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Rick Hindley
The importance of maintaining undisrupted kerbside recycling collections

Rick Hindley, Executive Director at Alupro, explores the possible implications of severe disruptions to UK recycling collections caused by Covid-19 and what it could mean for the aluminium packaging supply chain.

Jane Asscher, CEO of 23red
How brands can nudge sustainable behaviour post-coronavirus

On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Jane Asscher, CEO and Co-founder of behaviour change agency 23red, looks at how brands and businesses can help consumers to make sustainable choices in a post-coronavirus world.

Robbie Staniforth, Head of Policy at Ecosurety
How will Covid-19 affect producer responsibility in 2020?

As the coronavirus outbreak causes huge disruption, Robbie Staniforth, Head of Policy at Ecosurety, explores what this might mean for producer responsibility requirements in the coming year.

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.

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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
CIWM launches mentoring platform
CIWM launches mentoring platform

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has launched a new mentoring platform for its members to support skills and professional development.

WRAP receives $826k to tackle global food waste
WRAP receives £673k to tackle global food waste

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has been awarded $826,000 (£673,950) scale-up funding to “supercharge” action on global food loss.

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Vegware and Paper Round begin commercial compostable collections

Plant-based packaging company Vegware has teamed up with recycling company Paper Round to launch a compostable packaging collection service across London, Brighton and Sussex. 

Greenredeem calls on Defra to reconsider DRS
Greenredeem calls on Defra to reconsider DRS

Behaviour change company Greenredeem has called on Defra to reconsider its plans to roll out a deposit return scheme (DRS) for single-use beverage containers and invest instead in convenient recycling solutions that create ‘sustained behaviour change’.

Taking a dynamic approach to the future of waste collections
Taking a dynamic approach to the future of waste collections

Local governments and waste management companies have a wealth of digital technologies at their fingertips. Mark Abbas, Director of Business Development at cloud technology company AMCS, explains how smart approaches can be employed to improve waste collections efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions.

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Over half of HWRCs are open but disrupted, says survey

Over half of Household Waste and Recycling Centres (HWRCs) have now reopened, though with significant disruption, according to the latest Covid-19 local authority impacts survey, as the number of councils providing normal food waste and garden waste collection services increases.

Cardiff resumes recycling and food collection services
Cardiff to resume recycling and food collection services

Weekly kerbside collections for recyclables and food waste will resume service from 1 June, Cardiff City Council has announced. 

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New global waste standard to drive business circularity


A new global waste standard has been released by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to enable companies to track their waste generation and encourage a shift towards sustainable business practices.