Official recycling rates in Russia stand at close to zero, writes Minna Halme. But my study of the potential to develop the sector uncovered widespread informal recycling networks, lurking in basements, stigmatised for supposed links to organised crime, barely tolerated by the authorities. And any ideas of legitimising the shadowy recycling operations are met with frosty official silence.
… 'Recycling is for drunks, addicts and … University | 8th February 2016 Comment Waste Recycling Russia Society bottles-cut.jpg Official recycling rates in Russia stand at close to …
Local authorities are sending recycling waste to be incinerated rather than properly sorted.
… Where does our recycling go? Jenny Jones | 6th February 2020 News Recycling Waste Rubbish Incineration Hackney … Local authorities are sending recycling waste to be incinerated rather than …
Grace Lee has just spent a month in Seoul, South Korea working as an intern for the Resource Recirculation Management Division under the Climate Change and Environment Bureau of Seoul City Hall. Here’s what she has to say to her fellow US citizens about their domestic waste…
… Why Aren’t My Fellow Americans Doing More Recycling? Grace Lee | 27th July 2012 Comment Recycling Seoul USA South Korea Waste And Recycling Society Green Plastic Waste Rubbish …
Britain's trade in waste plastic to the Far East is booming. But it's not good news. The exported plastic is meant to be recycled under UK conditions and standards, but often is not, undermining bona fide UK recycling firms who face falling prices, reduced turnover, collapsing profits, and all too often, closure.
… | 13th March 2017 News Waste Pollution Recycling UK Indonesia Vietnam Malaysia … but often is not, undermining bona fide UK recycling firms who face falling prices, … of its plastic packaging waste abroad for recycling in 2016 than in any of the three …
Throwing all your recycling in one box may seem like a good idea, but it is threatening the future of European-based paper recycling, according to a leading industry source.
… 'One-box' recycling doing more harm than good 7th August 2007 News Paper Recycling Pulping INGEDED Recycle Waste Recycling Waste And Recycling News web pic …
Mel Poluck visits a flagship environmental project that rescues, reuses and recycles tonnes of wood destined for landfills, doing much the same for those it employs
… CASE STUDY: recycling waste wood Mel Poluck | 9th June 2009 Activism Waste And Recycling Case Study Wood Recycling Salvage Waste Landfill …
Producers will pay the full cost of disposal and recycling of packaging, recycling collections will be made consistent and a deposit return scheme for drinks containers will be introduced.
… Waste and recycling system set for shake up Catherine … Early | 20th December 2018 News Waste Recycling Plastic Packaging Deposit Return … will pay the full cost of disposal and recycling of packaging, recycling collections …
Public authorities implement new waste management models that are capital-intensive and technology-driven at the cost of more socio-ecologically sustainable alternatives provided by waste pickers.
… environmental sustainability . The informal recycling sector in the Global South sustains … extend the life of items cast aside. Their recycling rates are typically high , in the … Africa waste pickers do 90 percent of all recycling. In some countries, they are …
From turning old clothes into bags to making plastic cups into fabulous pencils, spring-cleaning just got lucrative
… How to… make recycling pay Bethany Hubbard | 30th March 2012 Ethical Living Home Recycling Upcycling Green Plastic Waste … got lucrative In the past 10 years household recycling in England has more than tripled, …
If you live a green life, you'll also want a green death, writes Robert John Young. Sadly pollution, energy use and methane emissions mean there's no completely green way to dispose of your body. The good news is that a new 'fast composting' technique ticks all the boxes - but it's still under development.
… | 8th February 2015 Ethical Living Waste Recycling sky-burial-china-cut.jpg If you live … be allowed? As a conservationist the idea of recycling my body after death appeals: some … the body and burials can take years for the recycling process to occur. Thus, if my body …
Attempts to recycle E-waste and donations of old electronic devices are harming poor people's health and devastating the environment, writes Nele Goutier. Agbogbloshie, once an idyllic landscape of wetlands and small farms, is now the most toxic place in the world ...
… their final destination under the cloak of recycling. It is the most toxic place in the … The 13% of E-waste that does end up in the recycling process, according to the … unrealistic. After all, environmentally-sound recycling in industrialized countries is up to …
Gift ideas from businesses channelling their creativity into waste reduction methods.
