The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

Campaigners call supermarket takeback schemes a diversion and say there is too much plastic packaging

A startup called HopfON — a play on Hopfen, the German word for hops — and a research society in Bavaria are seeking to solve the problem of waste created during the hops harvest in Germany

Telecoms firm has so far extracted 3,300 tonnes of potential 200,000 tonnes of cables amid £15bn rollout of full-fibre broadband

Some conservationists believe ‘incineration industry’ is trying to gain a foothold in Australia and say the trend will end up damaging the environment

A refuse worker was rushed to hospital after the explosion in east London

England’s recycling rate decreased in 2022 as rest of UK improved but country still lags behind Europe

Nicholas Holsten found dead by workers sorting metal at Republic Services facility

Oil and gas wells are dotted off Australia’s shores. They involve huge steel structures fixed firmly to the sea floor, and thousands of kilometres of pipelines.

California could become the first state to tackle the fast fashion waste overwhelming consumers and landfills

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most recent year for which national data is available. The rest was burned in waste-to-energy plants…

The majority Britons want the government to press ahead with a scheme that would see a deposit added to the price of drinks containers to boost recycling rates, a new poll has revealed.