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A City Recycles: Cambridge
This article looks at how the City of Cambridge, in the South-East of England, through its Council and its local community, deals with its waste, and how it implements a recycling policy....
A Wartime Wife's Thrifty Tips: A Case Study
One wartime wife shares a few of the tricks she and thousands like her employed to ensure that although supplies were short, life on the home front could carry on....
A Wormary: Alternative Home Composting Systems
This article examines the benefits of wormeries, and explains how to create one and start the process off....
Anaerobic Digestion: Alternative to Composting
Anaerobic digestion offers an alternative means to deal with green waste and with energy production as its major selling point, this less familiar approach certainly has its attractions....
Are Edible Wrappers the Future of Food Packaging?
New kinds of edible wrappings could change the way some foods are packaged forever; light in weight, fully biodegradable and able to enhance foodstuffs, their future looks exciting....
Are Plastic Bags Always a Bad Thing?
Plastic bags have become symbols of our throw-away culture, but are they always such a bad thing? Examining some of the less well-known issues produces an unexpected answer....
Are Webbing Slings Recyclable?
A question about whether nylon & polyester webbing slings are recyclable....
Australia's Western Corridor Water Recycling Scheme
Facing prolonged droughts, a changing climate and a fast growing population, the state of Queensland adopted a bold, new approach to meeting its needs with recycled water....
Bacteria Brew Plastic from Wastewater
Plastic from bacteria? It sounds too good to be true, but recent research has found a cheap and energy efficient way to make clean, ‘green’ plastic from wastewater....
Brighten the Landscape With Recycled Art
Eco-friendly art is springing up all over the UK as individual artists, cultural organisations and community groups find eyecatching ways to increase their recycling....
Building Materials
This article looks at ways to recycle and prevent the wastage of building materials....
Campaign to Reduce Plastic Carrier Bags
A campaign involving supermarkets has led to a welcome reduction in the number of plastic carrier bags being issued in the UK...
Campaigning Student Encourages Sustainability: A Case Study
Many people now recycle on a regular basis but a campaigning student in London has taken things a step further and is encouraging retailers to support sustainable and re-usable products....
China Goes Green in Recycling Effort
This article looks at the global problem of plastic bags, and how China is trying to address it....
Choose Your Christmas Tree Carefully
Give our planet a Christmas gift this year by choosing the most environmentally-friendly tree....
Cleaning Up Recycled Water With Reeds: Case Study
Wessex Water’s groundbreaking research with reed beds could help meet the tough demands of new European legislation and revolutionise the way the water industry removes excess nutrients from wastewate...
Communities Recycling - A Case Study
This article examines the work and future plans of the Sustainable Girton Project, as an example of a village community working together on sustainability issues....
Community Recycling Initiatives
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Composting
This article looks at the benefits of composting, and gives some tips on how to get started....
Composting Almost Everything
This article looks at methods of composting food and other materials....
Composting as a Community
This article looks at community composting initiatives across the UK....
CSI Dustbin: The World of Forensic Waste
Your dustbin says a lot about you - and for a criminal, that is not good news; looking at some of the ways forensic science and dustbins can help solve crime....
Cutting 'Recycling Miles'
We all know about food miles, but it's not only what we eat that sometimes travels long distances around the world. It's time to think about cutting recycling miles too....
Eco-Schools
This article examines an exciting new programme of sustainable education and action taking place in schools across the UK....
Educating About Recycling
This article looks at ways to educate children and adults, and the wider community, about recycling and the issues that make up the topic....
Encouraging Children to Recycle
This article looks at the many ways to encourage children to recycle, both in the home and at school....
Energy from Waste
The idea of generating energy from waste has an obvious appeal and with a number of different technologies available, it’s not just about incineration....
Everyday Rubbish & Recycling
This article introduces the exercise of checking a household's rubbish to see if they can become better recyclers....
Facts and Trivia About Waste
Waste is a surprisingly fascinating topic, so here are one or two quick facts that you might find interesting along with a few funnies to raise a smile...
