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A study last year revealed the worth of smartphones in our drawers was £1bn, while five billion handsets were thrown away worldwide in 2022. Sky News visits a recycling facility that aims to make sure no device goes to waste.
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Meet the house that diapers built. Researchers have designed and erected a house that has shredded, disposable diapers mixed into its concrete and mortar.
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A little electricity has helped a team of chemists to make sustainable polymers that could improve e-waste recycling, precious metal mining and perhaps even work as antimicrobials.
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Each pair of sneakers contains 10 plastic bags and 12 bottles. The tote bag contains four plastic bottles and the box is made from recycled paper and has seeds in it which you can grow.
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Apple says iPhone is now 20% made from recycled materials and the goal is that eventually all new iPhones will be made from 100% recycled materials.
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The facility is the first commercial-scale operation of its kind in Europe, addressing the increasing demand for sustainable battery materials from European manufacturers and reducing dependence on imported critical battery raw materials.
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In an unusual cotton recycling project, two of the fibre’s crops growing in Australia this year have an unusual additive in the soil – shredded cotton bedsheets and clothing.
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“Plastic,” a new production by renowned Japanese company K-BALLET, aims to draw attention to a global pollution crisis through some unusual set and wardrobe design.
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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has partnered with Thames Water to install a network of more than 100 drinking water fountains in busy and accessible areas of London, to reduce the number of single-use plastic water bottles used.
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Jewellery brands big and small have been turning to e-mining, using metals reprocessed from devices such as mobile phones, laptops, gaming consoles and graphics cards as an alternative to mined materials.
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World leaders, environment ministers and other representatives from 173 countries have agreed to develop a legally binding treaty on plastics, in what many described a truly historic moment.
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Contaminating the waste stream with material that is not actually recyclable makes the sorting process more costly because it requires extra labor. Wishcycling also damages sorting systems and equipment and depresses an already fragile trading market.