The global hunger for rare earth materials is set to rise. But what happens to the precious materials once the products are discarded, and can they be put back to use? A new wave of REE recycling might be upon us.

Chinese solar giant Trinasolar has produced the first 100 percent recycled photovoltaic module, reducing electronic waste from solar panels.

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.