Recycling

A proposal to make better use of fallen leaves and dead trees in urban areas in the US could cut carbon emissions, though it may not be practical Environment 9 August 2022 By Christa Lesté-Lasserre Waste trees could be a valuable resource ThamKC/Shutterstock Using fallen leaves, branches and dead trees…

Recycling in the ACT will soon get a major tech upgrade with the construction of a state-of-the-art sorting facility at Hume. The federal government has delivered on a funding agreement signed with states and territories in 2020, with a combined $23 million going towards a new Materials Recovery Facility adjacent…

Zoltan Acs/Shutterstock Despite not being a popular option with environmental organizations like Greenpeace, nuclear power has often been praised as a solution to several nations' energy problems. French energy giant EDF touts nuclear power as one of the most low-carbon forms of energy generation available. The uranium required to generate…

Fire has gutted several homes in the Kronum-Cement-Mu suburb of the Afigya Kwabre South District in the Ashanti region. Residents claim the fire started at a plastic waste recycling factory. It started around 2:00pm on Saturday and extended to at least 6 homes, destroying more than 50 apartments. An 18-year-old…

Your browser does not support the audio element. Ruicycle (also known as Hengchuang Ruineng), a battery recycling enterprise, completed a B round of financing of over 300 million yuan ($44.42 million) on August 1. Investors include Legend Capital, China Guangfa Bank, Hua Ventures, Hanhui Investment Management and other institutions. Established…

Seven industrial sectors in China have been assigned targets to cut energy consumption and boost recycling to reach peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030...Read More

New Zealand’s recycling culture is considered advanced compared with most markets within the Asia Pacific region, and has quite a few ongoing recycling schemes in the country – but these are not standardised and have been described by many in and out of the food and beverage industry as more…

Journalists test drive the Nissan Ariya in Stockholm. Nissan/Sebastien Mauroy “Almost all of the batteries we’ve ever made are still in cars,” said Nissan executive Nic Thomas. “And we’ve been selling electric cars for 12 years,” he added. The worry was once what the world would do with millions of…

Your browser does not support the audio element. On July 28, four Chinese companies, including battery firms Gotion High-Tech and Ningbo Shanshan, electronic waste recycling firm GEM, and building materials machinery manufacturer Keda Industrial were officially listed to the SIX Swiss Exchange. Gotion High-Tech, which was listed on the Shenzhen…

Australia’s chief recycling body has urged residents across the country to continue to sort their general rubbish from recycling amid outrage over shocking footage of Sydney council workers mixing waste in the same truck. Locals in the city’s southwest took to social media to express their frustration over revelations the…