of eradicating poverty, enriching education and i

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...

For more than 30 years, Bristol’s Children’s Scrapstore has been collecting unwanted scrap and distributing it to the public to enhance kids’ recreational experiences. We take a trip down to the charity to learn all about its different endeavours and the impacts of the...

Regularly featured in Resource’s Hot 100 list, Shlomo Dowen is leading the anti-incineration charge in the UK. We decided it was time to learn a bit more about the man - his background and his cause.

The need to reduce the carbon impact of waste (as well as its other impacts) is drastic in these days of manmade climate change. Though the European Commission continues to favour weight-based targets for waste, WRAP has worked with Defra and the Scottish Government to...

Most waste won’t kill you (in the short term), but there’s one type of waste that is far from a laughing matter: explosives – bombs and the accumulated detritus of mankind’s past conflicts. We speak to the experts to find out how to dispose of them safely.

Established 21 years ago by Shropshire Council, Oak Farm is a care farm for people with learning disabilities.

You might not have heard of Diageo, but you know its products: Smirnoff, Guinness, Baileys, Gordon's, José Cuervo and Johnnie Walker are just a handful of the company's owned brands. A hundred and seven million measures of Diageo's products are consumed worldwide ever