Fly-tipping – the illegal disposal of waste by just dumping it anywhere – is on the increase. Government data released at the beginning of this month shows...

Waste management isn’t new. Many of the principles of modern waste management have a precedent in earlier societies that had similar waste management needs t...

For the millennia since we left the Savannah, humans have had three approaches to waste disposal: burn it, bury it or leave it where it is and move the tribe s...

The metric system hasn’t fully infiltrated the waste disposal industry. Our skips are all still advertised by their capacity in cubic yards. We thought it wo...