Actress Joanna Lumley has today launched a nationwide recycling campaign to highlight the massive amount of extra waste generated during the festive season, and to encourage households to take action to recycle this waste. 
The campaign is being run by Recycle Now, and will encourage householders to recycle their old Christmas trees, compost their vegetable peelings and […]

Wakefield Metropolitan District Council has chosen the defence specialist company, VT Group, as its preferred bidder to design, build, finance and operate waste management and recycling facilities in the areas under its jurisdiction as part of a programme valued at more than £700m.
VT Group will begin construction of new facilities and infrastructure in 2009, and […]

Waverley council in Surrey has been recognised as the best council in England for promoting recycling and reducing the amount of household waste being sent to landfill.  Waverley council, which covers Farnham, Godalming and Haslemere, was recognised by Defra for having the “largest decrease in total household waste per head”.
Councillor John Sandy of Waverley council said:
“In […]

The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has expressed concern about the municipal waste management performance of the city.  Livingstone’s announcement from last week came in reaction to figures published by Defra that showed regional recycling rates ranged from 22% in London to up tp 35% in the East Midlands and South West.
Mr Livingstone said, “These latest […]

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has today published figures which show that the proportion of household waste being recycled in England has broken the 30% barrier for the first time.  The figures show that municipal waste being recycled or composted increased from 27.1 per cent in 2005/06 to 30.7 per cent […]

According to figures released by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), British households dispose of 6.7 million tonnes of food waste each year.  To help reduce this figure, a national campaign to reduce food waste in the UK has been launched.  The campaign carries the slogan “Love Food Hate Waste“. 
WRAP Chief Executive, Dr Liz Goodwin, said:
“It is […]

The controversial ‘pay as you throw’ tax is set to go ahead as originally planned.  It had been thought that the plan had been dropped following last minute intervention from Downing Street.  However there has once again been a u-turn and English councils will be allowed to pilot the ‘pay as you throw’ charges.
The UK […]

The long awaited announcement that councils would be allowed to impose a tax on households that do not recycle properly has been scrapped.  The controversial plan for “pay as you throw” rubbish charges was expected to be unveiled by The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) later this week. 
The proposals were shelved […]

A survey by the Local Government Association has suggested that the leading supermarkets are still using too much packaging on their products, which is hindering our household recycling efforts.  The survey covered 29 common food items and six leading supermarkets - Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Lidl and Marks & Spencer.  
The results showed that up to 40% of […]

I stumbled across this great video by Hank Green at EcoGeek.org which gives an easy to follow guide on how to reuse and recycle an old laptop. The idea of the guide is to show people how to remove parts of an old laptop that can be reused or sold on Ebay, before sending the […]