Sweden is considering tax breaks to encourage repair, and a store selling food that’s been discarded by supermarkets has opened in the U.K.
Sweden is considering tax breaks to encourage repair, and a store selling food that’s been discarded by supermarkets has opened in the U.K.
A firm has designed a robot to take apart mattresses for recycling, and a fee on plastic bags seems to be diverting them from curbside bins.
A Gaza plastics company survives polyethylene import restrictions by recycling local scrap, and efforts are afoot to create a worldwide recycling day.
The UN’s top environmental scientist tells a group assembled in Kenya that biodegradable plastics are a false solution to the marine plastics problem, and a Dutch city uses a full suite of technology to optimize its collection routes.
Since the European Commission unveiled its Circular Economy (CE) package last December, there has been significant discussion around the proposed legislation. And perhaps the most vexed topic to date has been how best to calculate recycling rates in the EU and whether to include reuse activities in that determination.
Efforts aimed at organics diversion and food-waste reduction grabbed attention during International Compost Awareness Week.
Publicly traded haulers didn’t see a recycling rebound during the first quarter of 2016.
Garbage and recycling haulers had the fifth-highest death rate of all civilian occupations in 2014, with 27 people losing their lives, updated federal statistics show.
When Energizer developed a battery with 4 percent recycled content, company officials agonized over whether to market the achievement to the public. The concern was the 4 percent figure would leave consumers asking, “Why not more?”
This story originally appeared in the June 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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