It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released his design for a plastic recycling machine to the world for free. The aim was to make plastic ...

People doing up their flats and houses will be able to take some DIY waste to Devon recycling centres for free from January. Previously people taking in waste such as plasterboard have had to pay a ...

Though 100% of plastics are recyclable, just 10% of our plastics ever actually get recycled. Most of this waste winds up clogging landfills. For his senior thesis project at Eindhoven Design Academy, ...

A ban on fees to get rid of DIY waste in England will do little to reduce fly-tipping, some councils have warned. About a third of local authorities charge to dispose of DIY waste at recycling centres ...