Japan pushes reuse market as new consumption model
Reusing products and materials instead of discarding them is taking hold as a new consumption model in Japan.…
Female-Led Arab Team Turn Coffee and Plastic Waste into Activated Carbon, Capturing CO2 in the Atmosphere
credit Haif Aljomard / SWNS A new technology utilizing coffee and plastic waste is designed to capture carbon…
Biodegradable Plastic Made from Bamboo Is Stronger and Easy to Recycle
Bamboo forest – credit Bady Abbas, via Unsplash GNN has reported previously on how versatile bamboo is for…
World’s first solar-powered furnaces unveiled to recycle luxury steel
A Swiss company has recently launched the world’s first two solar furnaces that will reportedly melt down and…
China offers unlikely glimmer of hope in fight against plastic pollution – POLITICO
The Chinese wild card Countries in the self-named High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution — which backs…
Japan backs development of new materials to cut marine plastic waste
The industry ministry is supporting the development of a new plastic material that naturally decomposes in the sea…
How your coffee grounds are being recycled with animal poo to help grow gardens across Victoria’s zoos
As far as rubbish goes, it smells pretty good. Former barista Ninna Larsen wheels a common rubbish bin…
EU probes Greece on recycling projects – POLITICO
The company had won the tender for the project despite suggesting that the kiosks would be around five…
Illegal tyre dumping scam shut down as NT Environment Protection Authority opens investigation
When Anwar Albatat returned to work after a two-week holiday, he was stunned by what had been left…
Battery in bin causes fire, leads to 15 tonnes of rubbish dumped in Dubbo street
It took just eight seconds and one embedded battery for a routine garbage run to end with 15…
Port Adelaide Salvage and director found guilty of illegally dumping asbestos
An Adelaide demolition company and its director have been ordered to pay more than $700,000 after being found…
Australia and the US are at odds on a plastics treaty, with last-ditch negotiations underway
On Monday, esteemed British medical journal The Lancet delivered a dire warning, as nations were readying for last-ditch…