Pledging to take shorter showers, using a smaller amount of water for baths, and doing the washing up in a bowl in the sink are all easy ways to reduce your personal water usage. Families have been taking pledges together.

In the UK, 15 million plastic bottles are used every day, and, despite increasingly improving waste disposal services, 80% of these are not recycled. Everyday approximately one billion bottles and cans are dumped in parks, rivers oceans and landfill sites - almost 400 million of those in America alone.

Sportswear brand Puma has launched a new biodegradable and recyclable range alongside a campaign to get customers to return old clothing. The 22 it...

An unwanted three-week-old kitten has been saved from death by recycling truck after it was dumped in a bin. The female tortoiseshell kitten was th...

Ultimately, the transition towards sustainable business is inevitable, given the combined impact of the challenges we face. For those businesses looking to fully embed sustainability principles, there is also a big prize waiting. And who wouldn't want some of that?

Householders will no longer face fines for making "innocent mistakes" when putting out their bins under plans being announced by the Government this w...

Perhaps we could start a recycling project to encourage parents to put school uniform in charity clothing banks specifically for uniform and schools could nominate children for it to be distributed to.