Category: Recycling

Huge battery recycling facilities in the West Midlands, such as the planned Veolia plant in Minworth, are ideally situated to support the UK’s Lithium-Ion (LiB) battery recycling industry, say analysts at the University of Birmingham.

It’s unrealistic to expect that people can make enough money from collecting bottles to start their own business. Gulshan Khan via Getty Images Teresa Sandra Perez, Royal Holloway University of London There are an estimated 60,000 informal waste pickers, also known as reclaimers, in South Africa. They sift through mixed household waste, either from landfill […]

Accra, Ghana//-Every year Mc Kingtorch Africa builds a few 10 feet tall bottles tree with 400 used plastic bottles. This year, new record has been set thanks to the sponsorship of Geodrill Ghana, West Africa’s leading exploration drilling company and Twellium the company that produces Verna Water.

Accra, Ghana//-Jekora Ventures, a private waste management company has donated 240 blue colour litter bins to Plastic Police project (PPP), a pressure group at a brief ceremony on the premises of the waste management company in Accra.

Did you know that recycling one million laptops saves the energy equivalent to the electricity used by 3,500 US homes in a year?

Open fires and poorly balanced pots are also hazardous to the families that use them. Lucian Coman/Shutterstock Oliver Stoner, University of Glasgow In wealthy countries, most people can barely imagine using anything other than electricity or gas to cook in their homes.

Accra, Ghana//-The Mohinani Group, the largest packaging manufacturer has launched its Fifth Annual Waste Management and Recycling Competition across 37 schools in the Greater Accra Region. 

Andrey Andreyev, CC BY-SA Michael Tamvakis, City, University of London It is only a few days since the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) signalled the dire consequences of human-induced climate change.

Most rural households are still reliant on firewood for cooking. Harsha K R/Flickr, CC BY-SA Abdul-Wakeel Karakara Alhassan, University of Cape Coast Many Ghanaian households are energy poor. Households that use biomass like wood, grass, animal dung and charcoal are considered energy poor while households that use clean energy like electricity and liquefied petroleum gas […]

Nairobi, Kenya, December 11, 2020//-Cities are home to 3.5 billion people, half of humanity, and this figure is projected to rise to 5 billion by 2030.