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1 day, 17 hours ago

Net-zero 'grocery tax' on packaging set to push up bills by £1.4bn a year - as retail chiefs warn costs of anti-plastic levy will be passed to shoppers

A new 'grocery tax' on packaging materials used by retailers and manufacturers is set to increase bills by £1.4 billion a year. The cost of collecting and disposing of packaging waste is currently taken on by local authorities and funded by council tax In the first year of the scheme, the cheapest packaging is paper or board packaging, costing £215 …

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4 days, 15 hours ago

Why it’s so hard to create a truly recyclable Keurig coffee pod

Salon

There's a Keurig machine in some 40 million households in the U.S. Single-serve coffee brewing systems — which allow consumers to make just one cup of coffee at a time by feeding a pod into a slot and pressing a button — have soared in popularity since the early 2000s. The company's single-use coffee pods — also known as K-cups …

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5 days, 15 hours ago

Raising deposit fees of plastic bottles to €1 will hardly raise recycling percentages

NL Times

Accountancy and consultancy firm PwC has calculated that the recycling percentage would increase by one percentage point if the deposit on small bottles is increased from 15 to 25 cents. If there were to be a 50 cent deposit on small bottles and 1 euro on large bottles instead of 25 cents, the percentage of collected bottles would only increase …

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1 week ago

Clinging to shards of hope: glass on a difficult recycling journey

The Hindu

The efficacy of that Germanic superstition is restricted to porcelain. It is hazardous for our manpower, who handle waste directly, and transporting it is a logistical nightmare.” Even when it is in one piece, glass — which includes glass bottles — is made to feel unwelcome at the hyperlocal level, with many kabadiwalas operating around the street corner spurning it …

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1 week ago

How to tackle plastic pollution and reduce plastic waste

India Today

Plastic pollution is one of the most significant environmental problems our world is facing today. By making small efforts in our daily lives, everyone can contribute significantly to reducing plastic waste. SMALL ACTIONS TO TACKLE PLASTIC POLLUTION Reduce the use of straws, plastic cutlery, and bottled water. This small habit encourages responsible waste management and when consistently followed, this habit …

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1 week, 3 days ago

E-Waste To Used Oil To Tyres: Action Plans For 16 Key Materials In CII Blueprint For 'Sustainable Circular Economy'

ABP News

New Delhi: The Confederation of Indian Industry has launched the second edition of the National Circular Economy Framework outlining comprehensive action plans targeting 16 critical materials. Part 2 presents tailored action plans for specific materials, building on the 2023 framework by including new focus areas such as liquid waste, scrap metal, lithium-ion batteries, solar panels, gypsum, hazardous waste, used oil, …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Toxic chemical in black plastic utensils and toys is not properly regulated by EPA, lawsuit alleges

CNN

CNN — The US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect the public from a dangerous flame retardant — decabromodiphenyl ether, or decaBDE — according to a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of indigenous people in Alaska and California and consumer protection organizations. “The EPA is allowing, without any restrictions, the ongoing recycling of plastics that contain decaBDE and …

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1 week, 4 days ago

American Psycho casting of Austin Butler sees fans call out Hollywood for recycling of same five actors’

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Are there any other actors in Hollywood god damn it’s always the same 3,” wrote …

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1 week, 4 days ago

New Jersey targets plastic packaging that fills landfills and pollutes

Associated Press

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey is aiming to drastically reduce the amount of packaging material — particularly plastic — that is thrown away after the package is opened. The New Jersey bill seeks to move away from plastics and imposes fees on manufacturers and distributors for a $120 million fund to bolster recycling and reduce solid waste. He called the …

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1 week, 5 days ago

New rules proposed on packaging waste management, set to take effect in 2026

India Today

In a significant step to revolutionise packaging waste management, the Environment Ministry has introduced the draft of Environment Protection Rules, 2024. The proposed regulations focus on Extended Producer Responsibility, requiring producers, importers, and brand owners to oversee the entire lifecycle of packaging materials, including paper, glass, metal, and sanitary products. The rules drafted urge people to use recycled materials and …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Recycling crop stubble is the simplest solution for Delhi’s annual smog problem

Hindustan Times

Even as Delhi and the rest of India’s National Capital Region continues to be covered by thick smog, with Air Quality Index still in dangerous zones, we are yet to find a sustainable solution to this annual and largely man-made disaster. An estimated three-fourth of this are used as fodder for cattle and as fuel for a wide range of …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Sole Democrat kicked out of meeting as GOP legislators draft model for state law

Raw Story

Milwaukee State Rep. Ryan Clancy readily admits he was the odd one out last week at a Washington, D.C., meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council. While his attendance was cut short, he said, his time at the session offered a preview of ALEC-inspired legislation that he expects to see in the coming session of the state Legislature, and an …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Tiruchy Corporation's recycling drive in tatters

