Bryan residents are encouraged to seek recycling services from private companies as the city moves toward closing its drive-in recycling center off …
Recycling, reusing and reimagining rubbish into clothing and accessories
Alice Halliday hates waste. “I use old things to make new things,” says the fashion designer and stylist, a southern star based in Skibbereen whose …
Portsmouth’s food waste recycling could be doubled under new plans
Currently 8,000 homes in the city are part of a food waste recycling trial but proposals for Portsmouth City Council’s capital budget allocate £221,000 to …
Green boost for North Tyneside as even more plastics can be recycled
Green boost for North Tyneside as even more plastics can be recycled … “Recycling these new plastics is very simple but we do ask people to help us …
Experts Answer: How to Get Terrace Gardens to Yield More Crops?
They have a wide variety of home composting kits and other eco-friendly products that can really amp up your home garden game. ‘Grow It Yourself’ …
Whitland recycling centre closure plan prompts fly-tipping concerns
A recycling centre could be closed to help council officials balance its books, prompting fly-tipping concerns. Closing Whitland’s recycling centre would …
Bottles or cans – an energy analysis of recycling that prompts more questions than answers
‘In truth, the word ‘recycle‘ means very different things for paper, plastic and aluminium, and the interconnected nature of monetary cost, energy cost …
Green bins will cost £50 to empty as council attempts to cut carbon emissions
North Somerset Council agreed to start charging £50 a year for each 240-litre green bin it empties while promoting home composting in a bid to cut …
New report suggests phasing out ‘problematic plastics’ to tackle recycling crisis
Australia needs a “comprehensive and consistent” system to recycle plastics, experts have warned. In a new report, experts say Australia needs to …
Making the impossible possible
Sitting at a bus stop one day when she was 16, When Miranda Wang saw someone throw a plastic bottle into a trash bin, even though the recycling …