Recycling

There’s a hot new premium Icelandic water brand to rival Poland Spring, Evian, Arrowhead, Aquafina, and even Icelandic Glacial spring water. It’s called Kranavatn.Like its rivals, Kranavatn is pure springwater that has been naturally filtered through lava for…

A school in India’s northeastern Assam state is now requiring students to pay for tuition in plastic waste they collect. Each of the 110 students at the Akshar Forum school must bring 20 plastic items to school a week in order to attend, according to Agence …

We all want to do the right thing when it comes to recycling. After all, it makes us feel good to know were diverting materials from the already-overflowing landfills. But sometimes we inadvertently cause more problems than we solve when we toss items into re…

Beloved by thrill-seeking children and sugar-rotten adults alike, Coca-Colas has had a vice-like grip on the worlds tastebuds for over a century now. And lets be honest – as far as a taste of unbridled capitalism goes, a cold, fizzy, refreshing Coca-Cola is …

The cryptocurrency and blockchain industry has thrown out its fair share of zany ideas over the last few years. But a group of designers is taking wild blockchain concepts to new heights with their plans for a cryptocurrency mining facility hidden in a skyscr…

Roman Yudakov points in the distance to a stinking mountain of trash looming over the Russian capital and sighs: "Take a look at our pyramid!" The rubbish towers above the Timokhovo dump outside Moscow, one of the biggest in Europe. Authorities plan to build…

Image copyrightGetty Images A director of UK energy firm Ineos has described a campaign by TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall about plastic on Scottish beaches as "pretty pathetic". Tom Crotty said the chef had taken a simplistic view on plastic in his BBC…

SUBIC, Philippines (Reuters) - The Philippines has started returning dozens of shipping containers full of trash to Canada after a long-running row over waste exports that has tested diplomatic ties amid threats from firebrand President Rodrigo Duterte. The…

PASIR GUDANG, Malaysia/JOKHABAD, India (Reuters) - When local investigators scoured a riverbed in southern Malaysia for clues in a chemical dumping case that hospitalized over one thousand people earlier this year, they found a cocktail of toxins, including a…

AirPods don’t exactly have a reputation for standing the test of time. Many who bought a pair back when they launched in December 2016 have probably experienced this by now, most often in a wasting battery (not to mention horrid earwax buildup in the case!). …