When asked what U.K. consumers do with clothing they no longer wear, “donate” and “recycle” were the top responses.
When asked what U.K. consumers do with clothing they no longer wear, “donate” and “recycle” were the top responses.
The program seeks to rescue student goods that would otherwise be trashed.
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The activewear giant has used chemical recycling to make jersey for 16 teams competing in the tournament. But the technique is unlikely to help solve fashion’s waste issue.
Amidst the ongoing RAM & storage apocalypses, Mad Max-esque scenes are unsurprisingly developing, with the eMMC recycling project by [Chase Fournier] from a pair of XBox One S (‘XBone’) mainboards …read more
Upcycled materials have become a familiar part of sustainable design, but most of them still try to hide where they came from. The aluminum gets...
By Bernie Bell. I’ve written about Restart Orkney a few times. It’s A GOOD THING The premises next door, which had been Orkney PC, was standing empty, so the decision was made to make something a bit special in that space. The ‘old‘ Restart is still very much in operation, selling larger items of furniture, books, […]
German equipment brand Sennebogen recently demonstrated a semi-autonomous material handling solution that combines an electric wheeled excavator, mobile battery, and a mobile shredder to improve throughput and efficiency in European recycling plants.
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Hotter, drier weather, poor planning and a ballooning population are putting enormous pressure on the American West’s water supply. So, to get more out of every drop, some cities and counties are beginning to recycle their water — collecting what goes down the drain, removing the icky stuff and then...
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Pick up a pack of BIC Ecolutions Ocean-Bound Plastic Gel Pens and you're holding a well-designed piece of contemporary marketing. The pen is real. The recycled content is real. The environmental crisis it invokes is very real. What's missing is the part where any of it meaningfully addresses the problem. This is an economics-first look at how ocean plastic marketing works, why it falls short, and…
Yes. Colorado recycled just 15.7% of all of its municipal solid waste in 2024, the most recent year for which data is available.
Software that collects public data from the Internet and uses it to provide half-assed answers to your questions might seem like a modern craze, but today we bid farewell to …read more
Calling on the industry to unite in the nationwide initiative.
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Integrating sustainable solutions beyond the car
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The French biotech firm’s 2025 financials revealed a period of sizable operational simplifications and strategic shifts toward a licensing model.
Being late to the game may actually have given the country an advantage.
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A $200 million statewide curbside plan violates transparency rules and interstate commerce and raises consumer prices, lawsuit says
The one for sure thing in Denver-based Trash Panda’s business plan is that the supply of raw materials is endless
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Frappuccino lovers, rejoice: Your plastic to-go cups are now “widely recyclable.” That’s according to an announcement made in February by Starbucks, the waste hauler WM (formerly known as Waste Management), and three recycling groups called The Recycling Partnership, GreenBlue, and Closed […]
Author and poet Too Black returns to discuss the relationship between violent and nonviolent movements, and why nonviolent movements ultimately need violence to win.
Clear Drop’s Soft Plastic Compactor is a unique household recycling solution that’s fun to use, but who is it for?
One recent opinion poll found that half of Poles dislike the system while only a quarter approve of it.
You will never need that weird charger from 2012. These tips to tidy up your tech will help you sort out your cable collection, organize your gadgets, and get rid of aging ones.
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The space-saving method is known as a "seed snail" or "seed sushi."
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For seven years, she ran high-security nuclear simulations for the US government. Now, this famous supercomputer is being put to death.
After years of pilot projects and false starts, textile-to-textile recycling is finally investing in large-scale production plants. As the industry hits commercial scale, these are the locations to note.
There’s a good way to throw out the ISS. And then there’s a really bad way.
SM makes a waste-free future a reality
History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.