England 'to hit recycling target'
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Recycling rates from local authorities show England should reach its 17% target for 2003/4.
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Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire says it is ahead of schedule with plans to cut carbon emissions.
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Officials to ban use of some plastic bags and force consumers to pay for others, as up to 3bn used daily
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The United States Postal Service will begin using packaging made with recycled materials and take other steps to reduce its impact on the environment, Postmaster General John Potter said on Wednesday.
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By ANN S. KIM Staff Writer  When the two plastic crates at Tom Wiest's home fill up, it's time to head to the downtown recycling station. His desire to help the environment makes him a regular visitor.
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Recycling programs are improving the environmental impact of all the packaging Americans consume, says Patrick J. Moore, chairman and chief executive of the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation.
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By Liam Ford, Chicago Tribune  Sep. 10--Chicago officials said Saturday they will expand a pilot recycling program, a sign that the city might be moving toward waving a white flag for its blue bag recycling--a program with a low participation rate a decade after it started.
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By Herman Wang, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 11--Hixson resident Howard McNeese was an avid recycler when  curbside collection was weekly, but since the city cut pickup to monthly,  storing aluminum cans and newspapers for a month at a time has pushed him to  quit recycling.
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Shoppers will be able to tell how much damage their purchases do the environment under a new plan.
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FAMILIES will be able to find out at first hand the importance of recycling their rubbish on Saturday. Park rangers will be talking about a variety of issues at Environment Day which takes place on Saturday, June 16 between 10am and 4pm.
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With up to one billion cards and six million trees set to be thrown out, the government calls on Britons to recycle this Christmas.
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UK government departments are failing to meet targets for cutting emissions, waste and water use, a watchdog says.
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Britain told to increase by seven times its reliance on renewable energy up to the year 2020
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Chips in bins which help councils charge for rubbish collections could be common across the UK in two years.
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By JUDY O'ROURKE\\ Staff Writer  SANTA CLARITA -- A local environmental group that is fighting a planned industrial park project in Newhall asked the city Thursday to reconsider a recycling facility that would be the first project built there.
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(InfoWorld) - Measures to reduce the millions of tons of electronic waste generated each year by manufactures of computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronic products will be the focus of a United Nations-sponsored conference in the capital of Kenya. Delegates from about 120 governments gathered in Nairobi on Monday to begin week-long talks on how to reduce the use of toxic substances, such as lead, cadmium and mercury, found in PCs and cell phones, and to promote programs for recycling and re-using as many components as possible. The U.N. estimates that up to 50 million metric tons of "e-waste" are generated worldwide every year, representing more than 5 percent of all municipal solid waste. In the U.S. alone, as many as 20 million PCs are thrown out every year. A good chunk of that waste ends up in Africa and other developing countries, according to the U.N. Every month, more than 100,000 disregarded computers are entering the Nigerian port of Lagos alone, said U.N. Under-Secretary General Achim Steiner in a speech. Local experts estimate that up to 75 percent of the used PCs, TVs and phones sent from developed countries are unusable and end up in the landfills of developing countries, where the items are often burned, releasing toxic fumes and leaching chemicals. On the table at this week's meeting are proposals to encourage manufacturers to take more responsibility for their products, from the design stage through the supply chain to final disposal. In a speech, Sachiko Kuwabara-Yamamoto, executive secretary of the Basel Convention, which monitors hazardous waste, pointed to a partnership with several mobile phone manufacturers and operators, including Nokia Corp, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB and Vodafone Group PLC to develop programs for recycling and re-using the millions of mobile phones now sold worldwide every year.
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Science & environment: Less M&S food packaging can be recycled than any of its main rivals, a new report shows.