… Traidcraft Arts And Crafts Waste Waste And Recycling Gift Ideas … initiatives have been introduced to encourage recycling, but most of our waste continues to … in the importance of environmentalism and recycling, and supports schools with building …
As UK supermarkets scramble to reduce packaging in the face of growing legislation and consumer demand, Aimee Steen talks exclusively to those tackling the problem at high street stores and asks what role customers have to play
… News Packaging Waste Tesco Asda M&S Waste And Recycling Investigations waste 2 resized.jpg … every five years, in relation to both recycling and recovery. According to the … How to campaign for less waste and more recycling From plastic bag-free towns to …
When it comes to reusable packaging and the environment, consumers are keen to do the right thing, but it seems sparking a refill revolution in Great Britain means getting the price right first
… Green Living Food And Drink Take Action Waste Recycling Denmark Finland Netherlands … means getting the price right first With recycling, as with so many other green … ’. Included in the 83-page strategy for recycling, packaging reduction and reusability …
Forty years ago this month, Robert Allen prescribed some methods for the individual to cut down on their waste. Have we heeded this advice and is it still relevant today?
… Years Ago 1971 Waste Advice Public Individual Recycling august 1971 480 x 360.jpg Forty … Scanning through the list, Allen advises recycling, keeping a compost heap, not buying … Big business has seen the economic benefit of recycling, while governments and councils have …
Environment Secretary David Miliband's proposed reforms to the British waste collection system have caused no end of bitter debate. But would the public be more welcoming if the Secretary of State took a leaf out of Ireland's book?
… eyes are smiling 30th May 2007 News Waste Recycling Irish Ireland Miliband Bins Rubbish Recycling Landfills Politics And Economics Waste And Recycling News web pic 2_57.jpg Environment …
Last week's 'War on Waste' - throwaway coffee cups were the deserving target - was an exemplar of effective single-issue campaigning by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. But the answers to our waste problems go way beyond recycling. We must begin to plan a societal transition to a post-consumer culture of caring, sharing, and knowing when we have enough.
… | 3rd August 2016 Comment Waste Consumerism Recycling Economics Green Economy Society UK … answers to our waste problems go way beyond recycling. We must begin to plan a societal … of potential resources, hidden from use. Recycling is perhaps the most commonly …
Plastic waste, often burning, is a constant companion in Gambia, a poor country where few enjoy formal rubbish collection, writes Louise Hunt. Now a pioneering project to upcycle waste plastic is beginning to tackle the problem - and in the process enhancing women's social and economic status.
… Gambia - recycling for women's wealth and independence … They are apprentices of a community recycling project that is believed to be the … to disseminate the benefits of re-using and recycling waste. It is currently working with …
Interface's sustainability model shows how large industrial companies can slash their carbon emissions and other environmental impacts without compromising profitability, reports Sophie Morlin-Yron. The key is to aim high!
… 2014 Comment Corporations Green Economy Waste Recycling Energy fishing-net-cut.jpg … Sustainable Business Award for Waste & Recycling in 2011, and The Environment Agency … it's the yarn, which is made of nylon. Recycling nylon used to be 'impossible' The …
A private member's bill that would see supermarkets and other retailers forced to take responsibility for the packaging on their goods has been debated in the Commons.
… Supermarkets Retail Retailers Waste Packaging Recycling Food And Farming Society A private … debated in the Commons. The Retail Packaging Recycling Bill, sponsored by Liberal Democrat … to which customers could return packaging for recycling. But the bill has provoked a …
How can we reduce our ever increasing throughput of raw materials? By breaking out the the 'iron cage of consumerism', writes Mariale Moreno: make things to last - whether clothes, houses, cars, or washing machines. Join a car club. Share domestic appliances with neighbors. And bring back the laundromat!
… Recycling is not enough! Sharing is the way to … Living Green Economy Consumerism Waste Recycling laundromat-cut.jpg How can we reduce … have to target what consumers really want. Recycling has thus far been the main focus of …
A Greenpeace investigation has exposed the massive efforts of global food and drink giant Coca Cola to defeat popular proposals to require deposits on single-use plastic bottles, writes Maeve McClenaghan. In fact, deposit schemes are working fine in many countries in which the company operates - it's a simple case of corporate profit before environment, oceans and wildlife.
… plans to reduce littering and increase recycling." 16 million plastic bottles going … Coca Cola is part of industry group Packaging Recycling Group Scotland (PRGS). In January … people; damage business and existing recycling and anti-littering initiatives ... …
Viewed in new light, waste is a resource – to be used again, recycled or resurrected for another use
… The Ecologist | 19th June 2009 Activism Waste Recycling Cradle To Cradle Design Nearly Out … and encourage waste reduction, reuse and recycling’. Through research, monitoring, …