Recycling Update

Reduce. Reuse. And Then, When All Else Fails, Recycle. A municipal waste worker turns away another shipment of recycled materials littered with greasy pizza boxes and broken glass, sentencing this waste to slow death in a landfill without…

All 30K PVR INOX employees to wear uniforms made with recycled PET bottles Over the past nine months, as many as 1,000 PVR INOX Ltd employees across 25 movie theatres in 20 cities have switched over to wearing uniforms made with fabric…

Researchers Recycle Rare Earth Metals With Biomass Rare Earth metals are essential to countless high-tech applications. Working together with the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, a research team from the Technical University…

Reduce, reuse and recycle for a sustainable future, says PM The launch of Mission LiFE comes a month ahead of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (CoP27), the mega UN climate meet, which will be held in Egypt. Prime…

Indian Oil Corporation To Recycle 100 Million PET Bottles Annually To Make Staff Uniform IOC is the first Indian firm to directly venture into the recycling of PET bottles. Each set of uniforms will support the recycling of around 28 used…

India recycles only 1% of its construction and demolition waste: CSE The rest remains strewn across, in landfills, or in plain sight everywhere, leading to air and water pollution India recycles just one per cent of its construction and…

India generates 3.6 lakh million tonnes plastics waste, 50% of it recycled SYNOPSIS The minister also said that the number of registered plastic waste processors under Plastic Waste Management Rules is 1,419. All developed and…

Indian Oil Corporation To Recycle 100 Million PET Bottles Annually To Make Staff Uniform In a push to decarbonise the economy, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the nation's largest oil firm, will recycle 100 million discarded mineral water,…

As India’s EVs age, supply of recycled lithium rises In the absence of lithium-ion battery manufacturing in India, nearly all of the recycled lithium is exported. Lithium-ion battery recyclers in India expect their lithium-based…

Samsung Plans To Use 100 Percent Recycled Plastics To Make Phones By 2050 Samsung Electronics has said it aims to broaden the use of eco-conscious materials to all its smartphone products in the coming years. The world’s largest…