Recycling Issues
Practical articles addressing current recycling challenges and sustainable living choices. Topics range from food waste reduction to funeral options and packaging alternatives.
Anaerobic Digestion: Alternative to Composting
Anaerobic digestion breaks down green waste without oxygen, offering a controlled alternative to composting that produces energy and cuts landfill use.
Are Edible Wrappers the Future of Food Packaging?
Companies are investing heavily in edible food wrappers to solve packaging waste, but can they actually work at scale.
Campaign to Reduce Plastic Carrier Bags
UK supermarkets cut plastic bag use by 3.5 billion annually through a retailer-led campaign.
Choose Your Christmas Tree Carefully
Real Christmas trees are better for the environment than artificial ones, which end up in landfill and release toxic chemicals during production.
Composting Almost Everything
Turn your kitchen scraps and garden waste into rich, dark soil that feeds your plants naturally.
Cutting 'Recycling Miles'
Recycled goods and materials often travel huge distances, adding unnecessary transport emissions, here's how to cut those miles.
Energy from Waste
Converting waste into energy through incineration and other methods tackles pollution and power generation at the same time.
Facts and Trivia About Waste
Most people throw away eight times their body weight in rubbish yearly – here are the eye-opening facts behind our waste.
Green Funerals: Recycling Our Remains
Conventional funerals pump bodies with chemicals and use polluting materials, but greener burial options can reduce the environmental impact of how we die.
How to Shop Sustainably
Cut down on waste by choosing reusable kitchen products and durable goods that save money over time instead of buying disposables.
Microbes: Forgotten Recycling Helpers
Bacteria and fungi do most of the work in composting and recycling, breaking down billions of tonnes of waste into useful materials every year.
Reducing Your Food Waste
Cut food waste at home by planning meals, buying smarter, and composting what you can't use.
Storing Recycled Waste at MOD Bases
The UK's waste industry is negotiating with military bases to store recyclable materials as landfill space runs out and recycling volumes surge.
The Benefits of Compost
Compost does more than recycle waste, it rebuilds soil with living organisms that boost fertility and plant health.
The Thermal Recycling Controversy
Thermal recycling promises to solve waste and energy problems, but critics argue it's just incineration dressed up with a friendlier name.
Turning Italian Rubbish Into Energy: Case Study
An Italian biogas plant shows how mixing farm manure with household waste creates clean energy while tackling local waste management.
What to Do with Your Unwanted Plastic Carrier Bags?
Give those plastic bags a second life with practical uses around your kitchen and home before recycling.
What's in the Average Home's Waste?
Most UK household bins contain about a third food waste, plus plastics, paper and items that could be recycled instead.