Mombasa's Baus Taka app offers users a way to have waste collected, recycled and to earn money from it. But, challenges remain.
Inefficient sorting means 25 percent of materials end up wrongly in landfills. AI is increasingly helping recycling centres ensure everything ends up where it belongs.
The number of electric cars on German roads increased to one million in 2022. Using a chemical recycling process, Tozero aims to reduce battery waste to zero.
With currently only 1 percent of clothes being recycled, the textile industry has a big waste problem. Here are the people stitching together a solution.
Mushrooms are the forests' great recyclers, but can they also help reduce electronic waste?
While some manufacturers are going big, others are looking to small, self-sustaining microfactories as a more sustainable way to build things.
Recycling e-waste still presents us with major challenges, partly because the individual components are difficult to separate from one another. However, researchers are developing a new method - with the help of bacteria.
Around a quarter of waste entered into recycling bins is actually non-recyclable. A new camera-equipped rubbish bin hopes to clean up the industry and show consumers where they are going wrong.
As the pace of technology quickens, older electronic goods are increasingly thrown out. In Egypt, much of this e-waste finds its way onto the streets. A new app wants to change that.