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Car battery 'passports' could help manage growing waste

Australia should adopt a tracking scheme and battery passports like Europe to deal with the growing pile of electric car waste, an inquiry has heard.

AAP · Oct 11, 2024

Scam warning over little-known phone number rule

There are reports of people being bombarded with calls from debt collectors or people contacting them to buy drugs

The Independent UK · Oct 10, 2024

Where and how to recycle your old electrical items as Brits are urged to raid 'drawers of doom'

‘Drawers of doom’ in homes up and down the UK contain millions of items made with recyclable copper, a study has found

Evening Standard · Oct 8, 2024

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700 million plastic bottles: we worked out how much microplastic is in Queensland’s Moreton Bay

When it rains heavily, plastic waste is washed off our streets into rivers, flowing out to the ocean. Most plastic is trapped in estuaries and coastal ecosystems, with a small fraction ending up offshore in the high seas.

The Conversation · Oct 8, 2024

Britons urged to dig out unwanted electricals to tackle copper shortage

Items such as cables and old tech could contain £266m worth of metal vital for decarbonisation drive, study finds

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2024

British food firms lobbied to defer £1.7bn plastic packaging tax, documents reveal

New scheme to improve recycling rates and tackle pollution was pushed back by Tories after industry complaints

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2024

Climate protest heroes are prisoners of conscience

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2024

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One in three Australians throwing unwanted clothes in rubbish, survey finds

RMIT-led study recommends a national recycling scheme to reduce the 200,000 tonnes of textiles sent to landfill each year

The Guardian - AU · Oct 1, 2024

Most soft plastic collected for recycling is burned, campaigners say

Campaigners call supermarket takeback schemes a diversion and say there is too much plastic packaging

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2024

Harvesting hops for beer produces a lot of waste. These German groups are seeking to fix that

A startup called HopfON — a play on Hopfen, the German word for hops — and a research society in Bavaria are seeking to solve the problem of waste created during the hops harvest in Germany

The Independent UK · Oct 1, 2024

BT pockets £105m in first ever recycling deal for surplus copper cables

Telecoms firm has so far extracted 3,300 tonnes of potential 200,000 tonnes of cables amid £15bn rollout of full-fibre broadband

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2024

Burning rubbish to create energy could end landfills. But some worry where Australia’s new path is leading

Some conservationists believe ‘incineration industry’ is trying to gain a foothold in Australia and say the trend will end up damaging the environment

The Guardian - AU · Sep 28, 2024

Warning issued after refuse worker rushed to hospital following latest bin lorry explosion

A refuse worker was rushed to hospital after the explosion in east London

Evening Standard · Sep 27, 2024

Recycling rate falls in UK as just 44% of household waste is recycled

England’s recycling rate decreased in 2022 as rest of UK improved but country still lags behind Europe

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2024

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The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2024

A father-of-one was found dead on a conveyor belt at a New Jersey recycling plant. The company said he never worked there

Nicholas Holsten found dead by workers sorting metal at Republic Services facility

The Conversation · Sep 24, 2024

Where do we stash the equivalent of 110 Sydney harbour bridges? That’s the conundrum Australia faces as oil and gas rigs close

Oil and gas wells are dotted off Australia’s shores. They involve huge steel structures fixed firmly to the sea floor, and thousands of kilometres of pipelines.

The Guardian - US · Sep 24, 2024

Clothes piling up in your closet? A landmark California bill would mandate brands recycle them

California could become the first state to tackle the fast fashion waste overwhelming consumers and landfills

The Conversation · Sep 23, 2024

Can you trust companies that say their plastic products are recyclable? US regulators may crack down on deceptive claims

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most recent year for which national data is available. The rest was burned in waste-to-energy plants…

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Evening Standard · Sep 23, 2024

Majority of Britons want deposit added to drinks cans to boost recycling rates, poll shows

The majority Britons want the government to press ahead with a scheme that would see a deposit added to the price of drinks containers to boost recycling rates, a new poll has revealed.

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2024

US stops hazardous waste shipments to Michigan from Ohio after court decision

The federal government has stopped sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2024

Packaging tax will raise price of many everyday items, say UK firms

Cost of soft drinks, beer and kettles likely to increase as a result of scheme that shifts recycling fees to manufacturers

InsideEVs · Sep 19, 2024

Europe Is In EV Freakout Mode

Today on Critical Materials: Europe enters freakout mode over ICE ban, Italy fears it's "self-destructive," and BMW and Redwood team up to recycle batteries

RideApart · Sep 17, 2024

Researchers Discover New Battery Recycling Method, Could Change the Game

A research team from Rice University has discovered an efficient and cost-effective way of extracting raw materials from depleted EV batteries.

The Conversation · Sep 16, 2024

UK public is becoming more ‘carbon capable’ – here’s what that means

As climate change intensifies, rising public awareness and incremental behavioural changes will hopefully evolve into transformative action. We investigate how lifestyles and systems of governance need to change to bring about a sustainable, low-carbon future in the UK.

The Guardian - AU · Sep 12, 2024

Frayed cables and yellow pillows: how to fix, reuse or ditch 12 confusing kinds of household clutter

Different parts of Australia have different laws on recycling but there are also services to fix many common objects

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