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If you have gardens around your house, it’s time to become aware of free resources you have been throwing away and opt to start composting as a way to increase your sustainability—and the health of your plants. Link: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-and-why-to-start-a-compost-pile-at-home-the-benefits-of-black-gold/

A poll of 2,000 parents of children aged five to 18 found one in six believed their kids knew more about what can be recycled than they do. Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/recycling-children-parents-shame-single-use-plastic-a8824606.html

The method I&8217m most familiar with is vermicomposting (from the Latin vermis, meaning worm). Link: https://www.providencejournal.com/entertainmentlife/20190315/trash-tutorial-composting-can-be-done-indoors-in-three-ways

A ‘reverse vending machine’ that accepts plastic bottles and aluminium cans has been unveiled at King’s Cross. Link: https://www.standard.co.uk/futurelondon/theplasticfreeproject/single-use-plastic-veolia-leon-recycling-plastic-bottles-a4093156.html

Some Central Ohio recycling companies blame China’s ban on imported plastic waste for rising costs and lower revenues. Link: Some Central Ohio recycling companies blame China’s ban on imported plastic waste for rising costs and lower revenues.

Pilot will demonstrate how to utilise the green waste that fills 50 of regional landfills and help diminish production of Green House Gases. Link: Pilot will demonstrate how to utilise the green waste that fills 50% of regional landfills and help diminish production of Green House Gases.

With China no longer accepting used plastic and paper, communities are facing steep collection bills, forcing them to end their programsburnbury more waste. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/local-recycling-costs.html

Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash. Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china-has-stopped-accepting-our-trash/584131/

US chemical firm Eastman is developing a process to recycle polyester plastic waste, breaking down the material through a chemical process so that it can then be used in the production of new polymers. Link: https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/us-firm-develops-chemical-recycling-process-for-plastic/

Products may be superficially olddamaged but their basic elements can always be reused, the materials engineer says Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/06/nothing-should-be-classified-waste-veena-sahajwalla-sees-crisis-as-opportunity