Scotland’s recycling rate hits all-time high
Scots are recycling more than ever before as the nation’s recycling rate hits an all-time high in data released by Scotland’s environment watchdog, SEPA.
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Film explores the aluminium packaging recycling journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg5fGVlp8YY
As part of its ongoing work to raise awareness about the benefits of recycling aluminium packaging, Alupro has launched an educational video taking viewers...
Scottish remanufacturing businesses share funding award
Funding has been awarded to nine projects intended to help Scottish remanufacturing businesses explore how to make the most efficient use of materials –...
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...
Firms combine expertise to test and validate systems to chemically recycle waste plastics
A £3.1m grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has been awarded to three firms for an ambitious chemical recycling project that aims to...
Partnership aims to create circular supply chain for wind turbine rare earth magnets
As the first generation of the UK’s wind turbines come to the end of their serviceable life, a project called “Re-Rewind” aims to help...
Making a finer oil: How filtering innovations are easing the process of recycling cooking...
Cooking oil recycling has evolved a little in the past decade or so. Traditional technologies made it difficult to filter used oils consistently and...
Urgent action needed to improve recyclate quality
A new report calls for urgent industry action to define the appropriate quality specifications for mechanical recyclates. There is an urgent need to increase...
Veolia wins South London waste partnership contract
Resource management firm Veolia, through its subsidiary Veolia ES UK, has signed a major new recycling and waste services contract spanning four South London...
What’s on at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe conference?
The challenges of recycling the major different types of plastic including PET, PVC, HDPE, LDPE and mixed plastics will be discussed in detail at...
How we achieved zero waste to landfill
RPC Bpi Recycled Products is the UK's largest producer of refuse sacks, and the largest polythene recycler in Europe. Recently the firm achieved an...
Unique online tool for repair cafés gets an update
The latest version of a free online resource for repair cafés - the Repair Café Carbon Calculator from Farnham Repair Café (FRC) - went...
New Recyclability by Design guidelines published by PIRAP
The Plastics Industry Recycling Action Plan (PIRAP) issued a revised edition of the RECOUP guidelines for plastic packaging – Recyclability by Design - on...
Busting waste and recycling myths
Whether you're a happy-go-lucky 'wish-cycler' – tossing waste in the hope it can be recycled – or one who routinely agonizes over different diameters...
Automation for the people: reducing injury in quarrying
Harrowing statistics from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work state that quarry workers are twice as likely to be killed in an accident...
A satisfactory shake-up for waste?
Coming at the end of a year in which plastic waste has entered the public conversation like never before, the Government's new Waste & Resource strategy for England had a lot of ground to cover to elicit a positive response from the waste industry. This it appeared to do, with a few noteable caveats
Firm calls on Government to support chemical recycling sector
Plastic recycling firm ReNew ELP says it predicts 2019 will be the “breakthrough year” for chemical recycling, but calls on Government to support sector...
Industry-funded communications campaign increases metal recycling rates in Warwick
Warwick District Council has increased kerbside recycling of metal packaging by 28 per cent in six months – through MetalMatters, a communications campaign funded...
Recycling and reprocessing associations make a stand at RWM 2017, and declare “secondary is...
Visitors to RWM 2017 looking to gain an in-depth understanding of the UK's recycling, secondary materials and reprocessing capability, capacity and industry challenges should...
Survey reveals incentives and challenges for the use of recycled plastic
European Plastics Converters (EuPC) — a European trade association — has surveyed plastics converters across Europe to look at the current and future use...
