Hilton Worldwide has found another way to give its surplus and gently used items a second life.

A recycling plant in Co Down which manufactures tyre-derived fuel (TDF) for export to East Asia has resumed supplying the fuel to a chemical company in Japan.

A new set of ‘reuse’ protocols launched by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) will underpin efforts to cut the half a million tonnes of WEEE thrown away each year.

Buying re-used items like sofas and TVs rather than buying new items is saving UK households around £1 billion a year and helping to create jobs - but this is just a fraction of the potential shown by ground breaking new research from WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme).

TRACS, Ireland’s leading tyre monitoring and compliance scheme has published its Annual Report 2011.

UK startup WEEE Systems has revealed ambitious plans to revolutionise the UK's e-waste management industry, revealing it is in early-stage talks to develop a prototype plant capable of providing reuse and closed-loop recycling services to leading electronics manufacturers.

Your flowers love it, it's environmentally friendly and saves on rubbish collection. - and soon, you will be able to add your worn-out trainers and T-shirts to the carrot peels, potato skins and eggshells on the compost heap at the end of your garden, if German sportswear manufacturer Puma gets its way.

Coke Zero could take on a whole new meaning next year, after Coca-Cola revealed plans to turn plastic discarded at the London 2012 Olympic Games into 80 million new drinks bottles.

Roughly 2.6 million partially used bars of soap are thrown out at North American hotels each day and often end up in landfills.

Shane McEntee TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, congratulated Cré on the establishment of the Compost Skillnet, which will provide an extensive range of training courses for those involved in developing the composting industry in Ireland.