The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has announced that a new network is being launched to improve the recycling of household items in the nation’s capital. The aim of the new network is to drastically reduce the amount of useable items that are being thrown away and ending up in landfill sites. The campaign was jointly launched with actress Joanna Lumley, and will receive £8 million...

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) have urged local councils to work together to ensure they are getting value from the material they collect. WRAP has also begun to investigate how to increase recycling rates for aluminium can and foil by working with the Beverage Can Makers Europe to analyse waste composition. This will include analysing what is stopping people from dec...

As with all things Apple, the iPhone 4, the latest version of the all-conquering smartphone, was released to a fanfare of hype and expectation last month. Desirable it may be, but priced at anywhere up to £600, it certainly doesn’t come cheap. That leaves many fans desperate to get their hands on the new phone facing a conundrum: how to afford the latest must-have gadget? Th...

The new coalition government would like to see local authorities making a return to weekly bin collections across the UK. Communities secretary, Eric Pickles, wants to scrap fortnightly bin collections claiming that they are "unpopular and unhygienic". He has written to the Audit Commission asking it to reverse its policy. Fortnightly bin collections were introduced s...

The waste problem in England is going to be addressed by a new review that the government has launched. Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary, announced the government’s decision to launch the review at the Futuresource conference in London. The government plans to review every aspect of waste strategy in the UK. It has been described as a “no-holds-barred look at every aspe...