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The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

Recycling sewage is a sensible way to improve water security – but would you swallow it?

Our water supply is far from infinite.

The Conversation

I just tried aluminum K-Cups — here's my pros and cons

More sustainable, but how's the coffee?

Tom’s Guide

Hurricane Helene has produced enough debris to fill 11,600 Olympic-sized swimming pools

Officials say that the amount of debris crews in North Carolina collected in the wake of the deadly storm could pave 62 miles of road

The Independent UK

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Coca-Cola accused of quietly dropping its 25% reusable packaging target

Exclusive: Campaigners say company’s apparent abandoning of 2030 pledge is a ‘masterclass in greenwashing’

The Guardian - UK

Waste pickers battle for recognition at plastic treaty talks

As diplomats negotiate behind closed doors in the South Korean city of Busan on a treaty to curb plastic pollution, the waste pickers who are on the front lines of the problem are fighting for recognition.

Radio France Internationale

My solar panels are faulty. Can I repair them or is it time for new ones?

Waste generated by discarded systems is enormous. Here’s how to decide if it’s really time to replace your current array

The Guardian - AU

Neil Goldman obituary

Other lives: Head of a food packaging business that set trends in using environmentally friendlier materials

The Guardian - UK

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Is Emeco's 'No Foam KNIT' a sustainable answer to synthetic upholstery textiles?

'Make more with less' is Emeco's guiding light. Now, the US furniture maker's new mono-material textile, the 'No Foam KNIT', may offer a sustainable solution to upholstery materials

Wallpaper

Waste Pickers Battle For Recognition At Plastic Treaty Talks

As diplomats negotiate behind closed doors in Busan on a treaty to curb plastic pollution, the waste pickers who are on the front lines of the problem are fighting for recognition.

International Business Times

Councils given four bin guidelines to end ‘wild west’ recycling policies

Under current legislation, some households are required to separate waste into seven bins.

Evening Standard

Chinese Island Plastic Pollution Turned Into Artistic Omens

As storm clouds gathered on a forgotten beach in China's Miaodao islands, artist Fu Junsheng picked his way through piles of plastic waste washed up along the shoreline, looking for inspiration.

International Business Times

Best products to mend shoes: Tools, glue and more

Broken shoes? Time to take sole responsibility, urges Abha Shah

Evening Standard

Textile waste a growing environmental concern

The last quarter of each year is chock-full of festivals--which, traditionally, is when Indians shop for new clothes, spurred on by myriad sales and big discounts.

Newslaundry

Where does the Fogo go? The challenge of recovering Sydney’s green waste – and how you can help

Food and garden rubbish is sorted and then cooked to produce rich compost at this waste management centre

The Guardian - AU

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The Independent UK

Rescuing the treasure from the trash: Sanitation workers help save diamond that mistakenly landed in garbage

The owner of the diamond was ‘hoping for a miracle (and a way to open the Big Belly),’ officials said

The Guardian - UK

Bali plastic recycling scheme swamped with garbage

Scheme has collected a fraction of the waste it set out to handle and is struggling with broken machinery and poor finances

The Independent UK

These countries produce the most plastic pollution in our oceans – and they’re not the ones you might have guessed

Trillions of pieces of plastic are estimated to float in oceans around the world

The Guardian - UK

How winter makes recycling harder with 40% jump in contamination

New data reveals an extra 5,000 tonnes of waste is sent to landfill or incineration from November to March

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The Independent UK

Clean energy could create millions of tons of waste in India. Some are working to avoid that

As clean energy infrastructure like solar panels and electric car batteries becomes more common in India, some small businesses are working to recycle them when they reach the end of their lifespan, dismantling panels to sell individual components and using old EV batteries’ remaining power to provide electricity to remote,…

Woman & Home

EarthKind Feather & Down Support Pillow review: an ethical spin on a traditional pillow type

This felt like sleeping on the traditional pillows of my childhood – but the feather and down in this pillow are all recycled.

The Guardian - UK

Tide’s out, dinner’s up: why Wales is at the forefront of a seaweed revolution

Food, fertiliser, fuel … seaweed has been a life force for centuries. On a coastal foraging trip in Pembrokeshire, we discover it’s now behind a new green initiative, too

The Guardian - AU

Beautiful, eco-friendly and fire resistant: why architects are choosing walls made of hemp

Sumptuously textured, carbon negative and just a bit more expensive, hempcrete is being increasingly used in eco-friendly building

The National (Scotland)

Deposit return scheme ‘misrepresented’ by ministers, Biffa claims

MINISTERS “negligently misrepresented” a now collapsed drinks container return scheme to a waste management company to persuade it to sign up, a…

Evening Standard

Deposit return scheme ‘misrepresented’ to waste firm by ministers, court told

Biffa is suing the Scottish Government for a sum in the region of £160 million after the scheme collapsed.

Newcastle Herald

How Newcastle stacks up: benchmark report to compare councils

'It is very much a feather in our cap to be asked.'

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