Bikes, bowling balls, and the delicate balancing act that is modern recycling

Video by Jennifer Hahn. (video link) Update: It’s New Year’s eve and Ars staffers are enjoying a winter break (inevitably filled with some joy rides and whatever that choose-your-own Black Mirror thing is). As such, we’re resurfacing a few favorites from the site archives appropriate for the occasion—like this tour of a facility that will […]

Where 747s Go to Die (and Live Again): Touring Tupelo’s Aircraft Recycling Facility

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McDonald’s is falling short on recycling in one massive way — here’s how it’s changing that fact

Reuters McDonald’s plans to add recycling to its more than 36,000 locations around the world by 2025.  Currently, customers can only recycle at roughly 10% of locations.  The fast-food chain is also switching to packaging made with renewable, recycled, or certified materials.  “As the world’s largest restaurant company, we have the opportunity — and frankly […]

Recycling tips: 10 simple ways to cut waste and save the planet

The average household in the UK produces more than a tonne of waste every year and of this only 17 per cent is recycled.  Up until 2008 web designers Rachelle, 45, and her husband Richard, 61, thought nothing of chucking the things they didn’t need in the bin. But seeing a distressing photograph of a […]

Recycling revolution on the way as new ‘smart bins’ mean NO MORE hand-separating waste

The invention automatically sorts rubbish into recycling categories and is currently being trialled in Poland. The plan is for the bins to be on sale in the UK in the next few years. Designed by start-up company Bin.E, the bin recognises different types of waste via a system positioned inside it which uses sensors, image […]

Japan ponders recycling Fukushima soil for public parks & green areas

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Soil from the Fukushima prefecture may be used as landfill for the creation of “green areas” in Japan, a government panel has proposed, facing potential public backlash over fears of exposure to residual radiation from the decontaminated earth. Read Full Article at RT.com RT – Daily news

‘Fake news recycling’: Russian Embassy calls out UK media over ‘Montenegro coup plot’ report

The Russian Embassy in London has rejected as pure innuendo a report in The Telegraph which claimed Moscow had conspired to overthrow Montenegro’s government during the 2016 poll, describing the report as recycled “fake news.” “As usual, no evidence, pure innuendo,” the Russian mission posted on Twitter in response to the Telegraph’s lengthy article that […]