From Landfill Site to Environmental Park: A Case Study
A look at the innovate environmental education created from a landfill site at the Hiriya in Israel....
Generating Power From Waste
This article looks at the question of using waste to generate energy, and gives 2 examples of how this can happen....
Green Funerals : Recycling Our Remains
The environmental problems associated with standard funerals, and the benefits of a greener burial....
Grey Water Recycling
Whatever your reasons for wanting to conserve water – environmental, ethical or economic, or even a mixture of all three – grey water recycling could just be the answer....
Haiti's Earthquake Changed My View of Recycling: A Case Study
When a French nurse with Haitian ancestry what had happened to her grandmother’s country, it made her re-evaluate her own attitudes to waste and recycling in a big way!...
History of Recycling
This article looks at the human history of recycling waste products....
How Drinking Water is Treated
In a country as well provided with water as Britain, where a clean supply flows reliably from our taps, we don’t often think about what’s involved in making it possible....
How to Recycle Our Office Telephones?
Sadly, although many organisations recycle old mobile phones and office computer equipment, it is rarely possible to recycle or sell your old landline telephones....
How To Recycle Used Gas Canisters
Looking at ways to recycle used gas canisters....
How to Shop Sustainably
These days, we are all constantly reminded about the importance of recycling - but if you shop sustainably in the first place, you’ll be doing the planet an even bigger favour....
How to Turn an Old T-shirt Into a Cool New Cushion
Instead of binning favourite but outdated t-shirts, you can turn them into cool cushions for yourself or a friend. You can brighten them up by adding sequins, beads or even create a patchwork effect....
How Waste is Sorted
Have you ever wondered what happens to your recyclables once you’ve put them out in the appropriate box, bag or bin? The answer might just surprise you....
How Will Tyre Recycling Business Affect Locals?
Since the EU banned the disposal of used tyres to landfill in 2003 there has been an increase in planning applications for tyre recycling/shredding plants across the country - but what are the health ...
Ideas for Recycling Wine Bottle Corks?
Several ideas about how to recycle wine bottle corks....
Incineration: An Alternative to Landfill
Although the UK has a long historical dependency on landfill, some people feel that incineration and associated energy recovery could provide a good alternative way to dispose of Britain’s waste....
Keeping Green Waste Out of Landfills
Green waste causes major environmental problems in landfills, but legislation, householder effort and the growth of composting schemes are all helping to keep the problem at bay....
Local Recycling Facilities
This article examines what we can expect from our local municipal and community recycling facilities....
London Recycling
This article examines the different policies toward recycling and waste management employed by the London Councils of Richmond and Barnet....
Making Water Fit to Drink - With Tree Seeds!
Millions die every year in the developing world for want of clean water; now a remarkable technique to purify water - using tree seeds - might be about to change all that....
Methane and Leachate: Landfill Problems
Methane-rich landfill gas and potentially polluting leachate are two serious potential problems for landfill sites and their operators, but fortunately they are now much better controlled than in earl...
Microbes: Forgotten Recycling Helpers
How some of the oldest - and often forgotten - forms of life on the planet play an essential role in helping us recycle our waste....
Mobile Phone Recycling for Cash or Charity
Recycling your unwanted or broken mobile phone will help the environment by conserving energy and cutting down on landfill pollution - and you could even get a decent cash payment for it!...
More Environmentally Friendly to Use Glass Milk Bottles?
Using glass milk bottles is less harmful to the environment and requires virtually no recycling; here we examine why...
Nappies and the Environment
This article examines the choice between either disposable or reuseable nappies, with a focus on their environmental impact....
NASA's Revolutionary Approach to Recycling Sewage
Rocket science and sewage treatment don’t normally go together, but as this novel approach to harnessing NASA developed technology shows, when they do, the sky’s the limit!...
New Law to Promote Battery Recycling in the UK
Find out about new legislation in the UK which means battery producers must pay for collection and recycling and shops selling batteries are now legally obliged to provide a collection point for used ...
