It's an amazing journey. The cans in your bin can end up in the blades of a windmill in the North Sea or be shipped to China and recycled into a DVD player. Newsmonster follows one British family's recycling to find out what really happens to your waste.

First appeared in the Daily Mail. 

Supermarkets are helping to destroy one of the world’s most important wildlife habitats by forcing wine producers to switch to plastic corks. Traditional corks, harvested for centuries from the bark of oaks, help sustain one of Europe's most important habitats. If we stop drinking wine from bottles stoppered with corks then the oak forests of Spain and Portugal will be cut down and ploughed up. 

A slug eating robot that will quite happily munch the little blighters 24 hours a day. Sounds like a dream come true – and it is. Newsmonster takes a look at the future of pest control.

Built in just eight hours flat, a modern windmill can power thousands of homes. Newsmonster watched as one of the world's largest wind farms was built in Liverpool Bay.