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: A woman's statue, holding buckets with segregated waste, in a vehicle announcing the importance of recycling is a sight that city residents would have hardly forgotten. Under the initiative, residents were encouraged to give various recyclable materials, including old clothes, to micro compost centres. Clothes collected through the initiative were meant to be used for making cloth bags and …

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Wind-driven brushfire at Baltimore wood recycling yard closes expressway, light rail, schools

Associated Press

BALTIMORE — Firefighters were battling a massive, wind-driven brushfire at a Baltimore wood recycling yard that closed a section of the expressway into the city’s downtown, the neighboring light rail line and nearby roads and schools on Friday morning. Crews were called to the Camp Small yard, where large trees and logs are stacked about 30 feet high, after 5 …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Leave only moonprints: Nasa's lunar recycling ambitions

BBC

Leave only moonprints: Nasa's lunar recycling ambitions Nasa/ Esa When astronauts land on the Moon again as part of the Artemis project, they will have to build a place to live in. Nasa When the new generation of astronauts hits the Moon, the remains of earlier missions like the Surveyor 3 probe could provide vital parts "Flying anything from Earth …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Adjusting to life in regional Aussie towns without yellow-top kerb-side recycling

ABC

Callum Darch's car boot is full when he heads off on the 420-kilometre trip to see his parents in Perth. "It's not a small, insignificant town, and they've got goals to be carbon neutral," Callum said, of the coastal city with a population of about 39,000. A national issue Broken Hill resident Maz Hoelscher also grew up learning about the …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Recycling: Shouldn't that empty can be worth more than 5 cents?

Slate

Late at night on a recent Tuesday, an older man and woman sat together on a low brick wall on the Upper East Side, quietly chatting in Spanish. Even as the cost of living in the city has raced higher, the 5-cent value of these cans and bottles hasn’t changed since New York’s “Bottle Bill” went into effect in 1983, …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

India’s Strategic Push For Self-Reliance In Critical Minerals: How Battery Recycling Is The Right Fit

ABP News

By Manikumar Uppala Modern technologies have deemed some minerals such as cobalt, lithium, nickel, and silicon, among a few others, as critical, especially as the world moves towards clean energy. Critical Mineral Mission Is Need Of The Hour Solar PVs, wind turbines and energy storage systems are the clean energy technologies most important for India’s net zero transition. By recovering …

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Why is a global treaty on plastic pollution dividing the world?

LA Times

Garbage, mostly plastic, collected en route to Mt. Even before the meeting began Monday, South Korean Environment Minister Kim Wan-sup was trying to dial back expectations, telling reporters: “I believe it may be more realistic to pursue stepwise measures.” Here is what you need to know about the problem and the efforts to solve it: How bad is the world’s …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Most electric-car batteries could soon be made by recycling old ones

Live Mint

Despite a slowdown in electric-vehicle sales in some countries, demand for batteries was up by around 40% globally last year, and seems likely to continue at a similar pace. As China also commands the processing of other important battery materials, including manganese, cobalt and nearly all battery-grade graphite, there is concern about the vulnerability of supply chains should China begin …

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4 weeks ago

TDB, Kerala government to identify land for recycling floral waste generated at hill shrine

New Indian Express

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a move to address environmental concerns posed by the large quantity of floral waste generated daily at Sabarimala temple, the state government and the Travancore Devaswom Board is set to launch a first-of-its-kind initiative to convert the floral rejects into value added projects like agarbattis/incense stick. A Kanpur-based company has come forward expressing interest in giving eco-friendly solutions …

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1 month ago

Your junk is needed for the new electric era

Live Mint

ROUYN-NORANDA, Quebec—One of the world’s largest miners is digging into America’s junk drawers, old phones and landfills. Shredded cellphones, obsolete computer cables and chewed-up cars are heaped 30 feet high outside Glencore’s 97-year-old copper smelter deep in Canada’s sparsely populated boreal forest. “In the next 25 years we will consume more copper than humanity has consumed until now," said Kunal …

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1 month ago

China making strides in circular economy

China Daily

The significant advancement of China's circular economy has emerged as a crucial driver of the nation's sustainability efforts, contributing to 25 percent of the country's overall carbon emission reduction, a senior climate expert said. Zhu Liyang, a member of China's National Expert Panel on Climate Change, also noted that despite entering the circular economy arena relatively late, the country has …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Fury over leaked plans for major change to bin collection that will affect thousands in council bid to save cash

Daily Mail

A council is facing fierce backlash from residents over leaked plans to cut black bin collections to just once a month in a bid to save cash. The proposal has sparked an outcry from locals who fear less regular bin collections would increase fly-tipping, hit young families hardest and lead to stinky bins. Hannah Winter, 51, and her partner Sharif …

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