Grist on MSN5h
The ‘recycled’ plastic in your shoes, shirts, and bags? It’s still destined for the landfill.
“Taking a plastic bottle and turning it into part of a pair of sneakers that after a year will be buried or burned is not perpetuating a cycle,” said Kevin Budris, deputy director of Just Zero, a ...
ABC Business on MSN13d
How much of your aluminium can, glass jar or plastic bottle has been recycled?
The grocery aisle is a dizzying array of colourful packaging, but most of it is made of virgin materials. So what happens to ...
The Hoya5d
Recently Proposed ‘Bottle Bill’ Provides Consumers with a New Incentive to Recycle
Councilmember Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1) proposed the Recycling, Refund and Litter Reduction Amendment Act of 2025, also referred to as the “Bottle Bill.” The amendment would place an initial 10-cent ...
Ireland’s Deposit Return Scheme is reducing litter & creating cleaner streets & beaches – charities are also benefiting
IRELAND’S bottle recycling scheme was met with scorn and derision when it was launched last year, with questions over the ...
City & State New York8d
Environmental advocates recycle campaign against plastic packaging for new session
Activists and plastics producers are back in Albany this week to continue last year’s fight over the Packaging Reduction and ...
Leighton Buzzard Observer on MSN13d
MP votes to pay people to recycle plastic bottles and metal cans
A scheme that aims to tackle littering and boost recycling of plastic bottles and metal cans has taken another step forward ...
Households to get money back for recycling plastic bottles in supermarkets
UK households are set to get money back for recycling as the Government introduces a new deposit return scheme aimed at ...
Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury's to pay shoppers to bring empty bottles back
The government has pledged to "clean up Britain" with a new deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and cans - and is ...
Yahoo News UK1d
Paid recycling is coming to the UK – here's how it will work
Britons will be given a cash incentive to recycle plastic and metal bottles and cans under a new bottle-return scheme set to ...
circularonline2d
Ireland’s DRS collects 900 million bottles and cans in its first year
Since the launch of Ireland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) on 1 February 2024, 900 million bottles and cans have been returned ...
Irish Mirror on MSN3d
As Ireland marks a year of the controversial Re-Turn scheme, we ask: Is it working? Or is it a shambles?
Environmentalist John Gibbons says one billion bottles and cans being returned shows it's a success, while columnist Larissa ...
Ireland delivers verdict on paid recycling scheme now coming to the UK
Ireland's Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), which sees consumers paid to recycle bottles and cans, has been controversial.