Foldable bike helmet awarded best recycled plastics product
A bike helmet made from recycled plastic picked up the award for the UK Best Recycled Plastics Product 2021 at the Plastics Industry...
Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition
On the day that MGT Teesside misses its latest deadline to begin operations (10 December), the Cut Carbon Not Forests (CCNF) coalition warns the...
EU Waste Shipment Regulation should not incentivise landfills capacity
A trade group comprising European suppliers of waste-to-energy technology, ESWET, has welcomed the European Commission’s proposal to revise the waste shipment regulation to reduce...
Computing remanufacturing firm secures BSI kitemark
Circular Computing, a specialist in remanufacturing of hardware, has been awarded the BSI Kitemark certification for its Circular Remanufacturing Process, achieving an apparent industry...
Landfill and recycling both down, and incineration on the up: Scotland waste summary 2020...
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) published statistics on 7 December detailing household waste collected across all local authorities during 2020, as well as...
Beyond the bale: Viridor unveils plan to eliminate waste plastic exports
Recycling and resource management firm Viridor has unveiled its "Vision for Zero" - a plan to reduce (to zero) the amount of plastic waste...
Promising results claimed for in-flight use of pure sustainable aviation fuel in a passenger...
Initial findings from a world-first study of the impact of 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on both engines of a commercial jet have provided...
Gas purification converts NOx to fertilizer
A seemingly efficient process for producing fertilizer from industrial emitted nitrogen oxides is being launched in The Netherlands.
Based on an the principle of...
Taking an inventory of the global plastics problem
360 million metric tonnes of new plastic was produced in 2018. Where did it all go? A group from the University of Pittsburgh explains,...
Crunch time for plastic packaging recycling? Group comments on report
The plastics recycling member-based charity RECOUP has published its 2021 UK Household Plastics Collection Survey, which analyses the collection of plastics for recycling from...
Launch-capable rocket engine tested with plastic from recycling
A UK company based in Bletchley has developed and tested a high-power chemical rocket engine partly fuelled by plastic waste.
Developed by Pulsar Fusion, the...
A new waste market is taking shape in Europe, following COVID-19, says recovery firm
Kjetil Vikingstad, CEO of resource recovery specialist Geminor, writes
Despite the recent flare-up of the COVID-pandemic in Europe, a number of countries are reporting a...
Marking progress towards a circular economy for lighting
The path to a circular economy for lighting is becoming significantly clearer, suggests recycling firm Recolight, reporting on the findings and discussions to have...
Recycling firm fined £20k following illegal export of household waste from Scotland
A leading UK and European recycling company was fined £20,000 at Airdrie Sheriff Court on 16 November after Scotland’s environmental regulator, SEPA, uncovered what...
The dead zone
Mikael Khan of environmental consultancy Aqua Enviro, offers a few thoughts on maximising AD plant efficiency and revenues by interrogating mixing performance in reactor tanks.
Short-lived pollutants side event
The World Biogas Association (WBA) is hosting an official side event in the Blue Zone at COP26, exploring the influence of pollutants like black carbon. The UN organisation received 1,110 applications for 240 slots, to host these side events.
Adding fuel to the fire?
A report from NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) seems to strengthen the case against Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), currently a key ingredient of the UK government's climate plan.
Separation method frees rare earths from coal ash
The unexpected bounty of nature seems apparent from the discovery that a harmless food-grade solvent can be used to extract highly sought rare-earth metals...
£6.1 million to help recycle plastic waste into construction products
Thanks to an injection of £6.1 million, including the help of PRN funding, the UK’s largest producer of damp-proof membranes is increasing its capacity...
Turning e-waste into gold: The Royal Mint brings precious metal recovery technology to the...
The Royal Mint has signed an agreement with Canadian clean tech start up Excir to introduce a seemingly world first technology to the UK,...
