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In the UK we are throwing away one third of the food we buy. That's like one in three bagfuls of food shopping going straight in the bin, costing us £10 billion a year.

Peterborough City Council is pressing ahead with plans for new recycling and energy-from-waste facilities that will prevent environmental damage caused when waste is buried in landfill sites.

Researchers at the University of Missouri claim that petroleum-based plastic may soon be replaced by a nonpolluting, renewable plastic made from plants.

Debbie Harry and Barbara Windsor are among the celebrities who have offered items from their own home to support charities assisting Britain's poorest people.

Excessive food packaging used by supermarkets is undermining householders' efforts to recycle more and is adding to council tax bills, according to a new report from the Local Government Association.

When you take your dead television to the municipal tip you expect it to go through a responsible process of recycling. However, a three-year investigation has shown that the only process one TV went through was to be loaded into a container headed for Nigeria.

Swale Borough Council and recycling company SWEEEP are launching a brand new recycling facility at Sainsbury's and ASDA's supermarkets in Sittingbourne, Kent, to which Swale residents can bring many unwanted electrical items.

Confusion is set to follow this week's snow falls as councils up and down the country cancel or rejig waste collection this week.

A new initiative from sustainability expert BioRegional is set to help the construction industry reduce the cost of dealing with waste by reusing waste building materials.

Environment Minister Jane Kennedy and Britain's leading supermarkets have agreed a 50 percent cut in the number of carrier bags given out by spring 2009.

Naturebotts offers help for reducing waste this Christmas by delivering orders in reused boxes from local businesses.