Recycling

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 …

An Oregon man who accidentally threw $23,000 into a recycling bin was reunited with his money after the cash was spotted at a recycling facility in Northern California. The man from Ashland, Oregon, had realized he put the shoe box full of money into his r…

It is, evidently, not a nice job. But you do get to be alone, if that's your thing, with The Inventory, boxing things all day. This eBay seller gets into the nitty gritty of how he sources and sells individual items and it's surprisingly interesting how much …

There are about 22,000 large objects orbiting the Earth, including working and broken satellites and bits of old rocket from past space expeditions. If you include all the equipment dropped by astronauts while floating in space and the debris from colliding s…