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UK’s ‘first’ food recycling reward scheme launches

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead launches UK’s ‘first’ reward scheme for...

In character

What's it like to be a six-foot ten jumble of recyclable material adored...

NORTH KESTEVEN TOPS THE LEAGUE

Set in the heart of rural Lincolnshire, North Kesteven is the only area in the...

Gotta go (to the kerb)

At last there is a way of recycling absorbent hygiene products in the UK, but what happens when you take nappies out of the equation? Matilda Zatorski reports

Banking on deposits

South Australia has a very established deposit-refund scheme that has been operating since the ’70s. Susanna Prouse finds out how the system has evolved and whether...

Seeing is Believing

It is hoped that Defra's New Technologies visitor centres will transform the way waste is dealth with in the UK by showing local authority officers what the...

Cheltenham races

Jenny Dye investigates the fourth most improved council, Cheltenham Borough Council (CBC), which had a meteoric rise from 210th waste collection authority in 2010/11 to...

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Meeting waste targets - the PFI way

Private Finance Initiative, or PFI, is big news in the world of waste – and it is set to get bigger as it becomes an ever more important factor for local authorities...

'Ditch the Junk Mail' Campaign

As part of the 'Don't let Devon go to waste' partnership, Decon County Council is asking residents to sign up to the Mail Preference Service to cut down...

Counting carbon

The need to reduce the carbon impact of waste (as well as its other impacts) is drastic in these days of manmade climate change. Though the European Commission continues...

Reconfiguring your collection

When it comes to public services, those in charge view change with a degree of caution. People are creatures of habit, so introducing a new recycling system requires...

Designs on diversion

While householders produce less than 10 per cent of the UK’s waste, the construction sector is responsible for around one third of total arisings. What’s being done to...

Preventative measures

‘Reduce’ may be the first of the 3Rs, but it’s also the most neglected and hardest to crack. Libby Peake journeys into the average consumer’s mind to find out why, and...

Open for business

Authorities are rolling out domestic kitchen waste collections left, right and centre, but this might leave businesses feeling neglected. Not so in Islington, where a...

Staffordshire Moorlands: all things to all men?

Staffordshire Moorlands District Council topped the 2009 recycling league table and secured a favourable spot in the residual league table, Its secret is the support of...