The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

Make-up brands and retailers are now introducing recycling programs so old cosmetics waste can be turned into new products, but how effective are they and what makes the packaging so hard to recycle in the first place?

Ten gas cylinders were removed as a precaution

The exporting of discarded plastic betrays the millions of people who diligently sort waste for recycling, expecting it to be reused to ease the burden on the planet

Daily Mirror Environment Editor Nada Farhoud discovered the scale of our environmental shame in Adana, Turkey, where dozens of items of British ­packaging were found among the debris of a rubbish tip

Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than human need. Over the past decade, the term “circular economy” has entered the fashion industry lexicon, wherein materials are made to be reused and recycled by design.

These are the best brands championing sustainability with resale and buyback programs.

Scientific research doesn’t usually mean being strapped in a harness by the open paratroop doors of a Vietnam-war-era Hercules plane. But that’s the situation I found myself in several years ago, the result of which has just been published in the journal Marine Biodiversity.

Preventing plastic from entering the ocean is most important, academic says.

All 13 rivers tested found to have waste microplastics floating through them