Politics of Recycling
This article looks at how recycling has become a political issue, and examines some recycling legislation by way of example....
Power from Sewage in Wales: Case Study
How one of the most efficient biogas production plants in the UK is helping the water industry slash its carbon footprint and generate enough electricity to export to the grid....
Purchasing Power
This article looks at ways consumers can take control over the mountain of packaging that items come encased in....
Putting Your Household Containers to Another Use
This article looks at ways of reusing and recycling the packaging and plastic containers that food comes in....
Questionaire: How Much Does Your Household Recycle ?
This simple and fun questionaire allows you to easily assess you and your families commitment to recycling....
Questionnaire: Can You Tell Recycling Fact from Fiction?
You hear all sorts of fascinating bits of trivia about recycling, but can you tell a genuine fact, from a great big fib? Try our quick quiz to find out....
Questionnaire: Do You Speak the Language of Recycling?
Recycling has a jargon all of its own, which can sometimes seem like a foreign language. Here’s a quick quiz to see how fluent you are....
Questionnaire: How Much Do You Know About Waste?
If you've ever wondered how much you know about the wonderful world of waste, here's a quick and fun quiz to help you find out....
Questionnaire: What Sort of Recycler Are You?
Everyone recycles - but for many different reasons; this quick little quiz will help you decide what sort of a recycler you are and what motivates you to do your bit....
Questionniare: Is Yours a Top Recycling Household?
If you’ve ever wondered how well your household ranks in the recycling stakes, then here’s a quick and light-hearted quiz to help you find out....
Reclamation Sites
This article examines the work and function of Reclamation Centres, and what products are available at them....
Recycling Aluminium
This article examines the need to recycle aluminium, and how the process works....
Recycling Around The World
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Recycling at Christmas
This article looks at ways consumers can recycle the waste products from christmas....
Recycling Batteries
This article looks at how crucial batteries are to our daily lives, and how we can recycle them....
Recycling Books
This article explores the options available in recycling unwanted books....
Recycling Campaign to Help Sick Babies: A Case Study
A near tragedy in the family turned one woman into a 'pleasantly persistent' unofficial advocate of recycling printer cartridges to help a babies' charity save lives....
Recycling Cans
This article examines the process of recycling steel cans, and gives tips on where to take them to recycle....
Recycling Cardboard
This article examines cardboard as a major component of household and business waste, and explores how it can be recycled....
Recycling CDs
This article explores the growth in consumer use of compact discs (CD's), and explains the options in reusing and recycling them....
Recycling Clothes
This article explores ways in which to recycle clothes, and explains the process of recycling cloth and textiles....
Recycling Electronics
This article examines the consumer revolution in buying electronics, and explores how to deal with this growing pile of e-waste....
Recycling Glass
This article explores the history and production of glass, and explains why we should recycle glass....
Recycling Metals
This article looks at the production of and opportunities to recycle metal....
Recycling Old Spectacles
This article looks at ways of recycling unused and unwanted spectacles, without them going into landfill sites....
Recycling Paper
This article explores our reliance on paper, how it is made, and how it can be recycled....
Recycling PC's and Protecting Your Data
This article looking at ways to protect data on computers and how to
recycle computers once they die....
Recycling Plastic
This article explores the history and role of plastic in our lives today....
Recycling Sewage: Heat from Dung
This article looks at examples of how sewage, both raw and dried, is used as a resource, and examines whether it can be fully utilized as a resource....
Recycling Symbols Explained
This article looks at the symbols most commonly associated with recycling...
Recycling Tyres
This article looks at how tyres are made, and some of the ways in which they can be re-used and recycled....
Recycling Water With Reed Beds
Reed beds are quite literally one of the greenest ways to recycle water, able to clean up everything from a single dwelling’s wastewater to some quite serious industrial effluents....
Recycling White Goods
This article looks at the term white goods - what they are and how to recycle them safely....
Recycling, Personal Information and Identity Theft
We all watch what we throw away to make sure we don’t get caught out, but we don’t always apply the same thinking to what we recycle; time to start!...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
This article explores the meaning of the phrase ' reduce, reuse, recycle ' and gives some tips on how to do each of them....
