From hair to hay, here are some lesser-known things put in your garden waste bin – as well as one surprising thing you ...

Doug McMaster runs the UK’s only zero waste restaurant, Silo, in Brighton, but rather than wanting to keep this title to himself, he wants to start a “zero food waste flash mob” by teaching ...

Total global waste is expected to double from nearly 2 billion tonnes in 2016 to an estimated 4 billion tonnes by 2050 as consumer-oriented urban populations grow. As population growth increases ...

Plastic waste dumped in landfill could be cleared sooner than expected, after engineers developed an enzyme that can break it down in just a few hours. Millions of tons of plastic is left abandoned ...

The CEO of Tesco is urging businesses around the world to do more to tackle food waste, saying it is "the right thing to do". Dave Lewis said that reducing food waste "makes sense for business".

Designers Seongil Choi and Fabio Hendry have developed a process to make craft designs from the waste product of 3D printing. They use the leftover nylon powder from the most popular kind of 3D ...

Working electrical goods, furniture and other reusable items dumped at Wokingham’s two recycling centres are to be donated to charity. Working electrical goods, furniture and other reusable items ...

An international team of experts undertaking fundamental research has developed a way of using polyethylene waste (PE) as a feedstock and converted it into valuable chemicals, via light-driven ...