Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

Jingle bins: Greater Manchester bin collection changes this Christmas and New Year

The festive period is affecting bin collections in a number of boroughs this year

Manchester Evening News

Reduced bin collections plan fury amid £30m East Renfrewshire Council cuts bid

Barrhead's community council will object to proposals they describe as a "total nightmare".

Daily Record

Europe could ban miniature hotel toiletries as part of new plastic waste rules

Measures focus on unnecessary packaging, with carbon neutrality by 2050 the primary aim

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Scottish tyre recycling business secures £370,000 funding deal

Motherwell-based business plans to invest in new machinery and increase its workforce by 30%

Insider UK

Wine industry sour on return and earn

Almost all Australians are in favour of container recycling programs being expanded to include wine and spirit bottles, according to a new poll.

AAP

Recycled roads re-route old supply chains

Reclaimed and crushed asphalt, glass, concrete and tyres could replace conventional raw materials in road construction and drive Australia's circular economy.

AAP

Kerbside soft plastics collection trial could help fill REDcycle void

Following the collapse of REDcycle, a small Victorian town is forging ahead with a trial program that removes the need to go in-store to recycle old plastic bags.

ABC News

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Recycling a risk in itself

Rayong provincial court yesterday ordered Win Process Co -- a hazardous waste recycling company -- to clean up toxic waste contamination and pay 20.82-million-baht compensation to villagers who had been forced to suffer the effects of the contamination for a decade.

Bangkok Post

More Australians are paying to recycle items that can't go in yellow kerbside bins rather than throw them away

While the collapse of soft plastic recycling company REDcycle is a blow to the industry, demand grows for commercial services that charge to collect and recycle unwanted goods not allowed in yellow kerbside bins.

ABC News

EU hotels to be banned from offering guests miniature shampoos and shower gels

Miniature bottles of shampoo, body lotions and shower gels are being banned as part of the European Green Deal's Circular Economy Action Plan, which is designed to make sustainable products the norm

Daily Mirror

Hanson UK acquires £220m-turnover Central England recycling company Mick George Group

Mick George has four recycling facilities, eight waste transfer stations, 11 quarries and 10 ready-mixed concrete plants

Birmingham Post

Derry City and Strabane Council deny popular football pitches will be turned into dump

"People have had their concerns raised needlessly."

Belfast Live

Fresh calls for bin collections every three weeks in North Somerset

Plans to trial the idea in North Somerset were originally put on hold in February

Bristol Post

Bin collection changes in Knowsley confirmed for Christmas

There will be two changes to collections in the borough

Liverpool Echo

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror

Sainsbury's announces new plastic packaging ban across every UK store

The supermarket is aiming to save 71 million pieces of plastic every year, which equates to 220 tonnes worth, in yet another move to become more environmentally friendly

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Lawson to start collecting secondhand clothing

Lawson Inc. will begin an initiative to collect clothes people no longer need at convenience stores and reuse them via recycling or as secondhand clothing.

The Guardian - UK

High-street fashion needn’t be landfill fodder – if you choose your clothes well

Some of my most treasured pieces are inexpensive, and bought years ago from the likes of Topshop, says Jess Cartner-Morley

The Independent UK

Fire out at Iowa plant where explosion injured several

Firefighters have extinguished a fire that tore through an asphalt shingle recycling plant at Marengo in east-central Iowa

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Liverpool Echo

When to put your bins out as Wirral collections resume after strikes

Biffa waste workers have carried out a week of industrial action

Wales Online

Christmas 2022 bin collection dates: When rubbish and recycling will be collected in Newport

There will be some changes to collections and opening times over the festive period

Wales Online

Christmas bin collections in Wales: Refuse collection arrangements for your area over the festive period

Check what dates your bins are due to be collected over Christmas and the New Year

The Independent UK

How to be more sustainable – and save money – with your Christmas wrapping

Looking for a greener alternative to unrecyclable wrapping paper? By Imy Brighty-Potts.

Manchester Evening News

Woman who dumped a SOFA directly outside a recycling centre given hefty fine

Four people have collectively been fined more than £5,000 for dumping waste in Bolton

AAP

Warehouses found chock-full of plastics

About 3000 tonnes of soft plastics have been discovered in six Melbourne warehouses after the REDcycle recycling program was halted a month ago.

ABC News

EPA finds 3,000 tonnes of soft plastics in Melbourne warehouses amid REDcycle investigation

Victoria's environmental watchdog says it's working to mitigate fire risks after discovering 3,000 tonnes of soft plastics in half a dozen warehouses, weeks after the national REDcycle recycling program was halted.

1 … 56 57 58 59

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

East Renfrewshire Council

Infrastructure Australia

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.