News, Off the Wall

Swap-o-matic

You don’t normally get much of a variation on your standard vending machine experience. Until now that is.

 

In sheep's clothing

In the last year the textile manufacturer Hainsworth has seen its sales of woollen coffins shoot up by 700 per cent.

 

Party fuel

Trading standards officers in Derby found themselves in a difficult (although I’m sure some would say enviable) position after confiscating over 700 litres of bootlegged alcohol in the run-up to Christmas last year.

 

Columns, Opinion

Resource, the artist formerly known as waste

Recently, one of the recycling sector’s news websites carried a story under the heading of ‘Church takes cool stance on “resource”’. At first glance, it made me muse briefly on why the Church of England had seen fit to make a policy statement about waste and resources...

 

Books, Reviews

The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way

These days, concerns about chemical-based agriculture are enormous. So Michael Phillips’s new book The Holistic Orchard, in which he explains how to grow orchards ‘the holistic way’, couldn’t have arrived at a better time.

 

Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform

Readers of Resource will be more than aware of the problems that the world is currently facing: overpopulation, unsustainable growth, inequality, species extinction, global warming, peak oil...

 

Products, Reviews

Into the woods

If the government eventually goes through with banning wood waste from landfill, we’ll need to find something to do with all our waste beams, boards, panels and rafters. Here are some ideas that are already on the market

 

Interviews Jobs, Jobs

A world without waste

As the UK edges ever closer to recycling more than it discards, talk increasingly turns to questions about the circular economy and zero waste. Marcus Gover spoke to Resource about how WRAP is addressing them.

 

Futurevision, Wider Sustainability, Innovations, Sustainability

Officially sustainable

Even in a recession, the need to be sustainable at home and at work does not go away. Chris Humphrey takes a look at the steps businesses can take in the quest for resource efficiency, from building a new green office to improving the efficiency of an existing one.

 

Futurevision, Retailers, Innovations, WEEE, Materials, Sustainability

Wider Sustainability, Waste Minimisation, Innovations, Sustainability

Ad nauseam

With adverts all around us, we’re all exposed to thousands of commercial messages a day – and children are no exception. Most people agree that this is bad for them, but what effect does it have on the environment and on waste generation? Libby Peake finds out.

 

Waste Law, Legislation

Latest, Tools, Innovations, Local Authorities

Streets ahead

You can’t just bung a bucket on the street and ask passers-by to deposit their waste in it – there’s a lot to think about with street-scene waste services. From eye-catching design to practicality and, increasingly, multi-functionality, bin design is anything but basic

 

Comment, WEEE Legislation, Legislation, Opinion

WEEE Legislation, WEEE, Materials, Legislation

Electric Shocks

The WEEE Directive has been enshrined in UK law for nearly a decade now, so we take a look at the (sometimes bumpy) road the legislation’s travelled and find out what turns lie ahead for future handling of waste electrical and electronic equipment.

 

Latest, Organics, Materials, Local Authorities

Reap what you sow

When weight-based recycling targets were first introduced, Defra money made free green waste collection services look like an easy win. But can local authorities continue to justify the expense (and the added waste generation) in these straightened times?

 

Community Sector, Other, Materials, Sustainability

News, Europe & World