The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

New recycling method offers environmentally friendly way to deal with increasing e-waste from old smartphones and electric cars

Bristol Council had launched a consultation which included the option of switching to monthly bin collections to save money and boost recycling

Our team of experts explain how to use cardboard in the garden to nurture your plants and soil

When US President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to return to plastic straws, claiming the paper version is ineffective and “disgustingly dissolves in your mouth”, he was widely criticised for setting back efforts to reduce plastic pollution. But many alternatives designed to help phase out single-use plastics don’t really solve…

Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this demand is hard to comprehend – 12.5 million Olympic sized swimming pools per year – making it the most-used solid material by humans.

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A globe-spanning study of the waste industry reveals how wealthy nations dump their garbage on the poor while the rate at which we produce near-indestructible rubbish only increases

Exclusive: They say the support for British Steel’s transition to electric replacement is needed to prevent immediate job losses

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers.