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The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

No rubbish can escape the Grim Sweeper: Devon bin trucks named after competition

Meet The Grim Sweeper, Optimus Grime and friends — North Devon’s new fleet of waste and recycling trucks

Evening Standard

‘Leaking trucks’ and ‘rotten egg gas’: Veolia’s waste project plan has Tarago furious

Residents of the small NSW town do not trust the company to safely operate the waste-capture facility planned for nearby

The Guardian - AU

Lightning strike causes huge explosion at recycling plant in Oxfordshire

The fire occurred at Severn Trent’s Cassington AD facility near Yarnton on Monday

Evening Standard

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Lightning strike causes huge explosion at Oxford recycling plant

Witnesses report large ‘fireball’ in sky at Severn Trent Green Power facility but no one is thought to have been injured in the blast

The Guardian - UK

What can old clothes be made into right now? Puzzles, pillows and plastic pellets

Commercial clothing recycling is still in its infancy in Australia. Here the two major players explain what unwanted clothing can and cannot become

The Guardian - AU

West Chicago in a ‘culture war’ over trash site, garbage-hauler’s lawyer says

“They want to throw us into the culture war. Lakeshore is somehow responsible for oppression of the population.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Call for national strategy to force Australian vaping industry to clean up waste

Lithium-ion batteries embedded in the products have been blamed for an increasing number of hazardous fires at landfill sites

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Calls mount for national solution to toxic vape waste

Australia urgently needs a national strategy to deal with hazardous and toxic waste from vaping products, environmental campaigners say.

AAP

The Week in Detail: Tiny homes, mental health awareness, and Afghan refugees

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Newsroom.co.nz

How British refuse collectors won their strikes and became a model for successful trade unionism

As mountains of rubbish built up in Tower Hamlets and elsewhere, authorities were forced to listen, says Polly Smythe, labour movement correspondent at Novara Media

The Guardian - UK

Welsh town first to trial 10p bottle and can return scheme across community

Hundreds of Brecon households sign up for scheme in which they get money for every container they recycle

The Guardian - UK

A new battery recycling facility will deepen Kentucky's ties to the electric vehicle sector

A recycling facility will be built in Kentucky to shred electric vehicle batteries in a $65 million venture

The Independent UK

Doubts UK Government will set up deposit return scheme by 2025 deadline

THE “onus” is on the UK Government to make a success of the deposit return scheme (DRS) but Scottish ministers are “cynical” that they will…

The National (Scotland)

The next UK net zero battleground is electricity pylons

Plans involve doubling use of such energy but not everybody wants to live near power lines

The Guardian - UK

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The Conversation

Container deposit schemes reduce rubbish on our beaches. Here’s how we proved it

Our beaches are in trouble. Limited recycling programs and a society that throws away so much have resulted in more than 3 million tonnes of plastic polluting the oceans. An estimated 1.5–1.9% of this rubbish ends up on beaches.

Newsroom.co.nz

Recycling the wrong ideas about climate change

Recycling is not the beginning nor end when it comes to climate change. In fact, it comes way down the list of things you can personally do to help save the planet.

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets waste collection strike: When are workers striking and why?

Strike action leads to waste piling high in Brick Lane

The Independent UK

Toymaker Lego to stick to its quest to find sustainable materials despite failed recycle attempt

Denmark’s Lego says it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world’s largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work

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The Guardian - UK

Lego abandons effort to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles

Danish company says complications with non-oil-based materials would have entailed higher total carbon emissions

The Guardian - UK

Superdrug to stop selling single-use vapes in UK and Ireland

Retailer responds to concerns about environmental impact of millions of e-cigarettes thrown away each week

The Independent UK

1p tax on every new clothing item to tackle fast fashion among Lib Dem proposals

The levy would apply to new garments for sale on the UK market, with the proceeds ringfenced for improving local recycling facilities.

The Hindu

Corporation’s initiatives to keep canals in Vijayawada clean largely positive

Vijayawada's canals have green/blue bins for collecting puja material/flower waste. 500kg of waste collected on Vinayaka Chavithi. Sanitary workers deployed to ensure no plastic bags/flowers disposed. Waste taken to compost plant to make incense sticks. Public largely supportive, but some still flout norms. People realising importance of keeping waterbodies clean.

Newsroom.co.nz

Beyond recycling, what to do about climate change?

Tuesday night's leaders' debate was a sobering reminder that we're not taking climate change seriously enough. Kevin Trenberth looks beyond the usual talking points.

The Guardian - AU

Waste Land: moving documentary sifts through Rio landfill to find human stories

In a film that celebrates the power of creativity, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz collaborates with pickers at a rubbish dump to create art from salvaged material

Newsroom.co.nz

The burning question on rubbish

Mass incineration could be a great solution to New Zealand's increasingly scarce landfill space – or it could be a step backwards environmentally.

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