Project aims to boost recycling supply chain for luxury cars
A new research project aims to deliver a sustainable source of rare earth magnets for electric and hybrid vehicles for one of the most...
Extra 823 million plastic bottles will be produced under proposed DRS, warns aluminium packaging...
· Aluminium packaging recycling body urges caution to avoid unintended consequences of a DRS
· Two thirds of shoppers will switch from buying infinitely recyclable...
Navigating the ban on single-use plastics
By Samantha Osborne, Commercial lawyer at national law firm Freeths
With the ban on single use plastics now here, businesses must ensure that they understand...
Commercial production first for PC/ABS pellets from WEEE
Plastics recycling and technology company MBA Polymers announced on 22 April it has started the first commercial production of post-consumer PC/ABS pellets from...
Turning fish waste into carbon-based nanomaterials
Group says they have developed a simple, fast, and energy-efficient synthesis method for producing exceptional carbon nano-onions from fish scales
Carbon-based nanomaterials are finding...
Firms plan first multi-layered carton recycling facility in the Netherlands
Paper-based packaging firm Smurfit Kappa has joined with companies HVC and Bluemats to unveil an ambitious plan for the first full beverage carton recycling...
Christmas waste has cost English councils £72 million, but they have no powers to...
Waste packaging and food leftovers from this Christmas alone will have cost councils £72 million. In England, local authorities spend around £300 million every...
Funding to support UK fuel pellet first
A recycling business which takes household waste destined for landfill and turns it into fuel has secured a £575,000 debt funding package from Lancashire...
Europe gets serious about plastic waste
The European Commission has announced the adoption of a new strategy with respect to the way plastic products are designed, produced, used and recycled in the EU
Railway station coffee recycling scheme picks up sustainability awards
A coffee recycling partnership between Network Rail and bio-fuels start-up Bio-bean has received national recognition at some of the UK’s green business awards.
In late...
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...
A practical guide for the zero waste movement
“IT was a giddy moment for all of us,” recounts Paul Connett of the meeting in October 2011 at which he first had the...
Scottish government sets out circular economy ambitions
Scottish environment secretary Richard Lochhead’s opening address to the Scottish Resources Conference on Wednesday (7 October) declared an intention to introduce a formal food...
Oven-ready solutions?
A medium-temperature reaction, pyrolysis can reduce the plasticized medical-protection garb back into an original form – such as chemicals and petroleum – and then recycle it, perhaps into fuels, according to a new study by Cornell University.
Scottish college “rockets” food waste recycling rates with second on-site composter
Dundee and Angus College has invested in a second of Tidy Planet’s Rocket Composters for its Arbroath Campus, after successfully composting over 70 tonnes...
Time to press on with EPR and Consistency and ditch DRS, says The Recycling...
The Recycling Association has said that the National Audit Office (NAO) report on resources and waste reforms shows that Defra needs to get on...
£4m investment in new Central Scotland recycling facility
Recycling and waste management business Levenseat has announced plans to invest £4m upgrading a new Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), which it purchased for an...
John Lewis pilots pick up ‘buyback’ service for unwanted clothing
To help reduce the 300,000 tonnes of clothing which gets sent to landfill each year in the UK, John Lewis is piloting a service...
Local Government Association calls for industry-wide approach to tackle unrecyclability of plastic packaging
Food manufacturers must simplify the plastics they use and make them more amenable to recycling, the Local Government Association said on 4 August –...
WRAP-led group continues with efforts to standardise recycling systems in England
On 12 February WRAP announced the start of the second phase of its cross industry project to examine ways to bring greater consistency to...
