The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

Altilium Metals' plans could create hundreds of jobs, as well as a key component of new batteries

It's National Recycling Week AKA the perfect time to instil some fun new habits that will not only help save the planet, but you’ll get to impress that hunk Captain Planet too.

A NEW recycling initiative has been launched on Orkney in a “key milestone” ahead of Scotland's upcoming national deposit scheme.

Not even water bottles and milk jugs meet standards for recyclability, a new report finds

The new initiative comes after the high-street opticians teamed up with recycling experts MYgroup to install recycling collection boxes at Specsavers stores.

Plastic recycling rates continue to decline, at the same time as production is increasing, according to a Greenpeace USA report released this week. The environmental watchdog blasts as "fiction" industry claims that we have created an efficient, circular economy.

WASHINGTON: Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report that blasts industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction."

A 26-year-old Kiwi engineer and his former professor are trying to clean up one of the dirtiest metal recycling industries in the world. 

Washington (AFP) - Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction."

Americans discarded 51m tons of plastic in 2021 – of which almost 95% ended up in landfills, oceans or scattered in the atmosphere

For national Recycle Week, we went on the hunt to find out what happens to your rubbish