Two designers at London Fashion Week say their clothes made from plastic bottles and sustainable wool have a political message ... READ MORE›
Recycling businesses in China say a shortage of raw materials, caused by a recently enacted foreign waste ban, will spur the country's domestic waste..... READ MORE›
Gloucestershire is building a big bonfire of waste. To last for eternity... READ MORE›
China has banned the imports of 24 kinds of solid waste... READ MORE›
A border guard in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, inpects bundles of waste textiles smuggled into China... READ MORE›
Instead most of his takeaway customers are served in normal disposable cups... READ MORE›
There have been many stories in US news media lately about how China's ban on foreign waste has caused recycling chaos in their country... READ MORE›
In 2016, China imported 7.3m tonnes of waste plastics from developed countries including the UK, the US and Japan... READ MORE›
Greenpeace said the big six drinks companies had to do more to increase the recycled content of their plastic bottles... READ MORE›
Plans are currently in place to produce Borough Market refillable bottles made from recycled plastic that can be purchased from stalls around the market... READ MORE›
Coca-Cola increased its production of throwaway plastic bottles last year by well over a billion, according to analysis by Greenpeace... READ MORE›
In England, just 57 percent of plastic bottles are recycled, mostly through streetside collection schemes... READ MORE›
Walmart food waste caught on camera 'They just toss it freely,' says former worker... READ MORE›
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Refuse collector Kevin McGill had only been on the route in Silver Springs, one the the US' richest suburbs, for three months... READ MORE›
About 400 plastic bottles are sold every second in the UK but only half are recycled... READ MORE›
Chinese restrictions from January will hit UK recycling efforts and risk plastic waste being stockpiled or ending up in landfill, warn industry leaders... READ MORE›
Just 57 percent of all plastic bottles are collected for recycling, compared with levels of up to 90 percent in countries that have deposit return schemes... READ MORE›
Koshe is the largest rubbish dump in Ethiopia and home to hundreds of people who collect and resell rubbish trucked in from around Addis Ababa... READ MORE›
Some had consumed so much waste that they regularly excreted scraps of balloons or slivers of plastic bags... READ MORE›
In the UK particularly there is a shortage of post consumer plastic to turn into recycled plastic for bottles because the collection systems are so poor... READ MORE›
A 13-year-old boy and two girls aged 14 and 15 were among the dead, said Pushpa Soysa, head nurse at the main Colombo hospital... READ MORE›
A UK shale gas company is considering dumping waste water from fracking in the sea, emails from the company show... READ MORE›
In Lagos, for all the horrors involving waste management, trash is still seen as an enormous economic opportunity... READ MORE›
The landfill has been a dumping ground for Addis Ababa's garbage for more than 50 years... READ MORE›
Sri Lanka's parliament was warned recently that the 23 million tonnes of garbage rotting at Kolonnawa was a serious health hazard... READ MORE›
Monsanto, BP and Veolia agree to pay for cleanup of contaminated Welsh site... READ MORE›
How geography, climate change and politics contributed to Sierra Leone's latest disaster... READ MORE›
There's very little thought of the environmental impact of plastic bottles in China... READ MORE›
It was not immediately clear what caused the landslide at the Koshe Garbage Landfill, which buried several makeshift homes and concrete buildings... READ MORE›
Newham borough in London had the lowest recycling rate in England, at 15 percent, while South Oxfordshire district council had the highest, at 67 percent ... READ MORE›
Nearly three-quarters 73 percent said they would welcome more transparency about what happens to their waste, according to the survey of 1,500 adults, by waste management company Viridor... READ MORE›
Most people recognise a plastic bottle as something you can recycle, said Steve Morgan, technical manager at plastic recycling charity Recoup... READ MORE›
According to the atlas, compiled by teams of academics and waste professionals on four continents, the 50 sites are all pollution and health timebombs... READ MORE›
Sri Lanka Garbage Dump Collapse Kills at Least 19... READ MORE›
Scavengers as young as eight-years old eek out a living in unimaginable conditions at the Tibar landfill near Dili... READ MORE›
About 187 million tonnes of plastic waste is dumped into the country's waters, placing Indonesia... READ MORE›
Under the strategy, those convicted of fly-tipping and given community service would be forced to help councils clear up fly-tipped waste... READ MORE›
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