Not-so-fast fashion? Captured carbon incorporated in fabric of Zara dress range
A collaboration between biotech firm LanzaTech and Spanish clothing retailer Inditex has led to the design of a capsule collection for the latter’s largest...
Recycling trade association criticises comments of EA chief on waste exports
The Recycling Association has criticised the "dangerous language" used by Environment Agency chief executive Sir James Bevan.
In a speech at a 12 April event...
How to achieve the three R’s with bearings
Alan Stewart of bearings distributor Rubix writes
Used in every conceivable manufacturing application, bearings keep production rolling by transferring motion and transmitting forces. Individual bearings...
UK supermarket starts coffeepod recycling scheme
Scheme turns used aluminium and plastic pods into new products such as beverage cans and furniture
1.2bn beverage pods bought in the...
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...
Waste crime will not be solved by banning plastic exports, says recycling trade association
The Recycling Association has warned that waste crime will continue to happen, even if exports of plastics for recycling are banned.
MPs on the Environment,...
Partnership to create first end-of-life supply chain for electric car batteries
A seemingly ground-breaking project to create a circular end-of-life supply chain for the electric vehicle industry is being led by EMR Metals Recycling. The...
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...
Funding for plastic recycling tech
Greenback Recycling Technologies, a company striving to develop circular solutions for packaging waste, has closed an approximately £8m series A financing round
The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris...
The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris...
PRN proposals: A welcome raising of standards (comment)
Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste welcomes the consultation on the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN).
All English exporters will have to register and get an environmental...
New machine claimed to offer advances in sensor-based aluminium sorting
TOMRA's x-ray transmission (XRT) technology "combines innovative synergies in metal and diamond recovery, once again setting new standards in sensor-based aluminium sorting", says the...
Sponsored content: Announcing Recolight’s webinar series for 2021
Recolight has announced a new Circular Economy webinar series for 2021. It will build on the events held in 2020, and the progress being made by the lighting industry
Comment: Northern Ireland waste statistics and the importance of collecting organics
Well over half of all household material sent for recycling over the three months to June this year was composted, according to the...
Commercial-scale facility will recycle all forms of plastic waste
· New HydroPRS™ process creates raw ingredients for "infinitely recyclable new products"
· World-first commercial-scale plant starts construction in Teesside, UK, backed by global partners...
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...
Diaper waste solution wins global green start-up award
A clean fuel start-up from Kenya has won the latest ClimateLaunchpad, a global green start-up competition. The start-up, Leafy Ke, which converts used diapers...
Sorting technology boosts polymer purity at Viridor’s Avonmouth and Skelmersdale plants
Viridor has chosen the very latest in sensor-based sorting technology from TOMRA Recycling for two of its polymer recycling plants. 15 TOMRA AUTOSORT® units...
Low-carbon cement made from mining sidestream
Materials technology firm Betolar has been granted a patent for a method for converting mining waste material into a reinforcing binder. In the future,...
Recycling equipment manufacturer explores the future of the global aluminium industry in latest webinar
On 20 May 2021, metal sorting technology expert TOMRA Recycling held its first metals sorting webinar, which was entitled ‘Aluminium sorting industry outlook –...
