Recycling

By Sean Oliver, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterShootin' the Breeze Wed., March 3, 2021timer3 min. read Most of us are familiar with the three Rs associated with limiting our waste: reduce, reuse and recycle. As it turns out, there’s a fourth R: renew the recycling licence. During the Feb. 22 regular…

Britain's government is mulling a proposal from the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) that would force online retailers to collect old electronics from customers for recycling. Although this would theoretically limit the amount of old kit sent to landfill, and thus the amount of raw materials that need to be…

The amount of electrical waste recycled at local authority centres increased by 10 per cent last year, the equivalent of half a million small appliances, a waste management organisation has said. However, WEEE Ireland, the country’s largest e-waste recycling scheme, fears this progress could be lost as there has been…

CE visits Lai Chi Wo and inspects recycling facilities in various districts in New Territories (with photos/video) ******************************************************************************************      The Chief Executive, Mrs Carrie Lam, went to Lai Chi Wo this morning (February 27) to learn more about the work of the Countryside Conservation Office (CCO) under the Environmental Protection Department…

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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…