Recycling

Juan Rivero is the co-founder of the "Plasticoin" project that aims to encourage plastic recycling in Uruguay On a hot summer's day in southern Uruguay, Graciela Martinez weighs her plastic waste before dropping it in a designated container by the beach. In return, she'll receive some virtual money on her…

I want to be a good person. So I like to recycle. But I worry that I am not doing it right. And I worry other people judge me every time I make a mistake with my trash. Plastic is the worst. Is this piece of plastic something I can…

An S-Hub or the sanitation hub, on the lines of popular T-Hub incubator, for promoting start-ups and innovations in water, sanitation, solid waste management and waste water recycling is to be set up by the Telangana government in Hyderabad. Announcing this …

Stakeholders were advised against the dumping of waste in the open.   | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement NGO roped in to help dispose of garbage Shopkeepers and other stakeholders were instructed to stop dumping poultry waste roadside, in waterbodies and open spaces in the district and to use the services…

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Baystate Business: Iowa, Recycling, Tesla (Radio)

The launch of ION service in Waterloo Region was a notable accomplishment from last year.  Regional Chair Karen Redman said it was not a small feat, "that was 20 years of planning and it's one of only four successfully running LRT systems in Canada, we are r…

J Sainsbury PLC said Tuesday that it would commit 1 billion pounds ($1.31 billion) over the next two decades toward the goal of becoming a net-zero emissions business. The U.K. retailer SBRY, +1.26%  said the earmarked funds will be used over the next twenty years with a focus on reducing…

When China stopped taking foreign recyclables two years ago, innovation was needed to deal with the world's plastic problem. Now engineers in Australia say they have developed a technology to reduce plastic that can fit into a room. They say the micro-factory ends the need for waste products to be…