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                Waste management & recycling

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                • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
                  Scotland
                  Scotland recycling failure doubles National Investment Bank losses

                  Collapse of company set up to administer project leads to £4.5mn writedowns

                  A grocery store customer puts an empty plastic bottle into the recycling bank
                • Monday, 25 September, 2023
                  Lego
                  Lego ditches oil-free brick in sustainability setback

                  World’s biggest toymaker says new material made from recycled bottles would have bigger carbon footprint

                  Jumbled Lego bricks
                • Friday, 15 September, 2023
                  Emma Jacobs
                  Oh no, not more tech stuff!

                  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

                  A USB-C plug reflects in an Apple logo. When you next go to buy an Apple product, why not reframe the transaction as your decision to bequeath the company some money?
                • Friday, 1 September, 2023
                  Aurubis AG
                  Aurubis: green aims blackened in recycling scandal

                  The potential for fraud will not diminish given growing recycling requirements

                  An excavator grabs copper scrap for recycling at the Aurubis metals plant in Hamburg, Germany
                • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
                  UK infrastructure
                  Victorian sewers not to blame for England’s pollution, research shows

                  Water company excuses for spills debunked by findings that most infrastructure was built in 20th century

                  Waste water flows from an outflow pipe on Pagham Beach in Bognor Regis
                • Friday, 4 August, 2023
                  Moral Money
                  Big Plastic’s pivot to offsets Premium content

                  Also in today’s newsletter, lessons from Florida for the world of biodiversity credits

                  A plastic grinding machine
                • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
                  UK politics
                  UK government says energy certificates need ‘fundamental reform’ in latest green shift

                  Ministers aim to help landlords with environmental obligations as they also delay recycling scheme

                • Friday, 21 July, 2023
                  Moral Money
                  Why investors are calling DIBs on a new kind of bond Premium content

                  Also in today’s newsletter, why US solar panel installations could jump this year

                  Staff at a Wecyclers recycling facility
                • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
                  UK politics
                  UK set to push back new recycling scheme amid industry concerns

                  Environmental groups criticise prospect of delay to packaging waste initiative

                  Customers carrying groceries from an Asda supermarket
                • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
                  Special ReportFT Business School Insights
                  Researchers’ recipe for cutting restaurant food waste

                  Business school academics studied how to tackle lost nutrition and climate impact

                  An employee holds a potato at a factory
                • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
                  LexRetail & Consumer industry
                  Fast fashion: EU recycling plan unravels on thorny externalities Premium content

                  The timid proposals highlight a broader problem

                  Women sewing garments in a factory
                • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
                  Moral Money
                  Trash talk: US recycling set to surge Premium content

                  Plus, the transatlantic divide in ESG bond fund flows

                  Crushed plastic waste
                • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
                  Special ReportJapan and Sustainability
                  Colourful facade hides flaws in Japan’s ‘green’ waste policy

                  The country’s incinerators turn much of its rubbish into electricity — and greenhouse gases

                  A garbage transport truck parked in front of a waste disposal plant in Japan
                • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
                  Special ReportJapan and Sustainability
                  Companies tap Niigata prefecture’s traditional sustainability

                  Rice-based plastics and natural snow cooling systems offer ways to help meet climate goals

                  A farmer hangs bound rice to dry at the Hoshitoge rice terraces in Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan
                • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
                  UK politics
                  Waste reduction plans in England ‘do not exist’, watchdog warns

                  Four years after outlining ambitious targets ministers have made little progress

                • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
                  FT Tech for Growth Forum
                  Can technology make your business more sustainable?

                  Emerging companies have made a difference in helping larger groups to measure, assess and devise plans to minimise their impact

                • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
                  The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: Jewellery
                  X-ray vision: a surprising source of recycled silver

                  A process that recovers the metal from old X-ray film is a sign of the jewellery industry’s moves towards more sustainable practices

                  Angharad jewellery made from AgAIN Silver
                • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
                  Pollution
                  Nations split on how to cut plastic pollution after week of UN talks

                  US, Russia and China want a voluntary system in which countries establish their own rules

                • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
                  News in-depth
                  Throwaway Britain: what happens to our old tech?

                  The FT fitted trackers in old, broken laptops and gave them to UK retailers for recycling. Their journey reveals much about the informal trade in waste

                  An electrical appliances bin at a household waste centre
                • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
                  Environment
                  UK water industry pledges £10bn investment to stem sewage spills

                  Environmental campaigners dismiss ‘empty’ apology issued by trade body Water UK

                  Members of the public and protesters from Hastings and St Leonards Clean Water Action protest against sewage pollution in beaches in St Leonards, Sussex
                • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
                  EU states back ban on destruction of unsold clothing

                  Textile industry accounts for a fifth of the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions

                  Clothing on a clothes rail
                • Friday, 12 May, 2023
                  Watches & Jewellery
                  Waste to wearable: the designers driving a circular jewellery economy

                  Using materials such as old electronics and recycled leather, start-ups are attracting fans for their aesthetics as well as sustainability

                • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
                  Batteries
                  Glencore plans Europe’s biggest electric car battery recycling plant

                  Commodity trader and mining group aims to extend its business to take advantage of big demand for EVs

                  Glencore’s plant in Sardinia
                • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
                  Big investors call on companies to slash use of plastics

                  Coalition overseeing $10tn in assets warns on financial risks of inaction

                  Disposable single use plastic objects such as bottles, cups
                • Friday, 28 April, 2023
                  News in-depth
                  Rome’s waste crisis turns into golden opportunity for Dutch

                  Mayor Roberto Gualtieri seeks to replace ‘inefficient system’ with long-term export contracts and new incinerator

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