recycling

A new report by an environmental advocacy group says most plastic simply cannot be recycled.  

Recycling can be confusing and sometimes time-consuming to sort through. So a Sydney-based team has invented a prototype device that is programmed to sort your recyclables for you.  

California has passed a sweeping measure to significantly reduce single-use plastics and drastically boost plastic recycling rates, setting up the toughest plastics reduction requirements in the nation. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed the measure on Thursday afternoon. “Our kids deserve a future free of plastic waste and all its dangerous impacts, everything from clogging […]

India’s top e-recycler Attero is spending $1 billion to expand around the world as EV production grows.

A review of children’s social care calls for a “radical reset” to improve the lives of children and break the cycle of crisis intervention. Rwanda says it expects the first asylum seekers from the UK by the end of May. The Royal Mint is now in the business of recycling. It uses a new method to extract […]

Sydney, Australia has been adopting a new recycling system. This is so recyclable items such as clothes and old kitchen appliances don’t end up in a landfill. Local councils and residents say they prefer this new system.

Vermont has officially banned its residents throughout the state from throwing food scraps into the trash by mandating composting.

The Australian Council of Recycling has launched an app designed to reduce contamination in kerbside recycling by helping the community recycle correctly. A free photo recognition recycling app designed to reduce kerbside cross-contamination has been launched in NSW. Recycle Mate will allow people to take a photograph of an item and immediately discover where it […]

Have you ever wondered what happens to the soap you used and left in the hotel room after checking out?

An Australian woman said that she plans to pay for her dream wedding with the cash from recycling hundreds of thousands of plastic bottles and cans. Leonie Starr, 28, of Queensland wants to hold the wedding in Vanuatu. She and her fiance Matthew Porter, 28, plan to spend six nights on the island. The $81,000 […]

Local governments across New South Wales are looking for ways to tackle the recycling challenges following China’s import restrictions on recycled materials. However, uptake of funding offered to improve recycling across the state has been slow. In a workshop attended by local government representatives on July 20, NSW Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton called on councils to […]

Consumer products giant Unilever wants the Australian government to provide stronger coordination for companies as they work to meet new domestic recycling targets aimed at cutting down the nation’s waste production. The Minister for the Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg announced on April 27 that the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation will work with companies to […]

While the ugly fruit movement seeks to get imperfect produce sold in stores, a Swedish startup is trying to catch fruit from going to the bin that may not be worthy of getting onto the store shelves in the first place. The Helsingborg-based startup, which began in 2015, is called Rescued Fruit. It works with […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Some of the most thrifty, eco-conscious Oregon residents, each hauling hundreds of used water bottles and soda cans in trash bags and carts, flocked to bottle-recycling centers and grocery stores Saturday — the first day the per-bottle refund rate doubled to 10 cents. Oregon was the first state in the nation […]

Plastic bottles, when not properly recycled, are harmful to the environment. One rural town in Nigeria is doing their part to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in the streets. The unique way they’re going about saving the planet is using discarded plastic bottles to build houses. The bottles are collected from local […]

It actually doesn’t look too different from an elaborate printing machine – except for its size. The main difference is that this printer prints in reverse. Instead of supplying it with blank white paper and fetching the printed results, this reverse printer consumes already-printed paper and produces completely blank paper- as good as new! This is actually a mobile recycling […]

The medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be forged from recycled metal from old mobile phones and appliances donated by the general public to give them a sense of direct involvement in the Games, organisers said on Wednesday (February 1). “Through recycling, not just using and throwing away, we can limit our use of […]