Recycling Expert: How to Recycle and Reuse Your Waste

You'll discover brilliant ways to give your household items a second life with our expert guidance on recycling and reusing just about anything. Our knowledgeable team shares practical tips, local recycling options, creative reuse ideas, and answers all your questions to help you make a positive environmental impact. Recycling Expert is here to help.

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Are Webbing Slings Recyclable?

You don't say in what capacity you use these webbing lifting slings, but I would guess from what you say that they are being used in a hospital, care home or...

Building Materials

As any good scavenger will know discarded building materials can provide rich pickings, provided it is taken with the consent of the builder. Wood of all typ...

Energy from Waste

Claiming back some of the usefulness of material that would otherwise have simply been discarded has an obvious appeal and as a way of dealing with two of th...

Questionnaire: How Much Do You Know About Waste?

These days we’re all trying to do our bit to reduce waste, live sustainably and recycle as much as we can but if you’re really going to do the best that...

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Cleaning Up Recycled Water With Reeds: Case Study

Water may be the world’s most endlessly recycled material, but when it comes to turning wastewater into something clean and wholesome enough to be returned...

Questionnaire: Do You Speak the Language of Recycling?

Everyone’s talking about recycling, but how much of what we hear do we understand? Sometimes you’d be forgiven for thinking you’re listening to a forei...

Power from Sewage in Wales: Case Study

Power from poo – it’s an interesting, if slightly unsavoury, thought, and the water industry has been making it a reality for decades on a fairly small s...

The Thermal Recycling Controversy

The idea of getting energy from waste has a long history, and at different times and in different parts of the world, a variety of methods have been tried. T...

Questionniare: Is Yours a Top Recycling Household?

People can get awfully competitive over the things they do, and for some of us, recycling is no exception. Comparing our personal ‘diversion rate’ may no...

Turning Italian Rubbish Into Energy: Case Study

One of the most attractive features of anaerobic digestion (AD) is its potential to turn waste with a significantly high organic content into methane-rich bi...

Turning Seashore Rubbish Into Knitted Art: Case Study

For most people, the assorted flotsam and jetsam discarded by everything from cruise ships to fishing boats, coupled with the scattered remains of more munda...

Questionnaire: What Sort of Recycler Are You?

These days, we all recycle, but we all do it for different reasons, whether that’s a desire to be sustainable, conserve the environment, reduce the amount...

Are Plastic Bags Always a Bad Thing?

There’s probably no single item that has become quite such an iconic emblem of our throw-away culture as the plastic bag. Whether it’s images of them flo...

CSI Dustbin: The World of Forensic Waste

It’s no accident that archaeologists love old rubbish dumps. Excavating ancient tips can reveal a great deal about the lives of the people who used them, a...

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