The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

We found 3 types of food wasters, which one are you?

Each year, Australian households discard about 2.5 million tonnes of food. Most (73%) of this food waste ends up in landfill.

The Conversation · Oct 12, 2023

3 Waste Stocks on the Rise in October

The global waste management industry is evolving with rising awareness, technological advancements and government initiatives. So, it is wise to invest in quality waste disposal stocks Republic Services (RSG), Clean Harbors (CLH), and Concrete Pumping Holdings (BBCP), which have been gaining in price. Read on.

StockNews.com · Oct 12, 2023

McLaren to trial recycle carbon fibre at F1's US GP

McLaren has teamed up with the specialised company V Carbon to pioneer the use of recycled carbon on its MCL60.

Autosport · Oct 12, 2023

Lightning strike causes huge explosion at recycling plant in Oxfordshire

The fire occurred at Severn Trent’s Cassington AD facility near Yarnton on Monday

Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023

Lightning strike causes huge explosion at Oxford recycling plant

Witnesses report large ‘fireball’ in sky at Severn Trent Green Power facility but no one is thought to have been injured in the blast

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2023

What can old clothes be made into right now? Puzzles, pillows and plastic pellets

Commercial clothing recycling is still in its infancy in Australia. Here the two major players explain what unwanted clothing can and cannot become

The Guardian - AU · Oct 2, 2023

West Chicago in a ‘culture war’ over trash site, garbage-hauler’s lawyer says

“They want to throw us into the culture war. Lakeshore is somehow responsible for oppression of the population.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 1, 2023

Call for national strategy to force Australian vaping industry to clean up waste

Lithium-ion batteries embedded in the products have been blamed for an increasing number of hazardous fires at landfill sites

The Guardian - AU · Sep 30, 2023

Calls mount for national solution to toxic vape waste

Australia urgently needs a national strategy to deal with hazardous and toxic waste from vaping products, environmental campaigners say.

AAP · Sep 29, 2023

How British refuse collectors won their strikes and became a model for successful trade unionism

As mountains of rubbish built up in Tower Hamlets and elsewhere, authorities were forced to listen, says Polly Smythe, labour movement correspondent at Novara Media

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2023