The Veolia ES UK Ltd. subsidiary of France-based Veolia says it is growing thanks to what it calls “a major new recycling and waste services contract” covering four south London boroughs. The new ...

It is noisy, dusty and smells, unsurprisingly, like your bins. Conveyor belts carry cans, bags and cardboard all around us. Machines scrape and shake thousands and thousands of bits of rubbish. We are ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Recycling rates in London have dropped to their lowest level since 2010 but innovative new ways to cut waste could rescue the British capital from the trash heap, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 29—NEW LONDON — The City Council on Tuesday will discuss raising for the first time in nearly a decade the cost for residents ...

The mayor of London has proposed building more than 200 recycling facilities in the United Kingdom’s largest city with a goal of recycling 45 percent of the city’s municipal solid waste stream and 70 ...

Construction projects never truly stop across the capital. From home extensions and loft conversions to full property refurbishments and commercial fit-outs, development is constant. But behind every ...

Households in London toss an estimated 900,000 tonnes of food each year, of which 540,000 tonnes could have been eaten. Starting this month and set to run for three years, the latest initiative led by ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Every week barges loaded with yellow containers collect black-bag rubbish from sites along the river Thames and ...

Early on a sunlit mid-September morning, on the banks of The Grand Union Canal in London, 25 designers, writers and academics from London Design Festival’s Greengaged hub, took residence on the ...