London's slums—known amongst dustmen as “dead pieces”—could be neglected by dustmen for months at a time since residents couldn't afford tips. When trash lost its value, trash pickup itself became the ...

The London Underground is an iconic piece of Victorian era engineering. What started in 1863 quickly became a core piece of ...

In Victorian London, among the factories and warehouses ... mushrooms or agricultural waste—as alternatives to plastic. Traceless, a German startup, recently set up a factory to produce cutlery ...

The solid mass of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms formed in the Victorian-era tunnel ... this is a major issue across London. "We have set up a waste oil collection point ...

A "concreteberg", weighing as much as 20 elephants, is blocking three central London sewers ... months and cost £150,000 to remove from the Victorian-era sewer under Hall Street, Islington.