Indonesia is returning 210 tonnes of waste to Australia. Local authorities in Jakarta and Surabaya say the material is too contaminated to be recycled. Eight containers full of used electronics, plastics, engine oil, and aluminium and steel...

Panama has joined more than 60 other countries that have totally or partially banned single-use plastic bags, or introduced taxes to dissuade their use, including Chile and Colombia in the region. Supermarkets, pharmacies and retailers in P...

Piano keys, ping-pong balls and guitar plectrums. What do these three have in common? Theyre made of plastic. UK materials scientist Professor Mark Miodownik talks about taking plastics recycling to the next level. Worldwide production of p...

Soft drink majors Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have announced their decision to leave the Plastics Industry Association- a trade association that represents plastics industry. They now join other companies such as Clorox, Becton Dickinson and Ecol...

In the Hallmarked category, the 14 carat gold scrap prices went higher by $ 2.44 per Oz. The daily scrap gold prices - hallmarked and non- hallmarked edged higher marginally on Monday, 29th July, 2019 on the ScrapMonster Price Index. Howeve...

Sweden has one of the highest recycling rates in the world: in 2017, 99.5% of household waste was diverted from sanitary landfills and recycled in one way or another. This is made possible through the efforts of the Swedish government, muni...

The medals awarded during next summers Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyoset to kick off July 24, 2020will be completely made from recycled materials. The process has been in the works since early 2017, when Japan announced it would coll...

Following months of uncertainty with regards to restrictions on fiber imports into the country, the Indonesian government announced two separate categories to evaluate contamination in imported loads. In accordance with the latest communica...

Indonesia returned seven shipping containers of illegally imported waste back to France and Hong Kong on July 29. This marks the most recent move by a Southeast Asian nation to send back trash misleadingly labeled as recycled materials. The...