Recycling

GAP Group North East strengthens its nationwide network with a new Yorkshire facility, bringing faster, more accessible electrical recycling services to customers across Yorkshire, the Midlands, and the South of England and Wales. GAP Group North East, a nationwide, fully accredited electrical recycling and resource recovery provider, today announced the…

Household waste and recycling centres will close early during the peak of the record-breaking heatwave. The Met Office has issued a red weather warning for Wednesday June 24 until Thursday June 25, which covers most of England, including Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire Household Waste and Recycling Centres will open at 8am but…

Mai attributes this trend to both commercial and technical factors. On the commercial side, developers are upgrading sites with higher-efficiency modules and battery storage systems to maximise constrained land and grid connections.  “You build the same capacity and power, but you need less land, and then you can install some batteries as well,” he explains.  At the same…

Home Fossil Energy BP entrusts subsea decom and recycling job at UK field to DeepOcean June 18, 2026, by Melisa Cavcic Norwegian ocean services provider DeepOcean has been hired by the UK-headquartered energy giant BP to lend a hand in the decommissioning and recycling of subsea equipment from a site…

In the first quarter of 2025, China’s combined installed capacity of solar PV (946GW) and wind power (536GW) surpassed thermal power capacity for the first time, marking a major milestone in the country’s energy transition and signalling what is likely to become a long-term structural trend. By the end of March 2026, China’s cumulative installed PV capacity had further increased to approximately 1.24TW. Under carbon-neutral development scenarios,…

Eloisa Cartonera books, made by unhoused workers. While the project was born in Argentina, it has expanded to other Latin American countries, like Perú, Ecuador, Chile and Colombia. (Creative Commons) This story is part of Global Voices’ May 2026 Spotlight series, “Global crisis, local solutions.” You can support this coverage by…

Primary schools across Ireland have been recognised for going ‘above and beyond’ with innovative recycling projects at the inaugural Re-turn Awards. More than 300 schools entered the awards, which celebrate creative, sustainable and community-driven use of the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). At a special awards ceremony hosted by Today FM…

Cornell researchers have developed a recycling process that restores spent lithium-ion cells to 95% of their original capacity while cutting recycling costs by more than half. Unsplash Your next phone or EV could run on a recycled battery that performs nearly as well as a new one. Cornell University researchers…

Permanent Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Environment) attends Environment Day cum Recycling Day Launching Ceremony (with photos) ******************************************************************************************      The Permanent Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Environment), Mr Eddie Cheung, today (June 7) officiated at the Environment Day cum Recycling Day Launching Ceremony. Officiating guests included the Deputy Director-General of the…

Photo Credit: Mick Haupt IMPALA has unveiled a collaboration with FÉLIN’s ReDisco, a vinyl recycling initiative that’s said to have “given a second life to 1.2 million unwanted records” since launching three years ago. France’s National Federation of Independent Labels and Distributors (FÉLIN) established ReDisco in 2023, after a law…