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These high street stores including Boots, M&S and Primark will pay you to recycle your empty and old products

If you’re finished with your products or you’re ready to declutter your closet, many stores will offer benefits for handing them over rather than slinging them in the bin

Chronicle Live

Nottinghamshire tip to shut while 'urgent works' take place

Nottinghamshire residents are being invited to use 11 other tips across the county

Nottingham Post

Hull recycler joins forces with Harrods' beauty team to clean up cosmetics

Trial begins to repurpose, return or recycle hard-to-handle products with iconic retailer

Birmingham Post

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Thousands of M&S shoppers bagging 'stylish and durable' bargain for just 60p

The new design for Marks and Spencer's reusable shopping bag has been created by Yinka Ilori - a former M&S alumni who worked for the supermarket for eight years as he started out his art career

Daily Mirror

‘Ticking timebomb’ as ageing landfill dumps threaten English beaches

Local government survey shows 26 councils have sites already spilling waste on to cliffs and into sea

The Guardian - UK

We Asked A Recycling Company Worker What We’re All Doing Wrong It’s A Lot

To help debunk false myths about how to recycle properly, we spoke to the Circular Economy Manager at Containers for Change.

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Thousands of M&S shoppers buying bargain 60p item that's the 'first of its kind'

The retailer has made a big change to the design of its carrier bags, which shoppers have been loving.

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Nine tonnes of waste dumped on busy road after smoke spotted from bin lorry

An incorrectly disposed of flammable device is believed to have caused the fire

Liverpool Echo

Dumfries Lions Club launches appeal for unwanted glasses for charity

Specs that are no longer needed will be collected and distributed to people around the world

Daily Record

Glasgow man wins £17,000 in compensation after being unfairly dismissed from job

Mr Burns worked as a driver for Recycled Packaging Ltd for 12 years before being unfairly dismissed. The firm has now been ordered to pay him more than £17,000 for the deduction of his wages and his dismissal.

Glasgow Live

Designers look to nature, landfills for new decor materials

At first glance, Nina Edwards Ankers’ sconces and chandeliers look like ancient scrolls of parchment or sheets of buttery toffee wrapped around LED bulbs

The Independent UK

Mumbai airport installs 'Reverse Vending Machines' for recycling of single-use plastics

MUMBAI: Three Reverse Vending Machines (RVM), so called because they recycle plastic bottles, have been installed at the Mumbai airport terminal 2, said the airport spokesperson.

The Times of India

'Dismal' figures show thousands of tonnes of Ayrshire rubbish being sent to landfill

In South Ayrshire, just 56 per cent of household waste was recycled in 2021- leaving a massive 19.706 tonnes of waste going to landfill.

Daily Record

On Ropar MLA's directions, PPCB issues notice against branded companies for not recycling waste plastic envelopes

ROPAR: On the instruction of Ropar MLA Advocate Dinesh Chadha, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has issued a notice against branded companies for not recycling the waste plastic envelopes.

The Times of India

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Call for emergency meeting to address 'crisis' of missed bin collections in Belfast

The council has said that a shortage of drivers impacted on the delivery of bin collections

Birmingham Post

Tech disposal firm relocates to Staffs business park

Computer Disposal Experts has taken space on Burntwood Business Park

ABC News

Canberrans' reuseable waste sent to Sydney for recycling after fire destroyed ACT facility

About 36 tonnes of recyclable material is being sent each day to a facility in Western Sydney, as the ACT expedites the construction of a new recycling centre.

Chicago Sun-Times

General Iron owner says ‘smoking gun’ from Ald. Garza shows permit was wrongly denied

Garza provided internal city communications to the metal shredder’s owner that suggest the city was preparing to issue a draft permit in April 2021, lawyers say.

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The Canberra Times

Recycling material being diverted to Western Sydney

At this stage approximately 36 tonnes of material is being transported to Sydney.

Evening Standard

Why are milk bottle tops now white or clear? Supermarkets ditch coloured caps

Coloured milk bottle caps are handy for shoppers but unfortunately come at an environmental cost

Edinburgh Live

How to get paid to recycle from major retailers including Boots, John Lewis, Lush and more

If you are finished with an old product be it your favourite face mask, other beauty product or even shoes, then you might want to keep them as you could benefit from them rather than throwing them in the bin.

Radio France Internationale

Tunisian former minister jailed over toxic waste scandal

A former environment minister of Tunisia has been sentenced to three years in jail for his role in the illegal import of 280 containers of waste from Italy, according to local media in the capital, Tunis.

The Independent UK

13 stylish ways to get organised at home

Because January calls for a clear-up, says Sam Wylie-Harris.

ABC News

Repurposing for Resilience recycle old solar panels for energy and art to stop e-waste going to landfill

Old solar panels with plenty of electricity still to give are being saved from landfill and reused by a not-for-profit organisation determined to address what is set to become a major waste issue.

AAP

Failed recycling program a fire hazard

The fire hazard posed by more than 3000 tonnes of soft plastic being stored after the collapse of a recycling program is being monitored by the EPA.

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