Waste
Design news: meet the ‘shellmet’ plus Ikea’s new range and women in design
Waste shells turned into helmets, vintage giant Beyond Retro’s new range and Taschen swaps art books for artworks
Alice Fisher
24, Jan, 2023 @4:00 PM
‘You should gaze at your bins in horror’: the massive crime scandal behind the UK’s rubbish
The mafia is infiltrating our waste, and millions of tonnes of it is being illegally dumped. A shocking podcast uncovers the horrific environmental scandal – and its links to gun and drug trafficking
Daniel Dylan Wray
23, Jan, 2023 @6:00 AM
Plastic bottle deposit return scheme finally looks set to start in England
Campaigners say long delay is adding to pollution and not including glass will break manifesto pledge
Sandra Laville Environment correspondent
19, Jan, 2023 @3:25 PM
Cabbage-growing experiment shows human waste can be good to use as fertiliser
Scientists say yields from crops fertilised with recycled human waste rival those produced by organic methods
Phoebe Weston
18, Jan, 2023 @9:33 AM
‘Ticking timebomb’ as ageing landfill dumps threaten English beaches
Local government survey shows 26 councils have sites already spilling waste on to cliffs and into sea
Sandra Laville
12, Jan, 2023 @7:00 AM
Thames Water criticised over lack of investment in sewage treatment works
Campaigners say most sites cannot cope with amount of wastewater, raising risk of raw discharges into rivers
Sandra Laville
11, Jan, 2023 @11:22 AM
‘Vin in a tin’: Waitrose cans mini wine bottles in carbon-cutting measure
Supermarket’s switch from glass to aluminium cans expected to halve carbon footprint per drink
Sarah Butler
10, Jan, 2023 @5:29 PM
A six-pack of sauvignon: could canned wine help save the planet?
Wine poured – or sipped – from cans is gaining in popularity, and drastically reducing emissions from the industry
Francesca Carington
09, Jan, 2023 @12:00 PM
Single-use plastic cutlery and plates to be banned in England
‘A plastic fork can take 200 years to decompose’, said environment secretary Thérèse Coffey
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
08, Jan, 2023 @4:12 PM
Running in circles: the race to create a recyclable sneaker
From trainers available only via subscription to kicks made out of coconut husk, designing a shoe that won’t end up in landfill is proving to be a marathon
Lucianne Tonti
04, Jan, 2023 @2:00 PM
Nuclear is not the answer to the UK’s energy requirements | Letter
Letter: We need more honesty about the problems of the proposed Sizewell C plant, writes Rae Street
02, Jan, 2023 @2:21 PM
‘There’s been a fundamental change in our planet’: hunt on for spot to mark the start of the Anthropocene epoch
Scientists are to pick a location that sums up the current Anthropocene epoch when Homo sapiens made its mark
Robin McKie Science editor
01, Jan, 2023 @8:30 AM
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