Recycling

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…

TL;DR Swiss cleantech GR3N raised €15.5M to build a microwave-assisted PET recycling plant in Spain. It handles the 85% of PET waste that current methods can’t. Swiss cleantech startup GR3N has raised €15.5 million in a Series B round to build the world’s first commercial-scale microwave-assisted PET recycling plant. The…

“Solar recycling has to be dealt with today, for the solar panels being installed now,” Dunlop emphasises, in response to questions from PV Tech Premium. “Due to our nature as a low-cost form of electronics with an extremely long lifespan—sometimes 30+ years—recycling has to be paid for at the point…