Waste car batteries usually end up on the scrapheap. But a German engineer has made it his mission to recycle them - by extracting the valuable raw materials they contain.

An organization in Nigeria is combining environmental action with female empowerment. It trains women to recycle waste plastic by weaving it into fashion accessories - which they can sell for a profit.

Despite good recycling habits, Germans get through a quarter ton of packaging per person each year. A new law is supposed to boost industrial-scale recycling and reusable wrapping and containers.

War waste: A never-ending battle

In Philadelphia, recycling efforts go to waste

Funmi Adubi uses waste paper to make flowers & other decorative items using various techniques of paper craft to promote the importance of recycling.