Waste and Recycling
European recycling jumps 50% but still lags target
Mar 19, 2013 10:39 EDT
Recycling of household waste rose by 50 percent in Europe over a decade but some countries are dragging their feet for meeting a target set for 2020, the European Environment Agency (EAA) said in a report issued on Tuesday.
Europe triples recycling but still lags target
Mar 19, 2013 07:41 EDT
Recycling of household waste has tripled in Europe over the past decade but some countries are dragging their feet for meeting a target set for 2020, the European Environment Agency (EAA) said in a report issued on Tuesday.
Taiwan turns plastic junk into blankets, dolls
Mar 01, 2013 17:27 EST
Some 40 people stand ankle-deep in used plastic bottles in the yard of a recycling station in Taipei, stamping them flat in the first step of a process that will transform the junk into usable goods.
Trying to revive Manila's toxic river heart
Feb 19, 2013 02:25 EST
Boys shout in delight as they flip backwards off a bridge. Fishermen quietly cast rods out. They are joyful acts that should belong to an earlier era, before the Philippines' Pasig River turned toxic.
Trying to revive Manila's toxic river heart
Feb 18, 2013 23:12 EST
Boys shout in delight as they flip backwards off a bridge. Fishermen quietly cast rods out. They are joyful acts that should belong to an earlier era, before the Philippines' Pasig River turned toxic.
Recycled computers offer hope to Romania's needy
Feb 13, 2013 11:55 EST
In Romania, one of the EU's poorest countries, hope to many has come in the form of a computer recycling program that is helping jobless adults and disadvantaged Roma youth beat the odds.
Six million people help global garbage clean-up
Jan 11, 2013 10:37 EST
More than six million volunteers from 96 countries collected an unprecedented 100,000 tonnes of garbage last year as part of a global, web-driven clean-up campaign, cyber-environmentalists said Friday.
Thai 'scavengers club' turns trash to treasure
Jan 02, 2013 02:37 EST
Thai grandmother Nom Prom-on rummages through rubbish bins looking for bottles, cans and paper to trade for food and other goods at a recycling cooperative providing a lifeline for Bangkok's poor.
Thai 'scavengers club' turns trash to treasure
Jan 01, 2013 23:11 EST
Thai grandmother Nom Prom-on rummages through rubbish bins looking for bottles, cans and paper to trade for food and other goods at a recycling cooperative providing a lifeline for Bangkok's poor.
Japan rubbish worker finds $120,000 cash in trash
Dec 18, 2012 23:20 EST
A worker at a waste disposal site in Japan found $120,000 cash in a stream of pulverised rubbish, police said Wednesday.
H&M to collect used clothing in global recycling scheme
Dec 06, 2012 17:11 EST
H&M, the world's second largest fashion retailer, said on Thursday it will begin collecting used clothing in all of its markets next year in a bid to reduce the environmental impact of its products.
Dissident slams Chinese politicians' 'dirty wealth'
Nov 30, 2012 00:04 EST
Chinese dissident writer Liao Yiwu accused China's political elite of accumulating "dirty wealth", saying it had turned his country into "one of the biggest landfills in the world."
Dissident slams Chinese politicians' 'dirty wealth'
Nov 29, 2012 21:08 EST
Chinese dissident writer Liao Yiwu accused China's political elite of accumulating "dirty wealth", saying it had turned his country into "one of the biggest landfills in the world."
Liao slams Chinese politicians' 'dirty wealth'
Nov 29, 2012 18:20 EST
Chinese dissident writer Liao Yiwu accused China's political elite of accumulating "dirty wealth" on Thursday, saying it had turned his country into "one of the biggest landfills in the world."
Spanish sherry city has financial hangover
Nov 25, 2012 09:49 EST
The proud home of Spanish sherry, Jerez de la Frontera, is in the financial dregs, waste bins burning in the streets in the past week in the latest sign of labour strife.
Trash exhibition offers fresh peek at Everest
Nov 21, 2012 01:18 EST
A group of artists is staging an exhibition of sculptures made from tonnes of trash collected on Mount Everest, highlighting the toll that decades of mountaineering have taken on the world's highest peak.
Greenhouse gases rose to record levels in 2011: UN
Nov 20, 2012 06:28 EST
The volume of greenhouse gases causing global warming rose to a new high last year, the UN World Meteorological Organisation said Tuesday.
New York City braces for more harsh weather
Nov 06, 2012 18:12 EST
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced a limited evacuation of some neighborhoods ahead of harsh weather barreling toward a city still recovering from superstorm Sandy.
KISS hails Gaga, others like 'garbage collectors'
Aug 22, 2012 15:48 EDT
Musicians in today's rock bands look like "garbage collectors" and the only true new star is Lady Gaga, members of the legendary heavy metal group KISS said in a chat with AFP.
Afghan scavengers in Karachi crosshairs
Aug 02, 2012 09:31 EDT
Barkat Khan was shot dead as he slept, curled up in the muck in one of the roughest parts of Karachi. He was a dirt-poor 13-year-old Afghan who never went to school and never dared to dream of a better life.
