Recycling is a process using materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to plastic production. Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" waste hierarchy.
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Researchers want to build a space station to recycle junk in Earth’s orbit
There are about 22,000 large objects orbiting the Earth, including working and broken satellites and bits of old rocket from ...
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How supermarkets can reduce packaging to save the planet from drowning in garbage
It was inspiring to read about the launch of Waitrose’s trial in Oxford offering consumers a range of products free of ...
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We can't recycle black plastic, but now we can use its carbon for renewable energy
The big problem with plastics is that though they last for a very long time, most are thrown away after only one use. Since ...
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How to save the planet? Milkmen had the answer all along
Laure Cucuron, Managing Director of specialist recycling firm TerraCycle, took to one of the coziest stages on the first ...
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Study: Biodegradable bags aren’t as biodegradable as you first thought
The idea of a “biodegradable” plastic suggests a material that would degrade to little or nothing over a period of time, ...
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5 clever startups that are making money recycling waste
These amazing startups found innovative, long-term solutions to manage the world’s waste — and you can now support them ...
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Recycling the world’s plastic garbage could buy you the NFL, Apple and Microsoft
This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year. On ...
