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The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

While Australians are keen to recycle their plastic, figures show the current system is not working

Australians overwhelmingly want to recycle their waste, but a fragile recycling system means it's almost impossible to process the vast amounts of rubbish we generate.

ABC News

Supermarkets are pausing soft plastic recycling. What should I do with my plastic bags now?

Peak industry bodies say the halt has exposed deeper problems within the packaging industry

The Guardian - AU

Tanya Plibersek says Coles and Woolworths must ‘step up’ to fix plastic recycling crisis

REDcycle collections stopping from Wednesday with factory fire and ‘downturns in market demand’ blamed

The Guardian - AU

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Plastic bag recycling program collapses

Hundreds of millions of plastic bags dropped off by customers at major supermarkets are being stockpiled in warehouses instead of being recycled.

AAP

Shoppers told to put plastic bags in the bin after suspension of REDcycle's soft plastics recycling scheme

The company collecting used soft plastics at Coles and Woolworths says its recycling partners can no longer take the material and it has been forced to put it into storage.

ABC News

Um, All The Soft Plastics You Hoard Lug To The Supermarket Aren’t Actually Getting Recycled

Sorry everyone, they're actually getting chucked in a warehouse!

Pedestrian.tv

Calif. wants proof plastic is recyclable

“Let’s see the evidence.”

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Battery recycling firm Altilium Metals charges ahead with plans for North East plant

Altilium Metals' plans could create hundreds of jobs, as well as a key component of new batteries

Birmingham Post

This Company Wants To Give You $$ For Recycling Old Containers, So Go Make Captain Planet Proud

It's National Recycling Week AKA the perfect time to instil some fun new habits that will not only help save the planet, but you’ll get to impress that hunk Captain Planet too.

Pedestrian.tv

New island recycling scheme is 'key milestone' for Scotland

A NEW recycling initiative has been launched on Orkney in a “key milestone” ahead of Scotland's upcoming national deposit scheme.

The National (Scotland)

Most of your plastics aren't recyclable

Not even water bottles and milk jugs meet standards for recyclability, a new report finds

Salon

Specsavers in Lanarkshire giving customers the chance to recycle glasses for free

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

Daily Record

Greenpeace study shows plastic recycling is a 'failed concept'

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.

Radio France Internationale

Plastic recycling remains a myth, study finds

WASHINGTON: Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report that blasts industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction."

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NZ deep-tech startup raises $3m for zinc recycling

A 26-year-old Kiwi engineer and his former professor are trying to clean up one of the dirtiest metal recycling industries in the world.

The Guardian - US

Only 5% of plastic waste generated by US last year was recycled, report says

Americans discarded 51m tons of plastic in 2021 – of which almost 95% ended up in landfills, oceans or scattered in the atmosphere

Manchester Evening News

This is why you've been recycling wrong all along – and how to get it right

For national Recycle Week, we went on the hunt to find out what happens to your rubbish

Nottingham Post

Nottingham hits back at proposals to introduce new recycling and food waste bins

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

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Plastic dilemma after Envorinex goes bust leaving Tasmanians with waste problem

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 Independent UK

Industry: Advanced recycling is a solution to plastic crisis

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 Independent UK

Industry: Advanced recycling is a solution to plastic crisis

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

The Independent UK

Colorado to reuse water for drinking, creating new supply

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

AAP

Drink deposit schemes need overhaul

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

Nottingham Post

Major changes to Nottingham bins could see new recycling and food waste collections

Multiple recycling containers could be introduced

Belfast Live

NI councils export 90,000 tonnes of recyclables that could be used by firms here

Encirc, Enva, Bryson Recycling and Friends of the Earth have launched a Keep Recycling Local campaign

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