Recycling

The ties between company culture and financial performance are clearer than ever. But according to one company culture expert, only recently have leaders realized their cultures need work. Companies with strong cultures see four times the revenue growth of their peers. Yet a separate study found just 15 percent of business…

Lithium-ion batteries are expected to play a critical role in the green energy transition, but despite surging global demand for the metals that go into them, we’re doing a terrible job recovering those metals after batteries die. A first-of-its-kind bill introduced in the Senate this month seeks to change that…

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Photo: Julia Ewan/Getty ImagesEven for fashion and beauty lovers who think sustainability is important, wading through all the sometimes-conflicting information about it can be tricky. To combat the confusion, we're asking scientists, researchers and other authorities to answer all your most pressing questions in our column Ask a Sustainability Expert.Dear…

Getty Images Consumers in the European Union will have an automatic right to have their devices repaired rather than throw them away under a new initiative unveiled by the European Commission today. The Circular Economy Action Plan, designed to end the ‘throw-away society’ and encourage reuse and recycling, contains provisions…

The European Commission has set out a plan to move towards a ‘right to repair’ for electronics devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops. More generally it wants to restrict single-use products, tackle “premature obsolescence” and ban the destruction of unsold durable goods — in order to make sustainable…

Tame Impala have announced a partnership with the nonprofit REVERB to reduce environmental waste while on tour behind their latest album The Slow Rush. The collaboration will include Eco-Villages at every stop, where fans can learn more about environmental nonprofits, join REVERB’s unCHANGEit campaign in collaboration with Defend Our Future,…

Wind turbine blades can be truly enormous, reaching lengths of up to 107 m (351 ft). They often incorporate lightweight balsa wood, which may soon be easier than ever to reclaim for recycling when the blades' time is done.According to Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, turbine blades consist chiefly…

Disk-wiping utility was meant to be a force for good, not evil Who, Me? Welcome to another leap back to the shooters of the '90s, and how to deal with them, in The Register's regular Who, Me? feature. Today's story comes from the southern hemisphere, and a brave soul working…

Companies in the U.S. natural gas industry have begun to scale up a program to sell methane that’s recycled from sources like hog-feeding farms and sewage plants as a replacement for natural gas drawn from wells. It offers an opportunity to reduce a potent greenhouse gas while creating a source…