Sainsbury’s and the Institute for Sustainability have launched a competition looking for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with innovative market ready, or close-to-market, solutions for low-carbon lighting and water saving.

Dr Philip Morton, CEO of the UK WEEE producer compliance scheme Repic, has been appointed as a director on the WEEE Forum board.

First our phones and now our clothes are going ‘smart’. But what price will the environment pay for newly-gadgetised attire?

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.

Recolight, the not-for-profit recycling scheme for lamps, has updated its online booking system for its business collection points and recyclers across the country.

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

Sam Sandilands keeps us abreast of all the latest happenings in waste law and recaps the rules surrounding the export of WEEE

The middle of the production story won’t change; we need chairs, tables and washing machines. But what about the beginning, what about the end? Can those bits of the lifecycle be made more efficient?

Whatever happened to the washing machine that lasted a lifetime? Is it possible to (once again) design for disassembly-so that components can be reused or recycled? Libby Peake buckles up for a WEEE

In spite of being overlooked for many years by waste legislation in the UK, reuse seems to be experiencing somewhat of a boom of late. Henry Widdicombe and Libby Peake explore the relationship between