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Plastics industry’s desires for Trump

Tucked into a federal recycling bill is what critics call the plastics industry’s Project 2025

Salon

This battery recycling masterplan could make EVs live forever

The automaker hopes to recycle up to 96% of the raw materials contained inside a typical EV battery pack

Households in England dumped 5.6m tonnes of packaging waste last year – councils

Councils are calling on ministers to ensure upcoming reforms focus on reducing unnecessary waste and making recycling easier.

The Independent UK

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Through the roof: how a Brisbane shed is turning old solar panels into silver and copper

Australia’s solar waste problem – identified as a priority by the federal government in 2016 – is becoming larger and more urgent

The Guardian - AU

Consumers embrace Ireland’s first bottle deposit return scheme

Since February, 630m empty cans and plastic bottles have been deposited at reverse vending machines

The Guardian - UK

Mercedes-Benz Is Getting Into EV Battery Recycling

The automaker opened a battery recycling facility that it says will process enough materials for 50,000 battery modules each year.

InsideEVs

Food waste and the horror of discarded pumpkins

Letters: Patrick Cosgrove says much can be composted at household level, Joy Webb fears for hedgehogs, while Bill Linton says climate news should make the front page

The Guardian - UK

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Car battery 'passports' could help manage growing waste

Australia should adopt a tracking scheme and battery passports like Europe to deal with the growing pile of electric car waste, an inquiry has heard.

AAP

Scam warning over little-known phone number rule

There are reports of people being bombarded with calls from debt collectors or people contacting them to buy drugs

The Independent UK

Where and how to recycle your old electrical items as Brits are urged to raid 'drawers of doom'

‘Drawers of doom’ in homes up and down the UK contain millions of items made with recyclable copper, a study has found

Evening Standard

700 million plastic bottles: we worked out how much microplastic is in Queensland’s Moreton Bay

When it rains heavily, plastic waste is washed off our streets into rivers, flowing out to the ocean. Most plastic is trapped in estuaries and coastal ecosystems, with a small fraction ending up offshore in the high seas.

The Conversation

Britons urged to dig out unwanted electricals to tackle copper shortage

Items such as cables and old tech could contain £266m worth of metal vital for decarbonisation drive, study finds

The Guardian - UK

British food firms lobbied to defer £1.7bn plastic packaging tax, documents reveal

New scheme to improve recycling rates and tackle pollution was pushed back by Tories after industry complaints

The Guardian - UK

Climate protest heroes are prisoners of conscience

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The Guardian - AU

One in three Australians throwing unwanted clothes in rubbish, survey finds

RMIT-led study recommends a national recycling scheme to reduce the 200,000 tonnes of textiles sent to landfill each year

The Guardian - UK

Most soft plastic collected for recycling is burned, campaigners say

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

The Independent UK

Harvesting hops for beer produces a lot of waste. These German groups are seeking to fix that

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

The Guardian - UK

BT pockets £105m in first ever recycling deal for surplus copper cables

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

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The Guardian - AU

Burning rubbish to create energy could end landfills. But some worry where Australia’s new path is leading

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

Evening Standard

Warning issued after refuse worker rushed to hospital following latest bin lorry explosion

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

The Guardian - UK

Recycling rate falls in UK as just 44% of household waste is recycled

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

The Independent UK

A father-of-one was found dead on a conveyor belt at a New Jersey recycling plant. The company said he never worked there

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

The Conversation

Where do we stash the equivalent of 110 Sydney harbour bridges? That’s the conundrum Australia faces as oil and gas rigs close

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.

The Guardian - US

Clothes piling up in your closet? A landmark California bill would mandate brands recycle them

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

The Conversation

Can you trust companies that say their plastic products are recyclable? US regulators may crack down on deceptive claims

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…

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