Recycling

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!). …

Solar energy has the potential to play a central role in the future global energy system because of the scale of the solar resource, its predictability, and its ubiquitous nature. Global installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity exceeded 500 GW at the end of…

We, humans, do love our plastic. From our morning yogurt to our evening takeout, all this plastic feels impossible to avoid. The thing is, well, this plastic needs to go somewhere. Malaysia, a major plastics importer, is one of those somewheres. But now, the …