Recycling

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…

Part of the Recyc Leather recycling process | Photo source Recyc Leather™ Innovation Manufacturing Recycled leather retains the appearance and feel of the original Manufacturing Recyc Leather™ uses smart recycling on natural leather fibres, to create a material that is highly durable and retains the properties of traditional leather Spotted:…

View Slideshow For the Hôtel Métropole exhibition at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Parisian design collective ciguë recently showcased “Une chambre pour demain” (A Room for Tomorrow), an experimental redesign of a hotel room that champions water recycling. Created as a reaction against the amount of unseen excess and waste in…

It’s easy not to think of what happens to our waste once we put it in the trash. From used clothing to uneaten food, humanity’s disconnection from the systems that allow it to function in its current uninterrupted state has created an out of sight, out of mind mentality. That’s probably why we’re…

Help! We have this TROFAST step unit and we need ideas. While redoing our son’s bedroom we see we no longer need the unit in there. TROFAST storage combination with boxes | IKEA.com We would like to repurpose the TROFAST somehow, but when we search for ideas we only see…