A team of scientists and engineers will on Saturday begin an ambitious cleanup of plastics in the Pacific Ocean targeting a stretch of water three times the size of France known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A 600m-long floating barrier will be launched off the coast of San Francisco and, powered by currents, waves […]

Hundreds of thousand of people in more than 90 countries are expected to take part in demonstrations this weekend to protest about the failure of politicians to tackle the global environmental crisis. Organisers say more than 800 events – from marches to street theatre, acts of civil disobedience to mini festivals – will take place […]

They’re the 10 common things that muck up recycling for everybody. We asked professionals: A single lithium battery can burn down a recycling plant. Plastic bags clog machinery. Garden hoses and electric cords do the same. And all of the above contaminates the output of scrap paper and plastic, driving down what that scrap is worth. Bottom line? Take your recycling rejects to an official “drop-off” […]

Residents of Istanbul will now be able to use public transport for free in exchange of empty plastic bottles and cans, the mayor said Friday. Mevlut Uysal announced a new recycling project at a news conference in Istanbul where people will receive free credit on their passenger cards (Istanbul kart) in exchange of bottles and […]

Governments have taken the first steps on a path that may lead to the creation of a global environment treaty. Plastics, climate change and other environmental problems will be discussed as the UN takes stock of humanity’s failure to protect the systems that sustain it. At a meeting in New York this week, UN general […]

By Adrian McDermott One can generalize that America’s drinking water is very safe.  However, vast swathes of land that are home to millions of people in America are actually at risk from polluted drinking water. In July this year, the Michigan department of environmental quality released the statement that the PFAS level in a water […]

It’s rare that we write about solar farms without somebody complaining about the loss of agricultural land or natural habitat. But a growing number of solar installations are seeking to combine energy production with natural ecosystem enhancement and/or food production. Now Fast Company has a cool profile of Eagle Point ‘solar apiary’ in Oregon, which […]

A few years ago, someone snuck into the London Underground and plastered several hundred guerilla posters over ads. The posters read things like “Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed … It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs for […]

Council officials will search through residents’ rubbish and shame lazy recyclers with a garish sticker on their wheelie bins, under a new WA government waste program. The stickers, of yellow, green or red hands pointing downwards, may be placed on the bins of people who sort waste into the wrong bins. Launched on Thursday, the […]

Households who fail to recycle properly could soon be hit with a fee by their local council in a bid to reduce landfill waste The plans, reported by BusinessWaste.co.uk, would see local authorities charge individuals whose households incorrectly put recyclables into general waste bins, causing a bigger strain on landfill sites. Despite huge increases in […]