Author: Kirsi Seppänen

AkzoNobel has been working with Alucha, a company that develops innovative recycling solutions to transform paper sludge into the paint. In 2019, Alucha became one…

Researchers at US-based Carnegie Mellon University and Canada-based University of Toronto are using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate progress in transforming waste carbon into a…

The installation of a ”hyperscale” district heating system at Facebook’s data centre in Odense, Denmark, has been completed, setting the firm up to donate 100,000MWh…

Evian created a new water bottle made from 100% recycled plastic that is completely label-free. The 400-milliliter mineral water bottle took two years to develop…

American children whose homes rely on private wells for drinking water are 25% more likely to have high lead levels in their blood than those…

Protecting 30% of oceans and land globally would reap economic benefits five times greater than the initial costs of conservation and restoration, a major new…

Today (7 July) the Brussels-based Bureau of International Recycling commented that via its contacts in China, the country’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment has confirmed…

Between 1970 and 2016, Singapore’s growing population and booming economy caused a seven-fold increase in waste generation. But the city nation, renowned for its cleanliness,…

The new report, titled ‘Examining material evidence – the carbon fingerprint’, commissioned by Veolia and published today (6 June) by Imperial College, set out to…

European Union (EU) data has shown temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared to a record average for June amid a heat wave that is stoking some…

San Francisco-based Brightmark, a waste solutions provider, has announced that it completed a pilot collection program for boat wraps with a local marine services dealer…

US and European scientists are about to get a unique view of polar ice as their respective space agencies line up two satellites in the…

A plan to create the first universally recognised list of species on Earth has prompted hopes of an end to centuries of disagreement and confusion…

The Australian government is investing around $132 million in a new fund to modernize the country’s waste and recycling capacity. An export ban on sending…

Renault Trucks is stepping up its transition to a circular economy and is developing a network with Indra for recycling and reusing truck parts. The…

A Norwegian tyre waste recycling company has announced its first plant will be located in the UK and is currently assessing sites, with a view…

Recycling firm APK AG and printing inks producer Siegwerk successfully completed de-inking trials of twofold printed low density polyethylene (LDPE) films. The strategic collaboration between…

The Red Sea was cleaned from 19 June 2020 to 29 June 2020 as part of a 10-day initiative called “Ethadar lel-Akhdar” (be civic-minded towards…

A research team at Swansea University in Wales have developed a new method for fast removal and detection of wastewater pollutants that come from everyday…

The world is treating the health and economic symptoms of the coronavirus pandemic but not the environmental cause, according to the authors of a UN…