The best features in recycling

04 Feb 2012
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Flat-packed sustainability
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. The megalith of flat packing has teamed up with the Furniture Re-use Network to offer...

 
In the right spirit
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

 
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 ELV Technician Simon Dalton for a day

 
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 infrastructure we require and where we can improve. Leonie Butler rolls up her sleeves and digs in to...

 
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 the need to offer services that help us. And leading the way is Currys, as Will Simpson learns

 
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 visited the Glastonbury Festival site to find out

 
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 Savoy, a hotel steeped in history and ‘world firsts’, where you can be green without lifting a finger.

 
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 flaws in relying on reported data, and considers some of the barriers to participation

 
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 has taken to reduce packaging

 
 

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