Trash turned into treasure, waste fines versus incentives, food for thought and green sea lions...

San Francisco has announced an 80 per cent landfill diversion rate. Jessica Lockey finds out how the city has reached this milestone, and what we can learn from the ‘greenest city’ in the US.

Her Majesty The Queen opens the ‘world’s first’ recycling plant capable of recycling disposable coffee cups.

Waste management company, Shanks Group plc, commences building work on its new waste treatment facility in Wakefield.

The European Commission is seeking ideas on how to reduce food waste and create a more sustainable food system.

Nike launches app to inform designers of the environmental footprint of clothing materials, to encourage 'lower impact'.

Reuse and remanufacture ‘key’ to resource security, but government must ‘act now’, warns Circular Economy Task Force.

The UK could have a ‘modern decarbonised’ electricity sector now, but politics is holding it back, finds Zero Carbon Britain.

Brighton & Hove City Council is to replace its city centre recycling service with communal recycling bins by March 2014.

SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT and SITA UK are to invest in Solvert Ltd to develop renewable chemicals from organic waste.