Co-op is removing the plastic packaging from own-brand Easter eggs as part of an ongoing initiative to reduce unnecessary plastic, and increase the amount of recycled and recyclable plastic on…
Recycling
At a school run by the Askhar Foundation in India, students pay their student fees with plastic waste. Each child brings up to 25 items to school each week. By paying the school fee in…
Several Hilton™ brands recycle soap bars their guests left behind. The collected soaps and amenity bottles are contributed to the Clean World Challenge of Clean the World, a global health…
Indonesia’s second largest city, Surabaya, has just made it possible to exchange plastic waste for bus fares. To receive the bus fare, riders need only recycle plastics at one of…
In June 2018, a number of brands, retailers, and packaging companies committed to using 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging across their global operations by 2025 or earlier. Among the…
They say one person’s trash is another’s treasure, and that’s exactly the premise of London start-up jewellery brand, Lylie’s. With the ambition “to mine e-waste, rather than our environment”, the brand…
The Indonesian government has mobilised its armed forces to help clean up rivers and canals that are clogged with dense masses of plastic bottles, bags and other packaging. The commander…
A new do-it-yourself air-conditioning system relying on plastic bottles and wind is being used in Bangladesh and Pakistan to help cool homes. The system, called Eco-Cooler, consists of cutting plastic bottles…
An automated waste collection system for government-operated flats in Singapore aims to encourage recycling with 24 ‘outdoor disposal inlets’, in addition to refuse chutes installed in the properties. Residents in…
Students in the Netherlands have created the Lina, a car that is intentionally biodegradable. The TU/Ecomotive team at the Eindhoven University of Technology created the body shell of the car…
Ryanair has pledged to eliminate all non-recyclable plastics from its operations by 2023, and introducing a voluntary carbon offset payment for customers when booking. As well as switching to biodegradable…
Coca-Cola has announced a new packaging vision ‘World Without Waste’, which includes the goal to help collect and recycle the equivalent of 100% of the packaging it sells globally by 2030. The plan is to back…
