In 2003, the previous government launched a project with the aim of ‘encouraging the development of new technologies for the recovery of value and the diversion of biodegradable municipal waste from landfill’.

De-Inking Screen® [dē′iŋk·iŋ skrēn] A Bulk Handling Systems unit designed to separate cardboard and rigid fibre from newspaper and other flexible fibres.

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

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...

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.

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

The disposal of waste isn’t just a problem on earth. Though we spend a great deal of time collecting it, recycling it and shovelling it into landfill on this planet, it turns out there’s more of a problem circling above our heads.

Recycling collections are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with advances in vehicle design playing a crucial role. Charles Newman explores some of the new ideas that are emerging

Most of us have a vague notion of what happens to a car at the end of its life, but we wanted to get into the nitty gritty of vehicle depollution. Libby Peake shadowed ELV Technician Simon Dalton for a day