Recycling

Stepping into most any store and scanning the shelves of products, all packaged for consumption and destined for recycling or the dumps, makes you feel like a truly sustainable world is a daunting, if not impossible, prospect. But the Mediated Matter Group at…

A new study documents dangerous lead in the baby teeth of 100% of babies and children tested downwind of a now closed battery smelter in southeastern Los Angeles.  (Photo: Yahoo) Most people don't give a thought to what happens to their old car, boat or gol…

At sites in more than 1,500 of Japans municipalities and about 2,400 NTT Docomo electronics stores, over 47,000 tons of discarded electronics were collected, including more than five million cellphones, according to Masa Takaya, a spokesman for the Tokyo 2020…

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If an item in a bin of recyclable materials is greasy, covered in food or, in the case of paper goods, soaking wet, the entire bin is typically rejected and sent to the landfill or incinerated... While we want to do the right thing, most of us don't know all…

Let's get all delusions out of the way: "Don't be obsessed with your desires... A flute with no holes is not a flute. A donut with no hole is a Danish," the immortal Ty Webb once mused, and he had a point. An espresso pod machine is not an espresso…

With the increasing electrification of Volkswagen's fleet, the company has come up with a plan to deal with EV batteries at the end of their lifecycle. Volkswagen says its ID.3 factory can crank out 330,000 cars per year. Instead of merely recycling them, VW …

Laure Cucuron, Managing Director of specialist recycling firm TerraCycle, took to one of the coziest stages on the first day of TNW2019 the Future Generations track to tell listeners how companies are thinking about recycling in all the wrong ways. Recycling …

For 15 years, the manufacturer Exide crushed car batteries into small pieces at a recycling plant in Vernon, California, a city south of downtown Los Angeles. From there, the company sifted for lead — a neurotoxin that's often used in battery manufacturing, b…