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Why are chip bags so hard to recycle?

The modern chip bag took decades to evolve from a single sheet to a complicated mix of plastics and…

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E-Waste Recycling and Environmental Impact

E-Waste Recycling and Environmental Impact

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How Olympic host cities have recycled 5G infrastructure to improve locals' internet speeds and connectivity

5G infrastructure powering the Olympics benefits local communities long after the Games conclude.

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This UK company is selling chips in a fully biodegradable “paper” bag; is this the future of single-use packaging?

The plastic alternative can be recycled, re-pulped, composted, and even breaks down in anaerobic en…

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How to recycle makeup into watercolors

Emily of Emdoessketches is an illustrator who specializes in watercolor. Emily came across an old e…

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Amazon is trying to eliminate plastic that doesn't get recycled. It's actually making some progress.

Amazon is using a paper filler made from 100% recycled material instead, which customers can recycl…

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AI could help the US be less terrible at recycling

EverestLabs is among a group of AI startups disrupting the waste sector by using 3D cameras, machin…

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16 things you shouldn't recycle even if you think you can

Therefore, it's necessary to check with your municipality to see the types of recyclables it's equi…

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Banned cancer-causing additives have been found in commercial floor covers — here’s another reason why that's concerning

In order to convert polymers into actual usable products, manufacturers add certain chemicals to al…

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Battery maker and recycling firm Lohum raises $54 million

Lithium-ion battery pack maker and recycling firm Lohum on Wednesday said it has secured USD 54 mil…

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China says 2 military employees sold 60 pounds of secret documents to a recycling plant, allowing a shopper to bag 4 volumes for under $1

Two personnel tasked with disposing the 200 documents instead sold them all to a recycling plant fo…

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Elon Musk took a jab at Disney's Bob Iger with an apparent recycled April Fools' joke

Musk's comment was posted in the early hours of April 1 in what appeared to be an attempt to be one…

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Hindustan Zinc proposes to create separate entities as part of restructuring

The Board of Directors of Hindustan Zinc have decided that considering the scale, nature, and poten…

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India is the Biggest Dumping Ground for E-Waste. Here's How Teens Recycle It

Around 50,000 people, many of them children, spend hours recovering gold, copper, and platinum from…

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55 tons of ocean plastic collected from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be recycled into Kia’s electric vehicles!

Kia has already begun upcycling plastic in many car parts, such as the EV9 model which incorporates…

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Hindalco highlights green initiatives across railways, EVs & e-waste recycling

India’s metals major Hindalco has been active in the railways sector and has already commercialised…

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Sneakers are bad for the environment and super difficult to recycle. We visited a company that claims it found a solution.

FastFeetGrinded in the Netherlands showed Business Insider how it uses heat to break down and recyc…

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Gold rush: Don’t recycle or book profits yet, another bull-run on the way say analysts

India is sitting on physical gold holdings which are estimated anywhere between 25,000 to 27000 ton…

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Plastic recycling plants could end up dumping lakhs of kilograms of microplastics in water bodies, study finds

During the cleaning process, the plastic items are washed with water several times to rid them of a…

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Recyclers reject most plastic. This company turns it into furniture.

Packaging for lotion, toothpaste, and makeup is a recycling disaster. But one UK family business ha…