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Scientists finally found an efficient way to recycle plastic foam — it could make them rich

Engineers found a way to turn a common type of plastic called polystyrene, which is often used to make styrofoam, into a valuable aromatic chemical used to scent soaps, flavor foods, and stabilize industrial dyes.

Inverse

Wagamama replacing 8m delivery bowls with recyclable alternative to save 330 tonnes of plastic a year

Evening Standard

'I saw documentaries on recycling not working. I wanted to prove them wrong'

Resourceful Living is an entrant in the Hunter Manufacturing Awards. Nominations close August 19.

Newcastle Herald

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Can you recycle old make-up packaging? Here's what's happening in the $8 billion industry that creates tonnes of waste

Make-up brands and retailers are now introducing recycling programs so old cosmetics waste can be turned into new products, but how effective are they and what makes the packaging so hard to recycle in the first place?

ABC News

Fire crews tackle waste recycling factory fire in west London

Ten gas cylinders were removed as a precaution

Evening Standard

Rubbish revelations: collectors combine recycling and garbage in some Sydney streets

Canterbury-Bankstown mayor says bin mixing due to ‘problematic locations’, sparking wider reflection on Australia’s waste system

The Guardian - AU

Los Angeles could soon put recycled water directly in your tap. It’s not ‘toilet to tap’

LOS ANGELES —Water has always been recycled. The water molecules in your shower or cup of coffee might just be the same molecules that rained on dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago.

Los Angeles Times

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West Bengal: NKDA starts waste water recycling scheme in New Town

KOLKATA: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has kicked off a pilot scheme to treat and recycle waste water for watering plants in parks, gardens, road dividers, and medians in New Town.

The Times of India

‘We haven’t been given the money to get it right’: why so much of the UK is rubbish at recycling

Despite our commitment to sustainable living, domestic recycling is getting worse. Who – or what – is to blame?

The Guardian - UK

Road built with 100% recycled plastic waste between Ecoworld and Outer Ring Road

The road has been constructed using what is touted as a first-of-its-kind solution by PotHoleRaja called GridMats

The Hindu

'Exporting discarded plastic waste betrays Brits who sort waste for recycling'

The exporting of discarded plastic betrays the millions of people who diligently sort waste for recycling, expecting it to be reused to ease the burden on the planet

Daily Mirror

Tons of plastic waste put in UK recycling bins illegally dumped and burnt in Turkey

Daily Mirror Environment Editor Nada Farhoud discovered the scale of our environmental shame in Adana, Turkey, where dozens of items of British packaging were found among the debris of a rubbish tip

Daily Mirror

Brands are leaning on 'recycled' clothes to meet sustainability goals. How are they made? And why is recycling them further so hard?

Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than human need. Over the past decade, the term “circular economy” has entered the fashion industry lexicon, wherein materials are made to be reused and recycled by design.

The Conversation

India ranks 4th in global gold recycling; recycled 75 tonnes in 2021: WGC

MUMBAI: India has emerged as the fourth largest recycler in the world and the country has recycled 75 tonnes in 2021, according to a World Gold Council (WGC) report.

The Times of India

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Marie Claire

Fashions' Guide to Easily Upcycling and Recycling Clothes

These are the best brands championing sustainability with resale and buyback programs.

The Conversation

Whales and dolphins found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the first time

Scientific research doesn’t usually mean being strapped in a harness by the open paratroop doors of a Vietnam-war-era Hercules plane. But that’s the situation I found myself in several years ago, the result of which has just been published in the journal Marine Biodiversity.

Newcastle Herald

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France - so what can we do about?

Preventing plastic from entering the ocean is most important, academic says.

The Independent UK

Plastic waste swamping UK rivers, with one waterway more polluted than Great Pacific Garbage Patch, report says

All 13 rivers tested found to have waste microplastics floating through them

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The Guardian - AU

Australians mistakenly throwing soft plastics into recycling bins, survey finds

Councils say residents also erroneously putting recyclable waste into plastic bags before disposing of them

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