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Nick Oettinger, Managing Director of The Furniture Recycling Group
Fly-tipping – the tip of the waste crisis iceberg

With fly-tipping reaching epidemic proportions in England, Nick Oettinger, Managing Director of The Furniture Recycling Group, looks at the issue, the underlying causes and what can be done to buck this socially and environmentally unacceptable trend.

Daphna Nissenbaum, CEO and Co-founder
Compostable packaging infrastructure can solve the plastic packaging issue

Daphna Nissenbaum, CEO and Co-founder of compostable packaging producer TIPA, calls for a significant investment in facilities capable of dealing with compostable packaging to address the problems posed by plastic packaging.

Mark Burrows-Smith
2019: A year in WEEE-view

With 2020 upon us, REPIC CEO Mark Burrows-Smith reflects on the year gone by – and it’s certainly been an interesting one for waste industry stakeholders and producer compliance schemes.

Paul Vanston, CEO of INCPEN
Is ‘partially good’ good enough?

Paul Vanston, CEO of the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN), calls on the resources and waste industry to be bold in its actions to combat climate change and advance the circular economy in 2020.

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Can you imagine how much recycling gets missed across a county?
Over 32,000 tonnes of material that could be recycled is instead put in residual waste bins each year in West Sussex, costing the council an estimated £3 million a year in disposal costs. To highlight the scale of this waste, West Sussex County Council has created a video that visualises it on a personal and then county-wide level.
Gum Forest sprouts in London to make litterers reconsider spitting out their gum
Emma Elston (second from left)
Emma Elston to head up Women of the Year Awards

Emma Elston MBE, Founder and Chief Executive of UK Container Maintenance (UKCM), will be heading up the prestigious Women of the Year Luncheon and Awards for the second year running.

Waste workers in Gwynedd.
Concerns raised over safety of waste operatives

With waste workers deemed ‘key workers’ and essential to keeping public services running, leading industry associations have raised concerns over how to keep waste operatives safe during the coronavirus outbreak.

An image of a DS Smith hygienic box
DS Smith develops hygienic boxes for essential deliveries

Fibre-based packaging company DS Smith has developed hygienic boxes to provide essential provisions and vital medications to those practicing social distancing or self-isolating during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Cardboard packaging.
Recycling Association calls for assurances over continuity of recycling collections

The Recycling Association has asked Defra to ensure that household recycling collections are maintained to maintain sufficient availability of material for food and medical supply packaging.

UK waste and recycling companies issue joint coronavirus statement
UK waste and recycling companies issue joint coronavirus statement

The UK waste sector has issued a joint statement to the public urging residents to follow government advice on managing their household rubbish to minimise the spread of coronavirus to waste workers and warning of emergency service changes.

Ray Georgeson
Georgeson to take temporary charge of WasteAid

Ray Georgeson will take temporary charge of international waste management charity WasteAid once CEO Mike Webster leaves his post at the end of March.

Cassava waste.
UK-India group develops compostable film to extend the life of fruit and vegetables

A consortium of UK and Indian businesses and organisations has developed a new compostable film designed to reduce food and plastic waste backed by Innovate UK and coordinated by the Newton Fund.

Apartment blocks in Tower Hamlets.
Tower Hamlets bin strike off as deal reached over holiday pay

Veolia and the trade union Unite have reached a settlement over unpaid holiday pay to refuse workers in Tower Hamlets to ensure streets are clean during the coronavirus crisis.