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Consumers want businesses to be more sustainable - by using more recyclable packaging

Three-quarters of Brits feel sustainability and climate change are important - but over half think businesses are simply 'greenwashing' for marketing purposes

Daily Mirror

Children as young as nine say they are ill from work recycling plastic in Turkey

Human Rights Watch says failure to enforce laws worsens health impact at centres, amid steep rise in EU and UK waste exports

The Guardian - UK

Recycling data centers' heat could be an environmental win-win

Cities in Sweden and Norway are aiming to recycle the heat given off by data centers.

Axios

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BMW To Use Recycled Fishing Nets In Its Neue Klasse Cars From 2025

BMW will use the material for interior and exterior trim pieces.

Motor1

Recycled water for drinking should be considered for Sydney, new strategy finds

NSW government should also consider having additional desalination plants and plan for new ‘rainfall-independent’ water sources, report says

The Guardian - AU

The Macallan Horizon Comes In Weird Bottle Made From Recycled Bentleys

Plus other repurposed or ethically sourced materials from both brands.

Motor1

Recycling Waste Plastic Can Produce Fuel And Durable Goods

The study's findings were published in the journal ACS Catalysis.

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Wind turbine blades could be recycled into gummy bears, scientists say

Researchers design composite resin for blades that can be broken down to make new products including sweets

The Guardian - UK

Scientists finally found an efficient way to recycle plastic foam — it could make them rich

Engineers found a way to turn a common type of plastic called polystyrene, which is often used to make styrofoam, into a valuable aromatic chemical used to scent soaps, flavor foods, and stabilize industrial dyes.

Inverse

Wagamama replacing 8m delivery bowls with recyclable alternative to save 330 tonnes of plastic a year

Evening Standard

'I saw documentaries on recycling not working. I wanted to prove them wrong'

Resourceful Living is an entrant in the Hunter Manufacturing Awards. Nominations close August 19.

Newcastle Herald

Can you recycle old make-up packaging? Here's what's happening in the $8 billion industry that creates tonnes of waste

Make-up brands and retailers are now introducing recycling programs so old cosmetics waste can be turned into new products, but how effective are they and what makes the packaging so hard to recycle in the first place?

ABC News

Fire crews tackle waste recycling factory fire in west London

Ten gas cylinders were removed as a precaution

Evening Standard

Rubbish revelations: collectors combine recycling and garbage in some Sydney streets

Canterbury-Bankstown mayor says bin mixing due to ‘problematic locations’, sparking wider reflection on Australia’s waste system

The Guardian - AU

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Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles could soon put recycled water directly in your tap. It’s not ‘toilet to tap’

LOS ANGELES —Water has always been recycled. The water molecules in your shower or cup of coffee might just be the same molecules that rained on dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago.

The Times of India

West Bengal: NKDA starts waste water recycling scheme in New Town

KOLKATA: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has kicked off a pilot scheme to treat and recycle waste water for watering plants in parks, gardens, road dividers, and medians in New Town.

The Guardian - UK

‘We haven’t been given the money to get it right’: why so much of the UK is rubbish at recycling

Despite our commitment to sustainable living, domestic recycling is getting worse. Who – or what – is to blame?

The Hindu

Road built with 100% recycled plastic waste between Ecoworld and Outer Ring Road

The road has been constructed using what is touted as a first-of-its-kind solution by PotHoleRaja called GridMats

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Daily Mirror

'Exporting discarded plastic waste betrays Brits who sort waste for recycling'

The exporting of discarded plastic betrays the millions of people who diligently sort waste for recycling, expecting it to be reused to ease the burden on the planet

Daily Mirror

Tons of plastic waste put in UK recycling bins illegally dumped and burnt in Turkey

Daily Mirror Environment Editor Nada Farhoud discovered the scale of our environmental shame in Adana, Turkey, where dozens of items of British packaging were found among the debris of a rubbish tip

The Conversation

Brands are leaning on 'recycled' clothes to meet sustainability goals. How are they made? And why is recycling them further so hard?

Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than human need. Over the past decade, the term “circular economy” has entered the fashion industry lexicon, wherein materials are made to be reused and recycled by design.

The Times of India

India ranks 4th in global gold recycling; recycled 75 tonnes in 2021: WGC

MUMBAI: India has emerged as the fourth largest recycler in the world and the country has recycled 75 tonnes in 2021, according to a World Gold Council (WGC) report.

Marie Claire

Fashions' Guide to Easily Upcycling and Recycling Clothes

These are the best brands championing sustainability with resale and buyback programs.

The Conversation

Whales and dolphins found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the first time

Scientific research doesn’t usually mean being strapped in a harness by the open paratroop doors of a Vietnam-war-era Hercules plane. But that’s the situation I found myself in several years ago, the result of which has just been published in the journal Marine Biodiversity.

Newcastle Herald

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France - so what can we do about?

Preventing plastic from entering the ocean is most important, academic says.

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