waste disposal

What items you can and can't recycle can be confusing.

These are all the items you shouldn’t put in your recycling bin

Original team of volunteers at Food Rescue Hub, UK

These community projects are feeding people not landfill

People investigating small pieces of plastic found on a beach.

What are microplastics and why is everyone so worried about them?

Tonnes of illegally imported garbage was returned to Britain after Sri Lankan authorities refused to process it.

Body parts illegally shipped to Sri Lanka are returned to the UK

Chemicals found in batteries can be used to create plant food.

Don't throw away old batteries, feed them to your plants instead

How much food do we waste at Christmas?

Expert reveals how can you avoid food waste this Christmas

Composting at home

No more food will be sent to landfill in California, under new law

12/12/2021

Donkeys help locals clean the streets of the ancient Turkish city of Mardin

Street-cleaning donkeys in Turkey listen to Beethoven while they work

16/11/2021

Bonfire Night is celebrated in the UK on November 5th every year.

Bonfire Night: Are polluting fires harming hedgehogs and humans?

04/11/2021

Model Daisy Lowe was the first to trade her old smartphone in at the pub.

Pay for your drinks with old iPhones at this unique London pub

14/10/2021

An innocent baby, unaware of all the microplastics in her

Babies are full of microplastics, new research shows

01/10/2021

Ella Shone is the founder of TopUp Truck, a refill store on wheels that delivers plastic-free groceries to Londoners.

Green in the City

Meet the green entrepreneur helping Londoners quit supermarkets

22/09/2021

Millions of desktop PCs are lying idle in offices post-COVID

‘Global mountain’ of desktop PCs abandoned in offices due to COVID-19

09/08/2021

Rome is overflowing with rubbish

Anger rises as uncollected rubbish leaves stench on streets of Rome

13/07/2021

The amount of plastics which are dumped in the oceans annually poses a danger to our already endangered marine life

The top 10 countries that dump the most plastic into the ocean

22/06/2021

Green tech is on the rise in 2021

5 green tech start-ups out to change the world in 2021

09/03/2021

Alexandra Sipa from Central Saint Martins

Designer creates stunning dresses from discarded electrical wires

18/06/2020

Mu Ko Ang Thong National Park - a beach in Thailand

These holiday destinations need your help cleaning the beaches

11/08/2019