The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

Filling your recycling bin feels great, but did you know there are ways you can use your waste to benefit your garden and plants instead?

New recycling method offers environmentally friendly way to deal with increasing e-waste from old smartphones and electric cars

Bristol Council had launched a consultation which included the option of switching to monthly bin collections to save money and boost recycling

A former company director once responsible for processing 60 per cent of Victoria's recyclable waste has partly blamed firefighters for a major toxic blaze.

Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras, leaving the city covered in detritus

How designers are radically reshaping sustainability

Early mornings, razor-like broken window panes, private property restrictions and territorial fellow recycling collectors – it’s all in a day’s work for a growing cohort of elderly Australians

Our team of experts explain how to use cardboard in the garden to nurture your plants and soil

When US President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to return to plastic straws, claiming the paper version is ineffective and “disgustingly dissolves in your mouth”, he was widely criticised for setting back efforts to reduce plastic pollution. But many alternatives designed to help phase out single-use plastics don’t really solve…

Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this demand is hard to comprehend – 12.5 million Olympic sized swimming pools per year – making it the most-used solid material by humans.

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