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Despite government delays, food waste recycling bins are coming to your kitchen sooner than you think

Only 24% of local councils in Australia separately collect household food organics and garden organics (FOGO) waste. Another 16% provide garden waste collection only. This limited progress has prompted the federal government to push back the target date, from 2023 to 2030, for all councils to collect food and garden…

The Conversation

'Plastic roads' are paved with good intention

Transportation officials in multiple states are testing whether roads made from grocery bags, juice cartons, printer ink cartridges or other discarded plastic can make pavement last longer, save money and reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills.

Tribune News Service

Sansiri to host sustainability fest at T77

Sansiri is holding the biggest lifestyle festival for sustainability to offer inspiration to anyone interested in changing and making the world better, at Sansiri Backyard, a 15 rai green area at T77 Community, On Nut Road, from tomorrow to Sunday, daily from 4-7pm.

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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

Scottish tyre recycling business secures £370,000 funding deal

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

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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

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

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Belfast Live

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

"People have had their concerns raised needlessly."

Bristol Post

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

Liverpool Echo

Bin collection changes in Knowsley confirmed for Christmas

There will be two changes to collections in the borough

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

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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

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.

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