Sustainability Stories: New sustainable initiatives from four luxury brands

Return Recycle Reward with Molton Brown Molton Brown‘s ‘Return. Recycle. Reward.’ scheme was launched nationwide after successfully piloting at select stores in the UK. As Molton Brown bottle caps, pumps and Hair Care collection bottles are not widely recycled in the UK, this scheme ensures that each and every component of your used product is … Read more

‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish?

You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis

Real books should be preserved like papyrus scrolls

In a future electronic world, there will be a ghastly contingency about the written word. Books have a new place as sacred objects, and libraries as museums

Beyond plastic: creating sustainable materials from recycled waste

New, innovative materials can be produced from everyday waste – could they offer a sustainable alternative to plastic or wood?

Accordeon-like paper sculptures. Li Hongbo’s Tools of Study

Chinese artist Li Hongbo‘s paper sculptures are stretching the imagination. Li Hongbo said he had always loved paper and was guided by an old Chinese saying, “life is as fragile as paper.” “Tools of Study“, Li’s exhibition hosted by the Klein Sun Gallery in New York, has won him plenty of attention since it opened. … Read more