The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

As storm clouds gathered on a forgotten beach in China's Miaodao islands, artist Fu Junsheng picked his way through piles of plastic waste washed up along the shoreline, looking for inspiration.

Broken shoes? Time to take sole responsibility, urges Abha Shah

The last quarter of each year is chock-full of festivals--which, traditionally, is when Indians shop for new clothes, spurred on by myriad sales and big discounts.

Food and garden rubbish is sorted and then cooked to produce rich compost at this waste management centre

The owner of the diamond was ‘hoping for a miracle (and a way to open the Big Belly),’ officials said

Scheme has collected a fraction of the waste it set out to handle and is struggling with broken machinery and poor finances

Trillions of pieces of plastic are estimated to float in oceans around the world

New data reveals an extra 5,000 tonnes of waste is sent to landfill or incineration from November to March

As clean energy infrastructure like solar panels and electric car batteries becomes more common in India, some small businesses are working to recycle them when they reach the end of their lifespan, dismantling panels to sell individual components and using old EV batteries’ remaining power to provide electricity to remote,…

This felt like sleeping on the traditional pillows of my childhood – but the feather and down in this pillow are all recycled.

Food, fertiliser, fuel … seaweed has been a life force for centuries. On a coastal foraging trip in Pembrokeshire, we discover it’s now behind a new green initiative, too