Scottish council becomes first to trial recycling weighing technology
A waste weighing programme being launched next month in North Lanarkshire will be the first in Scotland to use using Radio Frequency Identification...
Guide warns incinerator GHG emissions often worse than predicted
The United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) launched a good practice guide in July, intended to help with assessing the greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts...
Belgian battery collection relies on IoT solution
An attempt to digitalize, or automate, battery collection for recycling is underway in Belgium.
Electronics specialist Unitron Connect is collaborating with Bebat (the firm...
Shedding light on luminaire recyclability
An assessment of the recyclability of waste luminaires appears to show that over 83% of a typical batch of these lighting components can be...
Brighton becomes first UK council to offer PPE collection for recycling
Brighton & Hove council has collaborated with recyclers ReWorked to station PPE recycling bins and hand sanitiser stations around the city centre. The collection...
What is litter?
Your eyebrows might raise involuntarily at the seeming banality of the question, yet most people can offer only a vague definition. In a bid...
Are businesses ready for the plastic packaging tax?
With less than a year to go until the Plastic Packaging Tax is introduced in the UK, a study by Veolia appears to show...
Praise for landmark oil platform decommissioning project
One of the North Sea's largest decommissioning projects appears to be nearing completion, with the removal of over 36,000 tonnes of material, intended to...
Boxing clever in the Southeast? Service aims to capture hard-to-recycle items
In a bid to combat so called ‘wish-cycling’ and contamination, recycling firm Paper Round has launched "SustainABLE Box", a self-assembled box intended to capture...
Initiative launches to help recycle cosmetics samples packaging
An apparent industry-first initiative aims to help beauty influencers and media recycle empty packaging and containers produced every month from beauty samples and cosmetic tester pots.
Bratislava textile collection firm says smart waste management pays for itself
A textile waste collection company in Slovakia has published the results of a waste monitoring project using Sensoneo waste monitoring sensors, part of a system that supports dynamic and automated waste collection.
Researchers demonstrate using bacteria to recover metals from EV batteries
A group at Coventry University say they have demonstrated a process for recovering all of the metals inside, using a process called bioleaching.
German circular economy accelerator programme welcomes first 15 start-ups
The first group of 15 start-ups has been welcomed to a new accelerator programme located in the Rhine Ruhr area of Germany, a region being positioned as an emerging "circular valley", a hotspot for innovation in technologies that facilitate recycling and reuse.
Major milestone reached for international grass-roots waste management platform
A major milestone was seemingly reached in late July with the registration of the 100th waste management project to the Circular Action Hub (CAH),...
Measuring methane at landfill sites using drones
Waste management firm Viridor says it is demonstrating its ambition to tackle climate change by supporting the development of new technologies for measuring and...
Reusing 10% will stop almost half of plastic waste From entering the ocean, says...
It is possible to prevent almost half of annual plastic ocean waste by reusing just 10% of plastics products. This is apparently one of...
Rubber modified asphalt is a proven circular solution, says report
A new report claims to find that rubber modified asphalt (RMA) is a resilient pavement solution to rebuild roadways, as well as offering a...
Decontamination system claimed to support reuse of healthcare PPE
Described as a range of state of the art UV-C disinfection chambers for the healthcare industry, the Mackwell Health Whitebox is seemingly equipped to...
Study demonstrates CO2 savings of “holistic resource systems”
A new study appears to demonstrate the potential of an optimized waste management system to make significant strides in the reduction of CO2 emissions....
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Asbestos-related diseases take the lives of more than 39,000 Americans every year. Despite the material’s known health impacts, it can be found in older homes and industrial properties and continues to be used in products such as gaskets, friction products, roofing materials and fireproofing materials, posing a threat to workers in construction and general industry.
