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Plastic-Munching Bacteria Offer Hope for Recycling Our lakes, rivers and oceans are increasingly clogged with plastic, plus trillions of microscopic fragments thereof, from all the useful and disturbingly durable products made possible by…

How are Plastic Pet Bottles Recycled into Clothing? Since the UN General Assembly designated June 5 as World Environment Day, it has served as a platform to raise awareness of the issues that we and our environment are facing. Whether it…

Waste-to-Energy Plants Have Mostly Failed in India – And Yet Governments are Building More Many countries, realising the limitations of such plants, are shifting focus to reducing waste and segregating at the source. On June 13, the…

Recycling Solar Panels Needs Boost from Indian Policymakers Only around 10% of photovoltaic waste gets recylced globally while the rest ends up in landfills Solar energy plays a huge role in shift to renewable energy, but there's a…

The Need for Denim Recycling and its Challenges Denim is one of the most common fabrics used in today’s world. Since huge volumes of denim jeans are produced and consumed annually, the environmental concerns associated with their…

Gravita Surges 36% in 6 Days as Arm Starts Aluminium Recycling Unit in Togo The company said it is expecting additional revenue of nearly Rs 60 crore per annum with gross margins of about 26 per cent from the new capacity Shares of…

Only 5% of Plastic Waste Generated by Us Last Year Was Recycled, Report Says Americans discarded 51m tons of plastic in 2021 – of which almost 95% ended up in landfills, oceans or scattered in the atmosphere Only 5% of the mountains of…

Separation and Sorting Technology Innovations in Waste Handling and Recycling Operations If there is one part of the recycling process that is complicated and hard, it is the part of separating and sorting the recyclables. Effective…

Why is Recycling So Important? The Dirty Truth Behind Our Trash We need to change the way we think about waste. Recycling is much more than just reducing the amount of waste sent to the landfill, with a long list of benefits that aren’t…

More Recycling Won't Solve Plastic Pollution It’s a lie that wasteful consumers cause the problem and that changing our individual habits can fix it The only thing worse than being lied to is not knowing you’re being lied to. It’s true…