The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

The new initiative comes after the high-street opticians teamed up with recycling experts MYgroup to install recycling collection boxes at Specsavers stores.

Plastic recycling rates continue to decline, at the same time as production is increasing, according to a Greenpeace USA report released this week. The environmental watchdog blasts as "fiction" industry claims that we have created an efficient, circular economy.

"Where are we supposed to put all these bins?"

It was the green dream that turned plastic trash into treasure, popular among politicians keen to champion sustainability without sidelining industry — then the company went bust, leaving many without a means to get rid of waste.

The plastics industry says there is way to help solve the crisis of plastic waste plaguing the planet’s oceans, beaches and lands— recycle it, chemically

The plastics industry says there is a way to help solve solution to the crisis of plastic waste plaguing the ocean, beaches and lands across the globe

A new source of drinking water is coming to thirsty, fast-growing Colorado — recycled wastewater

Environment ministers are under pressure to expand container deposit schemes and eliminate baffling rules about what's in and what's out.

Multiple recycling containers could be introduced