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UK environment and animal welfare charities are calling on businesses, governments and individuals to try harder to reduce waste – in particular plastic – this Christmas

Two and a half billion takeaway coffee cups are used every year in the UK and virtually none are recycled. Rory Tingle talks to Martin Myerscough, inventor of the world’s first fully recyclable [...]

A new report highlights billion-pound economy boost to be had in better resource efficiency

Pioneering furniture designers are turning their attention to issues of sustainability and recycling, and as Rooksana Hossenally discovers, there’s not a bamboo chair in sight

Bethany Wivell finds out how waste coffee grounds can be put to good use

British children donate 330,000 textbooks to pupils in Tanzania and Uganda

When things aren't working out, it's wise to deal with the root of the problem. Curitiba in Brazil offers an inspiring example of urban development.

India Recycled photographic exhibition explores the journey of clothing from UK charity shops to the pavement traders of North India.

Parisian artist and product designer, Mathieu Lehanneur, has fused artand science together to come up with a retro-futuristic pod, that usesthe recycling properties of plants to purify the air.

Recycle-more, Valpak's useful recycling information website, has recently launched a brand new text service.

Manchester's new education centre Waste Works project has proved a massive hit with local schools.

Five young people from Walton High School, Milton Keynes, will be going to Prague in May to represent their country at the 3rd annual Youth-Eco Parliament.

We need you to help us tell the people of Glasgow that they can recycle-more electrical items when they visit the collection facility at Easter Queenslie.

TreeStations are sites where woodland managers take their woody waste' to be recycled into useful materials like charcoal and chippings, both growing in popularity as economic and eco-friendly fuels.

A free lively exhibition around sustainable energies, resource awareness and recycling in and around house, garden and transport.

If you go down to The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) this Easter, you're in for a big surprise!

Plans for a controversial and potentially hazardous waste incinerator in East Sussex have been blocked until the Government can consider local [...]

Norwood, the children and family services charity, have teamed up with The Recycling Appeal to raise funds. Supporters are asked to send in their old mobile phones and empty printer cartridges [...]

The London-based environmental organisation, BioRegional, is inviting offices in the southeast to follow the example of the House of Commons and get their own back', by participating in a [...]