Recycling

Recycling
Incredible success in the reuse of fashion waste

Incredible success in the reuse of fashion waste

As one of the largest producers and exporters of readymade garments in the world, there is ample scope for us for taking proper planned steps in recycling and reusing fashion waste. Simco can be ...

Afghan refugees collect waste at a dumping ground on 18 November 2021 in Istanbul.

Illegal but essential, migrants recycle Istanbul's waste

Shrouded by acrid smoke, a young Afghan crouches sorting waste he has pulled from the trash bins of Istanbul, anxious that Turkey will soon strip him of even this subsistence.

This file photo taken on 17 September 2015 shows a Chinese labourer sorting out plastic bottles for recycling in Dong Xiao Kou village, on the outskirt of Beijing.

World can't recycle its way out of plastic crisis: Experts

Recycling will not be able to contain a runaway global plastic waste crisis, experts said on Friday as they called on companies to reduce plastic production and shift more products into reusable and ...

Petri dish containing different steps and procedures by Nanyang Technology University (NTU) to turn durian husks into antimicrobial bandages

Scientists in Singapore transform fruit leftovers into antibacterial bandages

The process extracts cellulose powder from the fruit's husks after they are sliced and freeze-dried, then mixes it with glycerol. This mixture becomes soft hydrogel, which is then cut into bandage ...

Logo of Pran-RFL

Pran-RFL manufacturing products from used plastic

Pran-RFL Group is making hundreds of products, recycling discarded plastic materials

Scientists say the application of the technology could prevent fluoride toxicity in water supplies where the element occurs naturally at levels too high for human consumption.

New filtering method promises safer drinking water, improved industrial production

The ability to remove fluoride with a relatively inexpensive filtering membrane could protect communities from fluorosis without requiring the use of high-pressure filtration or having to completely ...

A zero waste includes 3R – reduce, reuse and recycling.

Dhaka North and South Waste management in a mess as master plan stalled

Since the two Dhaka city corporations have been following conventionals method of waste management, with the two landfills in Matuail of the capital and Aminbazar of Savar near full capacity, both ...

Greenpeace activists paint a slogan reading "Stop CO2" on one of the smoke stacks at the Belchatow power plant in Rogowiec. The photo was taken on 3 July, 2007

Ending subsidies that harm nature could create millions of green jobs: WWF

Better conservation and management of natural areas, such as parks, oceans, forests and wildernesses, are seen as vital to protect the natural systems on which humans depend and to meet targets for ...

A recyclable cardboard bed and a mattress are pictured in a residential unit for athletes during a media tour at the Olympic and Paralympic Village for the Tokyo 2020 Games, in Tokyo. The photo was taken on 20 June, 2021

Tokyo puts a spotlight on sustainability at Olympic Games

The gold, silver and bronze medals were forged from recycled metal from old mobile phones and other small appliances donated by the general public and the 3D-printed victory ceremony podiums were ...

Hefty EnergyBags and other plastic waste is piled up at Renewlogy Technologies in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, on 18 May 2021

Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure

Plastic production - which industry analysts forecast to double by 2040 - will be the biggest growth market for oil demand over the next decade, according to the Paris-based International Energy ...

Electric vehicles are pictured at an internal shuttle bus station of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Village in Tokyo, Japan, on 20 June, 2021

Olympic Games Tokyo 2020's environmental impact

The most recent official estimate of the Tokyo Games' carbon footprint includes 1.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide generated through the construction or renovation of venues and other infrastructure

A girl plays with a toy found in a plastic recycling factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 July, 2019.

Global plastic pollution may be nearing irreversible tipping point

A study published in the journal Science, stated that plastic pollution is a global threat, and actions to drastically reduce emissions of plastic to the environment are the rational policy response

Women work in a garment factory, as factories reopened after the government has eased the restrictions amid concerns over the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 3 May 2020

Bangladesh garment industry could save $500m a year by recycling cotton

Bangladesh's garment industry, the world's second-largest exporter of clothes, could reduce its annual spending by $500 million if it recycled cotton waste from its factories and fabric mills

Filipino artist Gilbert Angeles incorporates expired paint and shredded plastic wrappers into a painting he is working on, at his studio in Plaridel, Bulacan province, Philippines, on 8 February 2021

Philippine Artist fights waste using recycled trash in paintings

Angeles’ artwork has since been shown in galleries, with paintings selling for around $600 to $3,000, depending on the size

Boxes of N95 protective masks for use by medical field personnel are seen at a New York State emergency operations incident command center during the coronavirus outbreak in New Rochelle, New York, US, 17 March 2020.

US university decontaminates N95 masks

In the wake of a critical shortage of N95 face masks that block the novel coronavirus, researchers at Duke University in the US have confirmed a way to use existing vapourised hydrogen peroxide ...

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