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Pua Lay Peng lives on the front lines of the global plastic pollution crisis. The 52-year-old’s hometown of Jenjarom, Malaysia has been transformed in recent years by thousands of tons of imported plastic waste from the U.S. and other wealthy nations. As a result, the once quiet agricultural town she grew up in is now […]
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Bright pink bins for electrical waste have resulted in nine times more e-waste being collected for recycling, say councils. Greater Cambridge Shared Waste Service, a partnership between Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council, installed the new collection banks last year in a bid to reduce the hundreds of tonnes of electrical items that […]
A massive fire has broken out at a recycling facilty in Mesa Del Sol, Albuquerque, New Mexico – huge plumes of smoke can be seen for miles around and emergency services have rushed to the scene Albuquerque fire: Thick black smoke caught on camera Thick plumes of black smoke are soaring into the atmosphere as […]
Medical technology company BD uses a tremendous amount of plastics to manufacture an array of single-use devices. It also happens to be in the vanguard of medical device companies seeking to inject circularity into healthcare. Its latest project involves studying the feasibility of recycling used blood collection tubes in collaboration with academic institutions, medical facilities, and […]
Feb 27 (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Department on Monday said it will lend Li-Cycle Holdings Corp (LICY.N) $375 million as it builds a battery recycling facility in New York set to become one of the country’s largest sources of lithium by next year.
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Paper mills around the city of Muzaffarnagar in India rely on imported waste paper — and for energy they often burn unwanted plastic that comes mixed into the recycling shipments. Videographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg Plastic wrappers and parcels that start off in Americans’ recycling bins end up at illegal dumpsites and industrial furnaces — and inside […]
Jessica Heiges is a PhD candidate in environmental science, policy, and management, and Kate O’Neill is a professor of global environmental politics, at the University of California, Berkeley. They recently published research titled “A Recycling Reckoning: How Operation National Sword catalyzed a transition in the U.S. plastic recycling system.” The U.S. plastics recycling system is […]
When most people toss a plastic bottle or cup into the recycling bin, they assume that means the plastic is recycled – but a new report lays bare how rarely that actually happens. According to the Last Beach Cleanup and Beyond Plastics, the organization behind the report released on Wednesday, the recycling rate for post-consumer […]