UK plant uses clean technologies to recover copper from PCBs
A circular solution to conserve strategic metals and resupply UK industry has marked important progress with the announcement by Bioscope Technologies of the successful commissioning...
Commingled collection leads to higher recycling rates,* is the message of the latest NI...
Joseph Doherty, CEO of waste management firm Re-Gen, writes
The Northern Ireland Local Authority Collected Municipal Waste Management Statistics annual report for 2023/2024 has provided...
Plastic packaging collection survey fleshes out “monumental” challenge
A monumental challenge lies ahead when it comes to collecting plastic packaging from UK households, says plastic resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, releasing...
Probing human serum for unknown and hazardous chemicals
A groundbreaking method of detecting unknown chemicals in human serum is proposed in a study by a group from Chiba University. The approach answers...
Bicycle tyres recycling scheme aims to double collection points by 2026
Velorim, "the UK’s simple solution to recycling bicycle tyres and inner tubes", has announced its ambition to double collection points across the UK by...
Online giants will be required to pay their way with WEEE collection and recycling
Online marketplaces will be required to pay their fair share towards the cost of recycling waste electricals, in a new set of measures...
Government pulls plans for a takeback scheme for single-use cups
The UK government has cancelled plans to proceed with a takeback scheme for single-use cups.
Announced by Boris Johnson's Conservative government in November 2021, the...
Circularity metrics inform seafood packaging solution
Sustainable and fibre-based packaging solutions firm DS Smith is replacing plastic pallets for canned products with corrugated cardboard in collaboration with Denmark’s largest industrial...
New Recyclability by Design guidelines encompass EPR and emerging issues
RECOUP has updated its Recyclability by Design (RBD) publication, bringing things up to date with emerging requirements, and at a critical time for packaging...
Group plans to advance furniture recycling mission in Scotland
Over 3 million tonnes of office furniture is sent to landfill annually across the world, explains Recycle Scotland as it announces a fresh new...
Using sunlight to recycle black plastics
Black foam and black coffee lids, which are often made of polystyrene, usually end up in landfills because colour additives lead to ineffective sorting....
£1.5 million+ on offer to UK construction via pallet returns scheme
Companies across UK construction can claim a share of more than £1.5 million1 (GBP) by returning bright green LOOP pallets for reuse, according to...
Product reduces TPH levels to non-hazardous status
An oil-spill-eating product from A&S International has been used at a facility of SUEZ recycling and recovery UK to reduce Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon (TPH)...
Time to give up on DRS folly, says Recycling Association
The Recycling Association has said that now would be a perfect opportunity to abandon the unnecessary deposit return scheme (DRS) proposed by the UK...
First pour of innovative IBAA concrete in England
In what's described as a landmark project for the construction industry, the first lower carbon concrete solution from sustainable technology firm, Recycl8 and construction...
Improving UK council waste management services with IoT and 0G LPWAN technology
Local councils in the UK are facing unprecedented financial pressures, with one in five potentially facing insolvency by 2025. These councils must meet the...
Holding it together: Startup plans first sawdust processing plant in Scotland
A team of researchers in Scotland is supporting a clean tech startup to transform low-value co-products from the forestry sector into eco-friendly alternatives to...
Low-carbon aluminium initiative gets £3.4 million from UK government
Plans to revolutionise the aluminium supply chain in the UK have been supported by a £3.4 million grant from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC).
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Food waste contributes 10% to global emissions but 9 out of 10 countries’ NDCs...
Environmental NGO WRAP is using COP29 to highlight the need for countries to include food loss and waste in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
A...
Scottish waste management stakeholders come together to address sector challenges
A new partnership aims to help develop a residual waste strategy for Scotland and build capacity within the country’s waste management system. The initiative...
