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Lego reveals prototype brick made from recycled plastic

The brick is made from recycled polyethylene terephthalate plastic sourced from used bottles

Bright Green Plastics invests seven-figure sum into new recycling facilities

The firm is injecting the money into state-of-the-art plastic washing and extruding machinery

Do binmen dream of electric vehicles?

Rob Cole reports on the introduction of electric waste vehicles in the City of London

Mushroom supplier to pay charity over £50,000 for breaking packaging regulations

Material footprint in Scotland 38 per cent higher than global average

News in Brief 23/06/2021

Spotlight

Addressing the plastics recycling challenge at UKRI

Paul Davidson, Challenge Director of Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), discusses ongoing projects and challenges brought about by mass consumer plastic packaging

Comment

2021 to herald biggest change in biowaste market in recent years

With mandatory food waste collections now on the horizon decisions need to be made about collection and treatment. WRM Director Ben Brown considers what this means for the coming year

The PRN system is ripe for reform, not replacement

Replacing the PRN system with an ‘all-in’ deposit return scheme is not the answer for glass, says Recresco director Tim Gent

A System Change Compass - charting the path to the European Green Deal

David Newman, Managing Director of BBIA, considers the key messages of the new report 'A System Change Compass: Implementing the European Green Deal in a time of recovery', co-authored by SYSTEMIQ and the Club of Rome.

Recycling is not sorted

Professor Edward Kosior, Managing Director of Nextek, argues the importance of shifting industry focus onto how sorted waste can be properly re-used.

Video

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.