Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

British supermarket chain Waitrose & Partners has joined Polytag’s Ecotrace scheme, an industry-led initiative aimed at transforming the tracking and recycling of plastic packaging in the UK. The ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

Plastic Water Bottle Floating in Pacific Ocean, Santa Monica, California, USA (Photo by: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) More than 20 chief executives ...

Jaipur: Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma said Thursday the Circular Economy Incentive Scheme, 2025, is a pivotal policy to ...

The municipal solid waste disposed of at landfills dropped for three consecutive years to 3.85 million tonnes in 2024, and the average daily quantity was 10,510 tonnes, a 3.4% decrease compared to ...

Children play in a pile of scrap plastic in a village in East Java, Indonesia, while their mother nearby spends the day picking through it for tiny pieces of cardboard to sell back to the paper mill.

The collection center in Jakarta is capable of processing 8-10 tons of plastic waste per day with waste banks as the main ...

Single-use plastics (SUPs) are a major concern in countries such as the Philippines due to SUPs’ extensive use and ...

Deepika Mathur has received research funding from the Northern Territory and federal governments. Australia’s rooftop solar industry has renewed calls for a mandatory recycling scheme to deal with the ...