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Glasgow residents to be charged for garden waste brown bin collection

Charging for the collection of garden waste was agreed by councillors when they set the budget for 2023 to 2024 last week.

Glasgow Live

Nottingham students to be targeted in key recycling bin changes

Nottingham City Council is trying to improve the area's recycling rates by rolling out a new waste collection strategy

Nottingham Post

UK company offers students free vape for every 10 e-cigarettes they recycle

The scheme hopes to lower the number of 1.3 million that are thrown in the bin every week and sent to landfill

Wales Online

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Gateshead firm iPac creates 100% recyclable packaging with £4.2m funding deal

The family firm is launching two new products and creating new jobs on the back of the HSBC deal

Birmingham Post

Donated clothes an environmental disaster in disguise for developing world

As much as one third of the clothing sent from the wealthy west to developing countries every year may be ending up as landfill. Unwearable polyester garments are little more than "plastic waste in disguise," according to a report on Kenya by the Changing Markets Foundation.

Radio France Internationale

A Peek Into How Battery Recycling Is Evolving

Recycling batteries could be and might as well be the next big thing in the industry, here’s a look into the future recycling process that could come about.

RideApart

Lidl NI rolls out new £2.50 'waste not' fruit & veg boxes

The first of its kind NI retail initiative aims to reduce food waste and help customers eat healthily for less

Belfast Live

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East London residents fear dangerous toxins spewing from ‘decade-long’ landfill fires

People living close to the former landfill site in Rainham are demanding action to end the near-constant fires, reports Barney Davis

Evening Standard

Council boss says plans to bring in green waste charge to Vale of Glamorgan involves risks

A council report revealed a number of risks associated with the green waste collection charge, including a potential "failing" of recycling rates

Wales Online

Row over Mid Ulster recycling centre closures rumbles on as Sinn Féin councillor alleges 'misinformation'

Independent councillor in the Coalisland area Dan Kerr has established a ‘Save Our Skip’ campaign

Belfast Live

Schwalbe Is Developing E-Bike Tires Made Of Recycled Materials

InsideEVs

Woolworths and Coles change strategy as report reveals two-thirds of Aussie rubbish is plastic

Woolworths and Coles adopt new strategies to phase out plastic bags from stores as report reveals two-thirds of rubbish is plastic.

The New Daily

Stop tossing your spent vapes and e-cigs: you're breeding a new waste pandemic

Vaping, or using electronic cigarettes, not only pollutes the surrounding air, it also creates a new contaminated e-waste stream.

The Conversation

Woolworths ditches plastic shopping bags, Coles calls time on mesh produce bag trial

Shoppers around the country will continue to see changes as supermarket giants grapple with the challenge of reducing plastic usage.

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Boots offers advantage card points for recycling your empty make-up products

Be rewarded for handing over your empty products and help the planet while you’re at it

AAP

Business calls on govt to clean up Sydney rubbish row

Business Sydney wants the state government to urgently end a dispute that's left thousands of tonnes of garbage piling up uncollected ahead of World Pride.

Bristol Post

Bristol Waste loses third top boss in just six months – but councillors were not told

The city council's company is about to publish its annual business plan

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Continental Tires Will Be Made Of Rubber, Plastic, And Ag Waste By 2050

The goal is to have sustainable tires made with 100 percent recycled materials.

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Scotland’s deposit return scheme: Minister says it's 'all systems go' despite warnings from drinks industry leaders

Scheme designed to reduce waste and littering has faced criticism over potential cost to businesses

The National (Scotland)

What is Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme and when will it go live?

LORNA Slater has said that Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme will “absolutely” go ahead this August.

Daily Record

Fears drinks firms will 'stop selling in Scotland' because of deposit return scheme

Lorna Slater, the Greens minister responsible for delivering the flagship recycling scheme, insisted it would start this year as planned.

Birmingham Post

Welsh energy intensive firms awarded £5.5m UK grant funding to cut carbon emissions

Dunbia and Celsa Steel have been awarded the funding to deploy new green technologies

The Conversation

Gold mining is one of the world’s most destructive and unnecessary industries – here's how to end it

The 16th-century King Ferdinand of Spain sent his subjects abroad with the command: “Get gold, humanely if possible, but at all hazards, get gold.” His statement rings true today. Gold remains one of the world’s most expensive substances, but mining it is one of the most environmentally and socially destructive…

The National (Scotland)

Scottish hospital trials UK-first 'reverse vending machine' scheme

The trial initiative started yesterday, ahead of the nationwide Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) coming into effect

The Independent UK

Pupils should shift focus away from creating products that ‘end up in landfill’

Education company Pearson is calling for a new design and technology curriculum where students design ‘for the planet’.

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