Accra, the capital city of Ghana, in West Africa, has a particularly pungent waste problem. In the bustling metropolis, 65 per cent of the 2,385 tonnes of waste produced daily is organic materials. When this waste is dumped in landfill, it often decomposes anaerobically (without oxygen) releasing methane, a greenhouse gas ten times more harmful than CO2.
Social enterprise Community Wood Recycling has rescued over 20,000 tonnes of waste wood from landfill in 2018/19, according to the organisation’s annual report.
The ringleaders of a Polish human-trafficking ring that forced more than 300 victims to work in a variety of jobs including at recycling sites across the West Midlands have been jailed in what is the biggest ever modern slavery prosecution in the UK.
UK charity organisation the British Heart Foundation is to sell pre-owned toys in compostable packaging after teaming up with Direct Packaging and compostable film manufacturer Futamura to reduce its plastic footprint.
As we journey toward zero waste, the challenge becomes more about capturing hearts and minds. Kate Dickinson talks to grassroots groups in Wales that have created a blueprint for others to follow.
Consumers want clear recycling information on the front of plastic packaging to reduce confusion, according to a new study by plastics recycling charity RECOUP.
From ‘ghost fishing net’ trackers to fungus-based ‘bio-recycling’, five innovative projects have won funding from Plan Plastic, an initiative from Waitrose & Partners and Hubbub.
Coffee chain Starbucks and environmental charity Hubbub have come together to launch The Cup Fund, which will see grants going to at least 10 large-scale cup recycling projects.
Waste management company Biffa has announced a three-year partnership with UK-based charity WasteAid, which will see the company support WasteAid financially and share its expertise with communities in low-income countries to improve the management of waste.
The Furniture Re-use Network (FRN) has relaunched itself as simply the Reuse Network in a bid to widen its scope and further promote the importance of reuse as a concept.
The determination of one group of women has seen a Lebanese village's multi-stream recycling collection expand in the absence of adequate state assistance.
Supermarket chain Costcutter has made a donation of £650,000 to resource efficiency charity WRAP as part of a set of enforcement undertakings announced by the Environment Agency.
Social recycling and waste management company Recycling Lives has been handed a contract to process waste metal coming from fuel reprocessing and decommissioning at Sellafield.
Sainsbury’s has partnered with behaviour change charity Hubbub and Bosch to launch a new initiative to combat the environmental and social impact of food waste – The Community Fridge Network.
Bristol charity Aid Box Community will be salvaging unwanted tents and camping equipment at Glastonbury festival this weekend to donate to refugees in need of them.
As London’s first Library of Things celebrates its first birthday, could community schemes sharing expensive and rarely-used equipment offer a glimpse into the future of how we handle household items?
The Welsh Government has announced that it will be funding a new support scheme for communities affected by landfill with part of the revenue generated by the incoming landfill disposals tax.
OLIO has launched a new donations feature to its food sharing app which encourages users to make a pay-as-you-feel donation to a food charity, with Feedback and FareShare the first to benefit.
As the city rises up the development index, Bogotá’s waste services are undergoing structural transformation. Now Colombia’s waste-picking recicladores are fighting to play their part as services are commercialised.
