Should we be a bit more cautious when it comes to playing with fire?

With food waste being converted into plane fuel, it looks like we might have caught up with (back to) the future. Leonie Butler considers the mile-high food-waste fuel

Can you have infinite growth on a finite planet? Of course not. And while government and big business ignore this fact, a growing number of local, grassroots movements are rebuilding on a more human, sustainable scale.

Resource has come up with its list of top ten difficult to recycle household items and wants to hear from you about your waste management bugbears

A hotel stay usually means ‘getting away from it all’ – for business or pleasure – and keeping up our green practices can be tricky. Not so at the recently reopened Savoy, a hotel steeped in history and ‘world firsts’, where you can be green without lifting a finger.

Light, versatile and airtight, the aerosol is a popular (and highly recyclable) package capable of storing and dispersing foam, paste, dry or wet spray, gel, cream or powder. Leonie Butler looks at what is being done to keep them in the recycling the loop

Oil spills don’t just damage ecosystems, they also create great amounts of waste that need to be disposed of. Libby Peake investigates what happens to the mess that cleans up the mess

Recycling is taking increasing prominence in the public’s environmental consciousness, but this doesn’t necessarily translate into behaviour. Rachel England examines the flaws in relying on reported data, and considers some of the barriers to participation

Wise business doctors that can diagnose and prescribe, or quacks that will take your money and run? With the consultancy market more competitive now than ever before, and budget restraints meaning people want to hold on to their money...

Waste management is nothing new, nor is the science of working out what’s being thrown away. Julian Parfitt of Resource Futures considers the history and methodology of compositional analysis