The leftover stems and leaves of the potato are the world’s largest untapped agricultural feedstock. Currently pulverised and incinerated, this unusable organic material cannot be fed to livestock or ...

Repak’s sixth annual Plastic Pledge Report found its Plastic Pledge Signatories (Ireland) achieved an average recycling rate of 72% in 2023. ...

A pioneering textile-recycling bill SB 707 has successfully passed the California Assembly Natural Resources Committee (US). Known as the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, this legislation est...

Transforming high-quality waste materials from luxury brands into high value artworks, Installations, and products. Thats the real goal of MM-ART CONSULT at the forefront of redefining luxury throu...

The annual Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) report shows that approximately 18.1 million appliances were collected for recycling in Ireland....

The Central Park (NY, US) is testing out a new recycling bin designed to easily fit cardboard pizza boxes. It will alleviate some of the trash pileup in the park’s round canisters. ...

Biotech start-up PlantSea (UK) has developed a new material made from seaweed-derived fibres, blended with recycled and virgin paper fibres. The paper is home and industrially compostable and can be r...

The rules include packaging reduction targets (5% by 2030, 10% by 2035 and 15% by 2040) and require EU countries to reduce the amount of plastic packaging waste....

RECOUP said year-on-year, despite increases in material being recycled in the UK, quantities of plastic waste exported for recycling from England have increased by more than 10% to just over 600,000 t...

Residents of Wells will soon participate in a pioneering recycling trial, as Somerset extends its successful flexible plastics collection scheme...

Enva has now begun the installation of equipment which will see the site fully operational and capable of processing all Scotland’s waste fridges by spring 2024....

Sports company PUMA says it has produced an experimental sneaker that is compostable under certain tailor-made industrial conditions following two years of research....

Britain came out on top when 21 teams from around the world gathered in Tokyo this week to collect litter in the inaugural SpoGomi World Cup, an initiative aimed at raising awareness of environmental ...

TOMRA revolutionizes its product portfolio with the launch of the new INNOSORT™ FLAKE for high-throughput purification of plastic flakes. Its enhanced features enable simultaneous flake sorting by pol...

Sysav Industri AB is now operating the world’s first fully automated sorting plant for textiles recycling in Malmö, Sweden. The plant is fully automated – people are needed only to start and stop the...

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) installs plastic bottle recycling machines. A new plastic bottle recycling machine was installed on October 18 at the Annam Gourmet store, Thu Duc City. It is anticipated th...

Protein Evolution, a young biotech company that utilises biological processes to promote the transition to a lower-carbon, circular economy for materials and plastics, has announced the launch of new ...

Aimplas turns poultry feather waste into sustainable foams suitable for hydroponic crop systems....

People are getting 10p back for their used drinks containers in a Brecon (UK) trialling a deposit scheme that could come to all parts of the country....

After announcing proposals to manufacture LEGO® bricks from recycled PET in 2021, the toy giant has shelved the plans after finding using the material did not reduce carbon emissions. The move, which ...

RWM - Resource and Waste Management Expo has ended on 14 of September at NEC, Birmingham (UK). Watch the magic that unfolded at Environmental Services and Solutions Expo 2023. ...

A pioneering biological recycling process uses naturally occurring enzymes to transform plastic and textile waste into new products with no loss of quality. Enzymes are complex molecules, or proteins,...

CIWM premiers multi-platform digital campaign to inspire ‘A World Beyond Waste’. 13 Sept 2023 - CIWM (the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) has partnered with CWP to produce a multi-platform...

ZenRobotics and Terex Recycling Systems to Deliver a Fully Robotised Material Recovery Facility in Norway. ...

An innovative recycler in Spain has identified a way of applying Nexam’s unique Reactive Recycling technology to enable closed loop recycling of food trays into new food trays. ...

Juno Technology uses a wet processing system to reclaim contaminated fiber. ...

The Dutch company Myne, formerly Reukema,with Delft University of Technology ​ is launching the world's first digital recycling plant....

Subway launches new uniforms made from recycled bottles.During trials, 70% of Subway’s franchisees and employees rated them positively for comfort and durability....

RWM - Resource and Waste Management Expo will start on 13 of September at NEC, Birmingham (UK)....

Australian engineers to make stronger concrete with old coffee grounds. Researchers have given tons of waste coffee grounds a “double shot” at life, by infusing it into concrete—where it not only incr...