The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is to cut £34 million spending on the UK’s low carbon technology programme and, while I see this as possibly short-sighted, I think we all realise that the deficit has to be reduced somehow...

The UK spends less on waste management than other European countries who are recycling significant amounts of municipal waste. In fact, we pay around 50 pence per person per week on this and recover just 22% of household waste...

High street giant, Marks & Spencer, has outlined plans to become the UK’s most sustainable retailer by 2015 as part of its so called Plan A programme. Among 80 commitments added to the original 100 outlined in 2007 are pledges to cease sending operational and construction waste to landfill...