A team at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a process that enables recycled paper and cardboard to be used as a raw material for non-wovens. Hygiene and home care products are among the items that can be manufactured from the biodegradable non-wovens. The manu

A project at Greenwich University, London aims to use nanoparticle technology to build new, lightweight types of transport, including space vehicles, planes and cars, with components that are also recyclable. Researchers will investigate the potential for replacing heavy steel in comp

Last Thursday, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Flight 642 completed the seven hour and 17 minute flight from New York’s JFK Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol using sustainable biofuels. Flight KL642, operated by a Boeing 777-200, will fly every Thursday fueled by recycled cooking oil as

A UK university-led team of scientists is to develop a reactor that converts CO2 into fuel so efficiently it could offset every year more than three times the amount of carbon produced by Britain. It will look to make ‘photo-catalytic reductions,’ which use solar energy to creat

The world’s first online search engine for sustainability resources in the built environment has launched today to support the delivery of greener buildings. The free-to-use online platform, called Pinpoint, contains over 200 resources, including reports, case studies, measurement and

Are you terrified by the melting polar ice cap, rising sea levels, extreme weather, and other growing threats from global warming? There’s something you can do about it, new research shows. Just don’t work so hard. David Rosnick, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Rese

In early 2012 O2 put their business to the test and asked 2,500 employees to work away from the Slough Head Office for one day. The lessons they learnt changed the Company. People work more productively and get more out of their day. 96% say they’re as effective as normal. Saving of £

A project which could lead to the water held in the network of abandoned mine workings underneath Glasgow being used to generate up to 40 per cent of the city’s heat will begin this month. Scientists at Glasgow Caledonian University have recently received funding from ScottishPower to

Iceland is considering building the world’s longest subsea power cable by around 2020 to take advantage of its abundant geothermal energy to supply the UK with green power, the head of the state-run electricity producer said. “We can serve as a green battery for the UK,

IT hardware firm Logitech has an iPad keyboard that is powered solely using solar cells and the day when other gadgets such as mobile phones and iPods can be powered using solar energy moves closer every day. The photoelectric cells integrated onto the portable keyboard generate energ