Football shirts, sports event banners and uniforms are piled up ready to be pumped into a machine which melts them down for recycling ready to…
View More ‘A world first’: project recycles polyester into yarn for new clothesTag: Waste
Labour says it would aim for zero-waste economy by 2050
A Labour government would aim for a zero-waste economy by 2050, the shadow environment secretary has said. Steve Reed said the measure would save billions…
View More Labour says it would aim for zero-waste economy by 2050UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant
The UK government is providing a €700m (£600m) guarantee for the billionaire Jim Ratcliffe to build the biggest petrochemical plant in Europe in 30 years…
View More UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plantRevealed: the 1,200 big methane leaks from waste dumps trashing the planet
There have been more than 1,000 huge leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane from landfill waste dumps since 2019, the Guardian can reveal. Analysis…
View More Revealed: the 1,200 big methane leaks from waste dumps trashing the planetEnvironment Agency failed to protect River Wye from chicken waste, court to hear
o The Environment Agency and the UK government failed to protect the River Wye from catastrophic decline by allowing pollution from industrial chicken farming to…
View More Environment Agency failed to protect River Wye from chicken waste, court to hearRetailers to pay for consumers’ e-waste recycling from 2026 under UK plans
British households will benefit from improved routes for recycling electronic goods from 2026, under government plans to have producers and retailers pay for household and…
View More Retailers to pay for consumers’ e-waste recycling from 2026 under UK plansThe zero-waste city: what Kiel in Germany can teach the world
The hair that drops in clumps on the floors of some salons in Kiel, a port city in northern Germany, is swept up to be…
View More The zero-waste city: what Kiel in Germany can teach the world‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world
In 2001, a group of Japanese scientists made a startling discovery at a rubbish dump. In trenches packed with dirt and waste, they found a…
View More ‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the worldStitch in time: France to help pay for clothes to be mended to cut waste
A broken heel, a rip in trousers, buttons missing from a shirt? Don’t throw them away if you live in France, where the government will…
View More Stitch in time: France to help pay for clothes to be mended to cut wasteHigh levels of drugs found in sea off south England coast
A study looking at water pollution on the south coast of England has revealed high levels of potentially harmful chemicals including recreational drugs and antidepressants.…
View More High levels of drugs found in sea off south England coast