Hundreds of dumped Christmas trees start piling up at recycling sites on first day of 2021

Festive season is already over! Hundreds of dumped Christmas trees start piling up at recycling sites on first day of 2021 as families begin taking down their decorations London was scattered with old Christmas trees as country is eager to forget 2020 and prepare for new year   Discarded trees could be seen lining a recycling … Read more

Fury as fly tippers dump mountains of Christmas rubbish and recycling outside UK supermarkets

Fury as fly tippers dump mountains of Christmas rubbish and recycling outside UK supermarkets People in Sheffield rushed to get rid of their festive waste, angering local people  Asda stores in Chapeltown, Handsworth and Parsons Cross had piles of bags  Residents have branded the dumped waste mounds as ‘disgusting’ and ‘selfish’  By Amelia Wynne For … Read more

Fury as fly tippers dump mountains of Christmas rubbish and recycling outside UK supermarkets

Fury as fly tippers dump mountains of Christmas rubbish and recycling outside UK supermarkets People in Sheffield rushed to get rid of their festive waste, angering local people  Asda stores in Chapeltown, Handsworth and Parsons Cross had piles of bags  Residents have branded the dumped waste mounds as ‘disgusting’ and ‘selfish’  By Amelia Wynne For … Read more

Britons are baffled by these nine common recycling symbols found on supermarket items

Over 60% of Britons are baffled by these nine common recycling symbols found on supermarket items – so how many do YOU know? Survey found 61 per cent of Britons do not understand basic recycling symbols Even 25 per cent of people did not know the ‘Tidy Man’ figure putting litter in bin Most were … Read more

Recycling test questions how well you know your mobius loop from your compostables

 1. MOBIUS LOOP – 78% recognise This symbol indicates a product is capable of being recycled. When a percentage is found in the middle, this explains how much of the product is made with recyclable materials.  2. TIDYMAN – 76% recognise Tidyman originates from a ‘Keep Britain Tidy’ campaign which began in 1960 and simply … Read more

Man is arrested after ‘dumping a human HEAD in a recycling bin in Spain’

Man is arrested after ‘dumping a human HEAD in a recycling bin in Spain’ – as witnesses mistook it for a Halloween joke Man spotted dumping a human head by a recycling bin in the city of Huelva  Witnesses at first mistook the incident in the city of for a sick Halloween joke  Man was … Read more

Man is arrested after ‘dumping a human HEAD in a recycling bin in Spain’

Man is arrested after ‘dumping a human HEAD in a recycling bin in Spain’ – as witnesses mistook it for a Halloween joke Man spotted dumping a human head by a recycling bin in the city of Huelva  Witnesses at first mistook the incident in the city of for a sick Halloween joke  Man was … Read more

Blue Origin breaks the record for rocket recycling by launching its reusable New Shepard

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has made a new recycling rocket record following the successfully launch and landing of its resuseable New Shepard.  This is the craft’s seventh consecutive flight, which took off from the firm’s West Texas facility. New Shepard launched at 9:35am ET, carrying 12 commercial payloads that it took into orbit and will … Read more

Apple sues recycling partner for $22.7 million, claiming the firm resold more than 100,000 devices

Apple has filed suit against a Canadian company it hired to recycle its devices, claiming it instead stole and resold more than 100,000 iPads, iPhones and Apple Watches. The tech giant is taking legal action against Ontario-based Geep Canada, which it paid to dismantle and recycle over 570,000 Apple devices between 2015 and 2017. Investigators … Read more

Sri Lanka sends back 21 containers of ‘recycling’ to UK because it was full of rotting MEDICAL WASTE

Sri Lanka sends back 21 containers full of ‘recycling’ to UK because it was full of rotting MEDICAL WASTE Previous illegal containers had rags, bandages and body parts from mortuaries  The 260 tonnes of rubbish first arrived in capital Colombo’s main port in 2017  Another 242 containers from Britain remain abandoned at the same port  … Read more