Reducing Your Food Waste
Some tips on how to reduce domestic food waste....
Rules Governing Use of Recycling Logo
There are rules and regulations governing the use of recycling logos and also how items marked with these items are disposed of - here we look at these rules and examine their effectiveness...
Storing Recycled Waste at MOD bases
The current situation whereby recyclable material will be stored at MOD bases in the UK....
Supporting Recycling Initiatives
This article looks at various recycling initiatives, such as eco and re-design, and encourages the reader to support recycling in all its many forms....
Sustainability and Recycling
This article looks at the links between sustainability and recycling, and how one affects the other....
The 4th 'R' Repair
This article looks at the art of repairing things - from clothes to ceramics, and reccomends that the reader take up this ancient art....
The Anthropology of Rubbish and Recycling
This article looks at what excavations of our ancestors rubbish can tell us, and offers a warning for this generation....
The Art of Recycling
This article examines the potential of making art from recycled objects, and encourages the reader to give it a go....
The Benefits of Compost
While many of the benefits of compost are universally known, there's definitely far more to this familiar material than meets the eye!...
The Thermal Recycling Controversy
Is thermal recycling the salvation to our problems of difficult waste and expensive energy, or is it just incineration by another name?...
Turning Cast Off Clothes Into Art: A Case Study
A keen recycler from Manchester explains how you can turn old clothes and other cast-off materials into works of art....
Turning Italian Rubbish Into Energy: Case Study
As the anaerobic digestion plant at Mantova demonstrates, a good design and careful management is the key to turning organic waste into methane-rich biogas....
Turning Seashore Rubbish Into Knitted Art: Case Study
How retiring to the seaside released one woman’s inner artist and led to a whole new hobby creating recycled 3D fabric art....
Turning Winery Wastewater Into Power: A Case Study
Wastewater tends to be seen as a problem rather than a valuable source of energy, but as a demonstration project at a California winery shows, that could soon change....
Understanding the Natural Water Cycle
Water is the original recycled material, endlessly moving between seas, clouds, soils and rivers. Recognised for thousands of years, only now are we really starting to understand it....
Using Algae to Clean Up Agriculture
While many people believe that algae could be the future of biofuels, it seems there’s a role waiting for them right now when it comes to recycling agricultural minerals....
Water: The Ultimate Recycled Material
This article looks at ways we can save, reduce, and recycle water....
Ways to Recycle Wood
Even though wood is a sustainable material, there are still benefits to recycling it. Britain’s long-established wood recycling industry is developing new ways to use woody waste all the time....
Ways to Reduce Packaging and Household Waste
This article looks at ways the consumer can reduce their packaging and household waste, and truly 'slim their bin'....
What Do the Numbers on Plastic Bottles Mean?
Plastic bottles and other containers are branded with recycling codes (within the chasing arrows logo) to clarify the polymer used. We look at the codes and examples of how the different polymers can ...
What Does the Future Hold for Recycling
This article offers some ideas for the future of recycling....
What Happens to Our Waste?
This article looks at the issue of landfil in the UK, and describes the process of dealing with waste at a landfill site....
What is Recycling?
This article examines what recycling is, and briefly explores why we need to do it....
What to Do With Your Unwanted Plastic Carrier Bags?
Plastic carrier bags are bad news for the environment but if you have them around the house, make the most of them by re-using for a variety of tasks instead of just throwing them away....
What's in the Average Home's Waste?
Understanding the materials that make up the average home's waste is an essential part of ensuring that recycling can keep up with the changing times....
What's the Best Way to Dispose of Electronics?
Find out how and why you should dispose and recycle your elecontric and electrical devices safely and responsibly....
Where Does Your Water Come From?
Where your water comes from is a much more interesting question than you might think - and there’s a lot more to the answer than ‘the sky’ or ‘my tap’!...
Why Should We Recycle?
This article looks at the urgency of why we must recycle our waste, rather than put it in the dump....