Roger Ackling obituary
Artist who worked with the rays of the sun and flotsam from the seashoreRecycling material and harnessing the power of the sun, the artist Roger Ackling, who has died aged 66 from motor neurone...
View ArticleGlastonbury goes green: festival declares war on plastic water bottles
Reusable steel bottles to be distributed as 400 drinking-water taps are erectedNext weekend's Glastonbury festival is to combat the scourge of the plastic water bottle as part of a long-term strategy...
View ArticleOn the joys of recycling | Katharine Whitehorn
Recycling can take on myriad forms, whether it's making new use of old materials, rehashing ideas or recombining flavoursI was watching the news. Apparently some kinds of yogurt pots, though...
View ArticleWorld's first fully recyclable paper cup to hit UK high streets
'Cardboard' bottle creator produces cup design aimed at cutting 25,000 tones of landfill waste a yearThe world's first fully recyclable paper cup will soon make its debut on the UK high street, in a...
View ArticleWant rich, crumbly compost the easy way? Become a worm listener
John Walkers method is so foolproof, even the squeamish will succeed. Follow these tips and wriggly workers will do the restIf you cant make some crumbly, dark brown garden compost my way, then all...
View ArticleUntouchable to indispensable: the Dalit women revolutionising waste in India
Pune has give an army of mostly Dalit ('untouchable') women the sole rights to collect and recycle the city's mountains of trashMassive solid waste accumulation has become an environmental, health and...
View ArticleCan the UK meet a 70% recycling target?
The EU will announce new recycling targets today, with the likely objective to be 70% by 2030. But is it achievable? With your help, Karl Mathiesen investigates.Let us know your thoughts. Post in the...
View ArticleGerman cities accused of freezing out poverty-stricken bottle collectors
Empty bottles can be redeemed at supermarkets, but collectors have become increasingly controversial in German citiesAs the streams of fans moved towards the Brandenburg Gate to watch Germany's World...
View ArticleUK councils could be required to recycle 70% of waste by 2030
Proposals from European commission would require a significant increase in the proportion of UK waste diverted from landfillCouncils will have to recycle 70% of household waste by the end of the next...
View ArticleDell e-waste director: don't ban secondhand computers
To bridge the digital divide, Africa needs to see waste as a resource then build an infrastructure to reap the benefitsLife in Sodom and Gomorrah: the world's largest digital dump - in picturesWhy is...
View ArticleSustainable blog of the week: Westwick Dreaming
Becky and Josh on the inspiration for their sustainable lifestyle when moving to the Derbyshire countryside with their babyWhat inspired you to live more sustainably, and to write about it?Josh: I...
View ArticleFive of the best reusable coffee cups
Every year we throw away 2.5bn disposable cups. Our writer has a coffee or five trying a selection of reusable drinking vesselsWhy is it beyond us to hold onto a coffee cup? Ed Gillespie ponders the...
View ArticleWake up and smell the coffee: it's time to carry a reusable cup
We throw away mountains of disposable cups every year. It's time to address our ineptitude and carry a cup with usWant to buy a reusable coffee cup? We've tried them out for youWe have a lot of green...
View ArticleThe house that 20,000 toothbrushes built
Who needs boring bricks? The house of the future will be made of trouser legs, VHS tapes and blowtorched carpet tilesDuncan Baker-Brown has seen the future of housing and it's rubbish. "It's a...
View ArticleHow to mend ... an inkjet printer
Frustrated by error messages, chips, or ink running out? Follow these handy tips and give your printer a longer lifeHow to mend a slow computerHow to mend broken headphonesThe business model adopted by...
View ArticleSustainable blog of the week: Westywrites
The anonymous blogger on how a greener lifestyle is always worth striving for, even if you don't fully succeedWhat inspired you to live more sustainably, and write about it?I saw a challenge on Twitter...
View ArticleHow to mend ... a leather sofa
Ingenious tips to fix common sofa problems including stubborn or sticky stains, wear and tear, watermarks and spillagesHow to mend a scratch on wooden furnitureHow to mend a plastic chairYou will need...
View ArticleWhy the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design
Piped water may be the greatest convenience ever known but our sewage systems and bathrooms are a disasterBathrooms and toilets - a history in picturesFor centuries, the people of London and other big...
View ArticleHow the web is helping waste-pickers clean up Bangalore's rubbish | Shreya...
I Got Garbage project brings informal waste recyclers in India's IT capital face-to-face with the people who create the rubbishBangalores streets have always been a concoction of smells, from roasting...
View ArticleSolar Decathlon Europe 2014 in pictures
Our pick of the winning and best entries from this year's international competition to design and build solar-powered houses, held in Versailles, France. Photographs by Lucien LungContinue reading...
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