A few weeks ago, Scotland’s recycling figures were published, leading to worries that the country will be unable to deliver on the ambitious targets imposed by the Scottish Government earlier this year. These targets aim to increase municipal recycling or composting rates to 40% by 2010, 50% by 2013, 60% by 2020 and 70% by 2025, with equally ambitious targets being set for landfill: the rate i...

The Telegraph has reported that Marks & Spencer suffered a humiliating blow recently in its pledge to become the greenest retailer in Britain, when it was announced that it had come bottom of a league of supermarkets in the amount of recyclable packaging that it uses. This comes despite the £200 million ‘eco plan’ which it launched l...

Glastonbury have launched the 'Love the Farm - Leave no Trace' initiative this year in an attempt to make the events of 2008 as eco-friendly as possible. Following a report that live events such as Glastonbury are responsible for around 75% of the whole of the music industry’s greenhouse gas emissions, organisers have decided to take a greener approach to the famous festival. T...

Drink tap water. It's brilliant The words of a water company? Surely not. Surprising though it may seem, this is in fact a clear indication of Belu water company's pure motives (although they might add: '…but if you are going to drink bottled water, drink ours'). Recycling can be difficult at the best of times but recycling plastic can be especially hard - many local councils ...

Supermarket giant ASDA has claimed that thousands of tonnes of packaging are heading needlessly to landfill, simply because hundreds of local councils only collect the "bare minimum” from householders. They will be opposing any "pay as you throw" tax on waste because of a “postcode lottery”, which they claim makes it impossible for many people to recycle packaging, despite the f...