Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste — and why do single-use items ...

Using statistics extracted from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), our map shows the rate at which ...

Generally speaking (and dependent on the rules in your council area), wet cardboard cannot be recycled, explained Josh Pitman, Managing Director of packaging firm Priory Direct. Putting wet cardboard ...

During this year’s United Nations General Assembly, we convened a roundtable of senior executives from across the food value chain to discuss one of the industry’s most overlooked levers for ...

For many people, what happens to donated clothes or bags of recycling waste is a mystery — out of sight, out of mind. But for millions, this waste is a livelihood. All over the world, waste pickers ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — With the holiday season bringing increased consumption and waste, U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Environment America Research & Policy Center, and Frontier Group released an updated ...

Food waste in Australian hospitals and Residential Aged Care Homes (RACH) poses a significant challenge to building a national sustainable food system. These settings generate substantial amounts of ...

Discarded electronic waste containing earth minerals is overtaking landfills globally at an alarming rate as much of the tech industry and enterprises kick the disposal problem to the curb. Meanwhile, ...

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 2, 2025 / The world doesn't have a waste problem because it creates too much waste. It has a waste problem because it can't see what it creates.

If we’ve learnt anything over the last 10 days, it’s that the ultra-processed food (UPF) problem isn’t going away. It’s doing the opposite: ballooning into something huge. The Lancet didn’t hold back ...

America has a food waste problem. In a country famed for its large portion sizes, Americans toss out some 30-40% of the food produced. “We think of U.S. households wasting about a third of all their ...