Waste

September 23, 2026

UK Digital Waste Tracking Rules Start October 1 With Two-Day Reporting Deadline for Waste Receivers

Regulation Alert UK Digital Waste Tracking Rules Start October 1 With Two-Day Reporting Deadline for Waste Receivers Mandatory digital waste tracking goes live October 1, 2026, across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

A materials recovery facility, the kind of recycling infrastructure behind the UK's still-unpublished circular economy growth plan.

Business·Policy·UK

UK’s circular economy growth plan remains unpublished since early 2026

The UK's Circular Economy Growth Plan is supposed to provide strategic direction for England's transition toward an economy where resources remain in use longer. The government committed to publishing it in early 2026. More than a year and a half

September 17, 2026

Salt and Sunlight: How Cheap Chemistry Is Rewriting Plastic’s Fate

Environment·Plastic·Recycle·Science

An Oak Ridge breakthrough uses cheap molten salts to turn polyethylene into fuel below 200°C. AI-designed enzymes attack PET from the other side. The

German Scientists Convert 5.6M Tons Plastic Waste Into 99.8% Pure 3D Printing Filaments

Plastic·Recycle·Science·Sustainability

In German laboratories, plastic bottle caps that once held your morning milk are being reborn as precision-engineered components through an innovative recycling process that

Representative Image. Toxic Town Drama. Photo Source: John DiLillo (Tudum by Netflix)

Entertainment·Nature

Netflix Toxic Town Drama Links Corby’s 3x Higher Birth Defects to Steelworks Waste

A new Netflix drama has brought attention to what the streaming service describes as “one of the UK’s biggest environmental scandals.” “Toxic Town,” starring Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wood, tells the

Tejal Somvanshi

April 8, 2025

Representative Image. Recycling of plastic waste, Photo Source: Reinhold Möller Ermell (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Pollution·Recycle

Chemical Recycling: 80% Incineration, Only 0.1% Plastic Reused

Chemical recycling sounds promising—a technology that breaks down plastics into their molecular components to create new materials. But recent research reveals a different story. According to an NRDC report, what the plastics

Karmactive Staff

March 14, 2025

Representative Image Mining in Motion, Photo Source: Lars Hammar (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Pollution

Phosphate Industry’s Radioactive Waste: Environmental Lawsuits and Health Risks

Conservation, public health, and environmental justice organizations have filed a lawsuit against the federal government for failing to regulate toxic and radioactive waste from phosphate mining and fertilizer production. The legal action

Govind Tekale

March 11, 2025

Design·Plastic·Sustainability

Transforming Food Residues into Future Resources: Bio’c and Burn’tShell

In a world harmed by the devastating consequences of disposable plastics, industrial designers Zumra Yagmur Cetinler and Damla Ertem have emerged as visionary innovators in the field of bio-based materials, presenting Bio’C

Angelin Mariya Jiji

July 20, 2023

Artivism

Juliette’s Eco-Art Breathes Life into Discarded Materials: Unveiling Beauty from the Depths

At first glance, Eco-Art by Juliette may leave you perplexed with its array of plastic ropes, colorful fibers, and interesting shapes. The backstory behind all her captivating pieces is one that plagues

Diya Sharma

June 10, 2023

Plastic·Pollution

Hidden Hazards of Recycling: Microplastic Threats from Cutting-Edge UK Recycling Facilities

A UK “state-of-the-art” plastic recycling facility may release up to 75 billion microplastics per cubic meter of wastewater per year. The above plastic waste constitutes around 6% of the plastic processed in

Rahul Somvanshi

June 3, 2023

Fashion·Sustainability

Indian Eco-Friendly Fashion Label Not Compromising On Style – ‘Doodlage’

At the heights of waste production and more significant carbon emission, it is important for any organization to look after the climate, and the Indian company Doodlage does the job with perfection.

Tista Karmakar

October 15, 2022

Design·Sustainability

A Sustainable Material Made From Wasted Seashells

Newtab-22 is a material-led design studio co-founded by Hyein Choi and Jihee Moon. The designer duo based out of Seoul and London started from Royal College of Art in 2019. They seek

Karmactive Team

February 26, 2022

Artivism·Sustainability

‘Turn Off The Plastic Tap’ & More

Benjamin Von Wong is the artist behind this giant art installation titled, ‘Turn Off The Plastic Tap’, This giant levitating tap is shown spewing plastic waste, more specifically single-use plastic. Wong is

Karmactive Team

February 18, 2022

News·World

Trash At Music Festivals, British Behaviour & Policies

The aftermath of Reading and Leeds Festival 2021 is literally trashy. Festival-goers leave the venue completely trashed, and this behavior is repetitive at every Reading festival and many others in the UK.

Barkha Pawar

September 12, 2021