Recycling

By Keiron Philip Roberts, Research Fellow, University of Portsmouth Anne Stringfellow, Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton, and Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton. Originally published at The Conversation Coronavirus has revealed just how fragile our waste cycle is.Globally, collection services are being reduced because of…

What if the “great ocean garbage patches” were just the tip of the iceberg? While more than ten million tonnes of plastic waste enters the sea each year, we actually see just 1% of it – the portion that floats on the ocean surface. What happens to the missing 99%…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Analysis by Professor Ian Williams and Anne Stringfellow from the University of Southampton and Keiron Roberts from the University of Portsmouth has highlighted the enormous impact of the COVID19 lockdown measures on waste management in the UK. Their analysis shows that with almost all household waste…

Photo: GettyThe coronavirus caused Lauren Singer to do something she hasn’t done in eight years: she created waste. Singer is one of the activists most associated with the waste-free movement. She first went viral in 2014 when her annual direct trash production was so small, it fit in a single…

by: Harley Tamplin Posted: Apr 29, 2020 / 05:44 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 29, 2020 / 05:44 PM CDT AUSTIN (KXAN) — Terra Helmets and LoFi Recycling Systems have been named the winners of the City of Austin’s annual Reverse Pitch competition. Both projects will be awarded $10,000 to…

The Pompeii ruins continue to reveal fascinating information from ancient history, and this time researchers found that Romans organized and recycled garbage. Scientists initially believed large piles of plaster and ceramic found outside the city walls were the result of an earthquake that occurred years before Mount Vesuvius erupted in…

Ptolemy studied at Bradford in the 80’s, travelled extensively and settled in Brighton, UK. He specialises in animals, insects and marine life sculptures made from recycled materials including car wheel trims, shopping trolleys, car parts and found objects. He’s spent the last 17 years recycling them into beautiful and elegant…

Ministers have begun circulating plans for life after the coronavirus lockdown, including requiring shoppers and commuters to wear cloth masks and radically rethinking how public transport operates in order to keep travellers two metres apart at all times.  The Telegraph has learnt that garden centres could reopen within a fortnight…

At Fashinnovation's biannual Worldwide Talks, the industry reckons with its sustainability problem.The two-day conference, held on April 20 and April 21, featured a slew of notable speakers, including fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, Birchbox CEO Katia Beauchamp, and conservationist Susan Rockefeller.But fashion may not be able to implement its sustainability…

AbstractRetreating subduction zones such as the Lesser Antilles, Gibraltar and Scotia have been migrating towards the Atlantic Ocean by cutting their way through the oceanic crust. This spontaneously retreating subduction is enabled by the development of faults at the edges of the slab, but the physical mechanisms controlling fault propagation…