About half of the waste in residual rubbish bins from detached homes in Vejen Municipality should have been sorted for recycling, a municipal survey reported by DR found. The share was nearly 60 per cent for waste from apartments. Municipal employees sorted 1,159 kilograms of residual waste from …

Workers at Danish waste company Nordværk have found nearly three tonnes of glass, used needles, scalpels and other clinical waste in household hazardous-waste boxes, putting staff who sort the contents by hand at risk, DR reports. Palle Bach Andreasen, a specialist worker at Nordværk’s hazardous-…

Environmentalists are urging people to choose natural decorations and avoid disposable plastic when visiting graves for All Souls’ Day, which honours the dead. The Environmental Protection Agency also advises sorting waste properly, LRT reports. Instead of plastic flowers, baskets and wreaths, th…

Battery-powered LED grave candles must not go in residual waste because they could catch fire, the Association of Austrian Waste Management Companies warned in a report by ORF Burgenland. LED candles are increasingly common in cemeteries, especially in the week before and after All Saints’ Day. T…

A new sorting plant will recover recyclable materials from household waste in Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and Tårnby, even as residents are expected to keep sorting their rubbish at home, Danish broadcaster DR reports. ARC, the waste company that operates Amager Bakke, is preparing the plant next t…

South Kurzeme Municipality is closing three public recycling points in Grobiņa this week after residents repeatedly put unsorted rubbish in the containers or left waste beside them, LSM reports. The municipality has paid more than 1,500 euros in fines over the past year because of incorrect sorti…

See plastic waste in Waingapu through a billboard held by our team before installation. Ten panels will invite sorting, less burning and better collection across the city of East Sumba.

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More than 28 tonnes of batteries were sorted out of household waste at waste-sorting centres in the Central Latvia region in 2025, according to data compiled by Getliņi, a regional waste management centre, LSM reported. Batteries may contain heavy metals and chemicals including lead, mercury, cad…

Latvia is sorting more waste, but recyclable materials still frequently end up in household waste, LSM reported. This increases waste volumes and bills while damaging materials that could otherwise be recycled. Maija Krastiņa, a member of the Zero Waste Latvia association and a circular economy e…

Mu, Y., & Vásquez, C. (2025). “Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape. Social Semiotics, 1–22. ABSTRACT This study examines how the Chinese government uses multiple semiotic resources, in both online and offline contexts, to (re)shape citizens' behaviors and construct knowledge about wastesorting under the recent national waste-sorting policy. Informed by Foucault's notion of governmentality, we show how governmental strategies operate at the level of both material artifacts (e.g.

AMP’s AI-driven waste sorting solutions help optimize material recovery and recycling processes. Our waste sorting machines use real-time material characterization and high-speed sortation to…

More than 500 households in Stevns Municipality have ordered over 1,000 larger recycling bins, according to DR. The demand has surprised the municipality, which has had to order additional bins. Residents can order the 370 litre bins free of charge through a municipal campaign. They replace the s…

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Mu, Y., & Vásquez, C. (2025). “Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape. Social Semiotics, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2025.2543085 ABSTRACT This study examines how the Chinese government uses multiple semiotic resources, in both online and offline contexts, to (re)shape citizens’ behaviors and construct knowledge about wastesorting under the recent national waste-sorting policy. Informed … Continue reading

Mu, Y., & Vásquez, C. (2025). “Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape. Social Semiotics, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2025.2543085 ABSTRACT This study examines how the Chinese government uses multiple semiotic resources, in both online and offline contexts, to (re)shape citizens’ behaviors and construct knowledge about wastesorting under the recent national waste-sorting policy. Informed … Continue reading

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