Avainsana: waste
Japan to collect all types of plastic waste for recycling
The government on Tuesday unveiled a plan for municipalities to collect all types of plastic waste from households for recycling. The plan, designed to make…
Adidas to End Plastic Waste and Support a Circular Future
Sports company Adidas is taking real action to reduce plastic waste. The company is working on creating innovative sustainable materials and processes to create the…
Dow works to reduce plastic waste in Nigeria through local partnerships
Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, Midland, Michigan, announced that Project ReflexNG has launched. The pilot program will aim to collect and recycle plastic scrap in…
Plastic waste kills a Thai elephant in another wake-up call
A male elephant weighing about 3.5 tons and aged around 20, was found dead in the Khao Khitchakut National Park in central Thailand and a…
Facing Export Ban, Australia Invests $132 Million in Recycling Capacity
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…
Egypt: About 40 tons of waste collected from the Red Sea
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…
Meat supply chain pledges to cut waste in half by 2030
38 of the UK’s largest meat producers and retailers have signed a pledge to halve the amount of meat that goes to waste in the…
Spanish police clean up Canary Islands waste-smuggling ring
Spanish police on Monday said they had broken up a criminal organization that illegally shipped 2,500 tonnes of toxic waste from the Canary Islands all…
Polystyrene waste becomes valuable feedstock
ResolVe was granted a funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to explore the recycling of polystyrene. The project proves the…
Brexit risk to waste and resources increasing, says greener UK
The risk posed to the waste and resources sector by Brexit has increased over the last few months, with the UK falling further behind EU…
Europe’s Biggest Waste Producer Strikes Deal to Burn Less Trash
Denmark plans to incinerate less trash and won’t accept as much waste from other countries in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint, the government…
Nike Launches Footwear Collection Made from Post-Consumer Waste
Nike started selling sneakers from its new Space Hippie collection this week. The footwear is constructed from factory and post-consumer waste that the sportswear company…
Pandemic pause on plastic bag regulations a concern for recyclers
Concerns about the potential for spreading the new coronavirus spurred at least four (US) states and many more municipalities to stall or suspend plastic bag…
Kazakhstan Plans To Convert Solid Waste To Energy
As waste management issues have long become an everyday struggle, Central Asia’s largest country is planning to launch the ‘‘Waste-to-energy’’ project to tackle the growing…
IIT researchers develop technology for making high efficiency masks from waste plastic bottles
Researchers at IIT Mandi claim to have developed a technology for making high efficiency masks using waste pet bottles that are not only more breathable…
US ranks 24th in the world on environmental performance
The US is far behind other industrialized nations on environmental performance and now ranks 24th in the world, according to a new analysis by Yale…
Princes commits to no export waste
Food and drink firm Princes has committed to ensuring that all of its packaging is recycled and handled solely by UK re-processors, rather than exporting…
US researchers turn waste bread into added-value
US researchers have developed a bioprocess that converts glucose from bread waste into value-added products, such as ascorbic acid (vitamin c). Working within the USDA’s…
Indonesia processing requests for deep-sea mining waste disposal, says gov’t official
Indonesian authorities are considering two companies’ requests to dispose mining waste into the ocean, a senior government official said on Sunday, at a time of…
Indonesia processing requests for deep-sea mining waste disposal, says gov’t official
Indonesian authorities are considering two companies’ requests to dispose mining waste into the ocean, a senior government official said on Sunday, at a time of…















