The global e-waste monitor 2024
<p>The world's electronic waste generation is increasing five times faster than documented e-waste recycling, according to the United Nation's fourth Global E-waste Monitor (GEM) report.</p>
Waste Recycling
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Awash with plastic bottles and lacking a law, Kenya struggles to recycle
As global concern over plastic pollution rises, corporate giants such as Coca-Cola and Unilever are pumping cash into a recycling initiative in Kenya they hope will provide a model for other developing
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Only half of packaging waste is recycled – here's how to do better
Almost half of Australia's packaging waste is not being recovered for recycling, according to the first comprehensive study to track the fate of used packaging materials. Overall, 56% of packaging was
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American scientists find better way to recycle plastic bottles
American scientists have developed a more effective and greener way to recycle the single-use plastics made from a common polyester material, which could help pretect oceans from plastic waste by jumpstarting
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Australia’s first playground made with recycled beauty products
A school in Gold Coast, Australia, has helped build the country’s first playground out of recycled beauty products, after it won a competition held by major beauty brand Garnier and global recycling company
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War on waste: Tata Starbucks to use fully recyclable items from June
Tata Starbucks is on track to achieve its target of 144 stores by the end of the financial year 2019, it CEO Navin Gurnaney said on Thursday. Currently, the global coffee chain operates 138 stores across
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Bins handed out for waste separation in Calcutta's Chetla
Each recipient got a green bin for biodegradable waste and a white one for non-biodegradable and recyclable waste Mayor Firhad Hakim handed over colour-coded waste bins to residents of Chetla on Wednesday,
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Bins handed out for waste separation in Calcutta's Chetla
Each recipient got a green bin for biodegradable waste and a white one for non-biodegradable and recyclable waste Mayor Firhad Hakim handed over colour-coded waste bins to residents of Chetla on Wednesday,
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A new circular vision for electronics: time for a global reboot
Global e-waste production is on track to reach 120 million tonnes per year by 2050 if current trends continue, according to a report from the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) and the
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India has a 26,000-tonne plastic waste problem
NEW DELHI: India generates 25,940 tonnes of plastic waste every day, but 40% of it remains uncollected causing choking of drainage and river systems, littering of the marine ecosystem, soil and water pollution,
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Somalis turn a profit by transforming their scrap plastic
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - As the rubbish built up on the rubble of Mogadishu’s wrecked streets, Ahmed Abdullah saw a business opportunity. He recruited a team of workers - many of them refugees from Somalia’s