UK tungsten mine waste to be used as secondary construction aggregate
Construction materials supplier GRS has secured an exclusive deal to bring to market millions of tonnes of granite arising from British tungsten mining for...
Please decorate responsibly, says beverage can expert
Aluminium is an infinitely recyclable material, with over 75% of all the aluminium ever produced still in use today. And yet craft brewers often...
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...
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...
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.
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),...
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....
Plastic waste has some economic benefit for developing countries
For decades, wealthy nations have transported plastic trash, and the environmental problems that go with it, to poorer countries, but researchers say they have...
Start-up spotlight: Recycling waste plastic into bricks
A Dorset start-up says it is turning plastic waste into building materials, and looking to empower communities in developing countries to do the same.
Greenbrick...
Pyrolysis used to demonstrate closed-loop recycling for single-use facemasks
A seemingly innovative circular economy pilot project has aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of closed-loop recycling of single-use facemasks.
The collaboration, combining contributions from Fraunhofer...
Anaesthetic gas recycling business completes £2.9m funding round
Anaesthetic gas recycling technology firm SageTech Medical Equipment (SageTech) has completed a £2.9m pre-series A investment, including a £1.6m investment from specialist venture capitalist...
Decommissioning in Shetland “moves to the next level” following the explosive collapse of the...
The Dales Voe decommissioning facility in Shetland, operated by Veolia and Peterson, is said to be one step closer to becoming a centre of...
