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You have to use a cotton tote thousands of times to make up for its environmental impact. If you’re trying to contribute as little as possible t... (2019)
Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives. "Tens of thousands of ag... (2022)
But they need to be designed to make recycling them easier | Science & technology Scrapyards of tomorrow - Old electric cars are a raw material ... (2021)
It’s still costly and inefficient. So why do we keep doing it? (2020)
The near-absence of public garbage bins in cities like Tokyo is both a security measure and a reflection of a cultural aversion to littering. "F... (2019)
SUPERMARKETS encourage shoppers to buy products through clever layouts and cunning promotions. Packaging presents items in an alluring way. It also... (2019)
The material can easily be separated from additives to produce pristine recycled plastic (2019)
A compulsory recycling scheme in South Korea has dramatically cut the amount of food the country throws away. Here's how it works. (2019)
Leave your plastic at home on your next European vacation. (2019)
The $24B promotional products industry is an environmental nightmare. We’re facing a full-on environmental crisis. Do you really need another fli... (2018)
OF ALL the plastic produced since the 1950s, less than 10% has been recycled. The vast majority ends up being dumped, most of it in landfill. Some ... (2018)
The environmental consequences of plastic solid waste are visible in the ever-increasing levels of global plastic pollution both on land and in the... (2017)
Even if you put everything into the right blue bins, a lot of plastics will end up in landfills and the ocean. Consumers can't solve this problem. (2018)
An avid kayaker, Dave Doebler was out paddling in Biscayne Bay one day when he saw trash floating in the water. He instinctively picked it up to to... (2018)
French water and waste group Veolia has opened what it says is Europe's first recycling plant for solar panels and aims to build more as thousands ... (2018)
Plastics and papers from dozens of American cities and towns are being dumped in landfills after China stopped recycling most “foreign garbage.” (2018)
Can you recycle coffee cups or greasy pizza boxes? If you’re tossing things in the recycling bin out of sheer hope, you might be an “aspirational r... (2018)
Boyan Slat dropped out of school to work on his design for a device that could collect the trillions of pieces of plastic floating in the ocean. Af... (2018)
A MILLION plastic bottles are sold every minute. Many are not recycled and of those that are, only a small fraction become bottles again. That is, ... (2018)
IN A paper published last year in Science Advances, Roland Geyer of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his colleagues put the cumulat... (2018)
LEAVING unwanted broccoli on your plate is not just bad manners. It is also poor treatment of the planet. Perhaps a third of the world’s food—1.3 b... (2018)
FOR anyone who has tried jogging through smog, the physically sapping impacts of air pollution should come as no surprise. But pollution doesn’t ju... (2018)
EVERY night Gabriel Cazuza drags his two-wheeled, metal-framed carroça through the streets of São Paulo collecting aluminium, paper, cardboard and ... (2017)
EVERY night Gabriel Cazuza drags his two-wheeled, metal-framed carroça through the streets of São Paulo collecting aluminium, paper, cardboard and ... (2017)
With the packaging market being valued at as much as €1 trillion globally it’s become a ripe field for startups to engage this market with digital (2024)
A new plant in France aims to extract silver from old solar panels to make recycling them worth the trouble. (2022)
The nascent recycling industry needs to economically deconstruct lots of formats. (2022)
When it comes to recycling, it can be tough to separate myths from reality. How do we know what to recycle?... (2020)
The campaign against disposable bags and other products is harming the planet and the public. (2020)
The federal government says it’s pursuing all legal options against the now-defunct company that shipped tons of garbage to the Philippines, but ex... (2019)
America produces more waste per capita than any other country in the world. And recycling, which was once considered the solution to that problem, ... (2021)
FRANCE 24 live news stream: all the latest news 24/7 When it comes to environmental awareness and waste management, Sweden is one of the world'... (2019)
Going green does not need to be a sacrifice, either for us as individuals or for businesses, governments and the economy. This is the second episod... (2018)
Pro-tip: You're not supposed to recycle plastic bags at home. WATCH to see what you should do with these bags instead. (2018)
Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Material... (2019)