Recycling

Recycling rates soar in Christchurch after council rewards the best households and confiscates bins of laggards

As the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon is not only an important carbon sink, but also home to thousands of species of plants and animals and a crucial part of the water cycle.

Some figurines sold for big bucks, but the supermarket is giving other, unwanted toys a new life.

A recycling breakthrough at UNSW Sydney offers new possibilities for the re-purposing of polymer-laminated aluminium products, such as food and coffee...

A recycling breakthrough at UNSW Sydney offers new possibilities for the re-purposing of polymer-laminated aluminium products, such as food and coffee packaging.

Designing buildings so they can easily be taken apart and the materials reused provides a feasible and commercial pathway for minimising waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Our research shows one such Curtin University building, the Legacy Living Lab in Fremantle, reduces construction waste and cuts emissions to almost a tenth...

So, you've decided to do a major clean out of your home and you've come across a mountain of dead batteries. How do you dispose of them?

The West Australian government will move to ban some single-use plastic products by 2023 and phase out all others by 2026.

Policy-makers are increasingly asking if we can instead safely burn waste as fuel. Belief says we cant, but evidence says we can.

A new report suggests children could be leading an electric revolution.

SINGAPORE: Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have found a way to turn the shells of crustaceans, as well as discarded branches, into nutritional supplements and medicine.

Researchers including at University of Melbourne have resolved a fundamental challenge in next-generation perovskite solar cells, bringing widespread use closer

Environmentally conscious kids are influencing their parents' car buying decisions, according to a new survey commissioned by Peugeot in the UK. The Peugeot study revealed that over half of the chi...

After last year committing to using recycled material in all products by 2022, Google launces Pixel 5 and Nest made of recycled material

A new study suggests that bioplastics — plastics that are made from biological material instead of from petroleum and/or are engineered to be biodegradable — contain as many toxic chemicals as conventional plastic. Plastic is an environmental nightmare. Its production emits health-threatening and planet-warming pollutants, and its disposal is no...

Conventional plastic is made from oil. The production of plastic is not sustainable, and it can contain substances we know are dangerous if ingested.

If you thought those flimsy disposable plastic grocery bags represented most of our plastic waste problem, think again. The volume of plastic the world throws away every year could rebuild the Ming Dynasty's Great Wall of China – about 3,700 miles long. In the six decades that plastic has been manufactured for commercial uses, more than 8.3 billion

Head of asset finance group explains which industries are key to unlocking future success

With many countries already taking on similar ideas, the Coalition government's steadfast investment in fossil fuels will only hold Australia back.

Many countries have decided a Green New Deal is exactly the right stimulus response to the COVID crisis. Australia's steadfast investment in fossil fuels will only hold us back.