Asia

The UN's top environmental scientist tells a group assembled in Kenya that biodegradable plastics are a false solution to the...

A country in Southeast Asia investigates pollution from an e-scrap recycling plant, and LG Electronics unveils a repair-friendly smartphone in...

A U.K. grocery chain will accept plastic Easter eggs for recycling, and some Iraqi children who fled violence now survive...

The Indian government has unveiled tough regulations aimed at reducing plastic waste. India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change...

A company gets the backing of HP to begin collecting outdated computers in Malaysia, and a South African startup gets...

India launches a project to train hundreds of thousands of people working in the unorganized e-scrap sector, and the king...

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The Association of Plastic Recyclers spotlighted five recycled-product innovations and one educational effort at the group's first Plastic Recycling Showcase...

An international metals recycling company jumps into the PET recycling business, and Scotland mulls a beverage container deposit program. An...

Revamped regulations in China require plastics recycling operations to meet minimum processing benchmarks and a variety of other standards. As...