Recycling

New research has highlighted the value of recycling general anaesthetic used in routine operations. In the UK, healthcare accounts for more than five per cent of national greenhouse gas emissions, and as much as 10 per cent in the US. Inhaled general anaesthetics are particularly potent greenhouse gases and as…

MADRID — Something seemed wrong to the guard inspecting sealed bags of toxic ash in the port of Melilla, one of Spain’s two small territories in North Africa. MADRID — Something seemed wrong to the guard inspecting sealed bags of toxic ash in the port of Melilla, one of Spain’s…

Trash collectors handle all kinds of discarded containers every day—it’s quite literally their job. But it isn’t every day a garbageman finds a bag with someone in it, particularly someone who ends up becoming a brand-new family member. That’s exactly what happened when Aaron Kinsel, a driver for Rumpke Waste &…

Dr Andrew Turner. Credit: University of Plymouth Some of the planet's rarest metals—used in the manufacture of smartphones and other electrical equipment—are increasingly being found in everyday consumer plastics, according to new research. Scientists from the University of Plymouth and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tested a range of new…

I can forgive Bruce for recycling footage and clothes from his Western Stars movie in that Super Bowl commercial (pulled by Jeep in the wake of a DUI). I’ll give him a pass for the faux accent which no one in New Jersey, or maybe anywhere on earth, actually sounds…

Some time in October last year, a batch of commercial compost left a Suez recycling facility in Melbourne, bound for garden centres in central Victoria and Melbourne. Key points:More than 200 Victorian gardeners noticed they lost vegetable crops after compostingThey claim commercial compost from a Suez recycling facility is the…

By Augustine Okezie, Katsina Northern-based organization: Arewa Youths Initiative for Peace and Good Leadership, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to consider during appointments, young talented Nigerians and grant them opportunities to serve their fatherland, instead of what they termed ’’recycling of old hands ‘’when making crucial appointments. The President…

Mumbai: Skoda Auto Volkswagen India, the domestic unit of the VW Group, has achieved certification for being net water positive from DQS India achieving a water conservation ratio of 1.05, meaning it replenishes 105 litres of water for every 100 litres it uses. Both of the company’s plants in India…

Bill Maher has (almost) never found a famous man accused of misconduct that he hasn’t wanted to defend. The late-night comic, who once warned that the #MeToo Movement was creating a “police state” for sex, has defended MSNBC’s Chris Matthews after he was accused of sexual harassment (and mocked his…

Victorian Liberal MP Tim Smith has accused Premier Daniel Andrews of doing a “sweetheart deal” with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after the state intervened to approve a rejected lead battery recycling plant proposed by a Chinese state-owned corporation in the state’s east. The proposed Hazelwood North facility in Gippsland…