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Redesigning wasteful products

One week left to nominate which wasteful items should be redesigned as part of...

Flat-packed sustainability

IKEA is a place to buy inexpensive furniture and sundries you never new you...

In the right spirit

You might not have heard of Diageo, but you know its products: Smirnoff,...

Wales opens consultation on waste infrastructure

Welsh Government calls for views on proposed changes to national planning policy to ‘help deliver waste infrastructure’.

EC launches contest to promote green solutions

European Commission launches The World You Like Challenge, a contest for green projects that tackle climate change.

New food think tank launches

New think tank launches to counter food waste, obesity and hunger and fix the ‘broken food system’.

Report calls for expansion of anaerobic digestion sector

The government is not realising the full potential of biogas, the independent thinktank, CentreForum, has said in a report due to be published tomorrow (4 July).

End of the road

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...

Rubbish rummaging

They might get a bad rap in the Daily Mail and with certain government ministers, but waste auditors perform a valuable function, finding out how much we waste, what...

Retail value

As the public becomes more aware of the need to recycle the myriad of electronic devices accumulated in day-to-day living, so the business world becomes more aware of...

When the party’s over

Whatever your age or musical interests, there’s a festival catering for your entertainment. But how can you handle the mess made by these temporary towns? Libby Peake...

Resource's top ten difficult to recycle household items

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

Secretly savvy

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...

Unravelling the psychology of recycling

Recycling is taking increasing prominence in the public’s environmental consciousness, but this doesn’t necessarily translate into behaviour. Rachel England examines the...

On your Marks...

As the second phase of the Courtauld Commitment gets underway, Resource spoke to Helene Roberts, Head of Packaging for Marks & Spencer, about the steps the company...

Taking no prisoners

Think of a prison and you probably imagine a dark, desolate and perhaps even dirty environment. But think again: it turns out they've got many measures to divert...

Intelligent design

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?...