Recycling

Exclusive Transport for London's online Oyster travel smartcard system has been accessed by miscreants using customer credentials, The Reg can reveal, as the transport authority keeps the website offline for a second day. Some Oyster customers have had their…

Apple has activated a dormant software lock that effectively kneecaps third-party replacement batteries on some newer models of iPhone, according to a report from iFixIt on Wednesday, by disabling access to battery health data unless the replacement has been …

Right to Repair advocates continue to lobby the U.S. government, arguing that large tech companies like Apple are monopolizing repairs of consumer electronics in order to preserve profits, reports Axios. Image: iFixit.com In testimony before the U.S. House …

A man in Almeria, Spain, disposed of an old fridge by throwing it down a steep incline. Thinking it amusing, he had video recorded of the act and posted to social media. It went viral, the authorities found out about it, and he has now been fined—and ordered …

Evidence of the increasing effects of climate change is building, as are the investing opportunities and changes in consumer habits linked to environmental concerns and resource use.Here, select dispatches about the companies responding to customer demands an…

Media captionPolice referred to the incident as "environmental crime" Police have forced a man to retrieve a fridge he threw down a ravine near the southern Spanish city of Almeria. A tweet posted by the Guardia Civil shows the unidentified man hauling the…

As part of its efforts to integrate sustainability into its products, Google has pledged to include recycled materials in all its hardware products, including Pixel smartphones, starting 2022. By 2020, the company has announced that all shipments "going to or…

Nissan's oldest Leaf models are getting close to a decade old, and that could mean that their batteries are reaching the end of their life. Roadshow One of the problems with current battery technology is that the cells that make up a pack have a finite life…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) California's largest operator of recycling redemption centers shut down Monday and laid off 750 employees. RePlanet closed all 284 of its centers, and company president David Lawrence said the decision was driven by increased business c…

Back in 2011, I bought a new countertop made from "Curface," a composite material made from a mix of melted down used coffee cups and coffee grounds; we still have it and it's wearing beautifully -- you can treat it like solid wood, sanding off imperfections …