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If it is broke, then fix it — but manufacturers don’t always make it easy. We report on Europe’s growing ‘right to repair’ movement. Plus: plastics crisis; greener funerals; coffee waste innovators; battery mining; recycling renewables
Bengaluru-based Metastable says its recycling technology can extract valuable metals from spent lithium-ion cells
As the world switches to renewables, difficulties in dealing with spent panels and turbines are coming into focus
It’s more than just a drink: companies are finding ways to process spent grounds and other waste into useful products
Companies can do more to improve recycling and ease the environmental damage from discarded bottles
Brussels’ proposals led many industries from plastic producers to Camembert makers to push for exemptions
Countries including Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran push for waste management rather than curbing plastic production
Also in this newsletter: How Brussels is working to defuse cheesemakers’ concerns over packaging rules
The Danish start-up helps businesses and consumers make ends meet — while tackling a global problem
Cutting carbon emissions is the correct path but the sector also needs a strategy to recycle scrap metal
There are psychological reasons why people fail to do this basic task at work
Companies that wrench apart and shred old cars prepare for ‘fundamental shift in recycling’
Also in this newsletter: Why Hungary’s Orbán has forgotten his dislike of academia over the Nobel Prizes
The rush to meet self-imposed targets on reduction and reuse has yielded few results
People in Lincolnshire are divided about the case for an underground disposal facility for radioactive material
Collapse of company set up to administer project leads to £4.5mn writedowns
World’s biggest toymaker says new material made from recycled bottles would have bigger carbon footprint
The short-term pain of accommodating new gear such as Apple’s USB-C charger may make sense in the long run, but I really resent it
The potential for fraud will not diminish given growing recycling requirements
Water company excuses for spills debunked by findings that most infrastructure was built in 20th century
Also in today’s newsletter, lessons from Florida for the world of biodiversity credits
Ministers aim to help landlords with environmental obligations as they also delay recycling scheme
Also in today’s newsletter, why US solar panel installations could jump this year
Environmental groups criticise prospect of delay to packaging waste initiative
Business school academics studied how to tackle lost nutrition and climate impact
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