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Who's really responsible for litter?

Victoria Hutchin, Associate Waste & Resource Management Consultant at WYG, assesses how extended producer responsibility reforms could impact how we deal with litter.

Vegware applaud the University of Plymouth’s research on biodegradable carrier bags.
Cut the confusion on compostables

Lucy Frankel, Communications Director at compostable packaging manufacturer Vegware, applauds the University of Plymouth’s research on biodegradable carrier bags – it’s a timely reminder that each material can only be recycled in its correct facility.

Consulting the days away
Consulting the days away

Eunomia Chairman Dominic Hogg welcomes the release of four government consultations on packaging waste and recycling – but will a lack of joined-up thinking impede the creation of a coherent final system?

Stewart McGrenary
Blockchain: the future of WEEE recycling?

Stewart McGrenary, founder and managing director of electronics recycling company Plunc, discusses the potential for blockchain to revolutionise how we deal with e-waste.

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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
A mountain of electronic waste
$15m initiative to boost e-waste recycling in Nigeria

The Nigerian Government is hoping to kick off a circular economy for electronic products with support from the Global Environmental Facility and UN Environment.

Rolls of paper in a paper mill
European paper recycling rate falls as export markets tighten

The European paper recycling rate has fallen by 0.8 per cent in 2018, largely due to a sizeable fall in exports of paper for recycling, according to the Confederation of European Paper Industries.

A pile of waste wood for reuse or recycling
A year of success for Community Wood Recycling

Social enterprise Community Wood Recycling has rescued over 20,000 tonnes of waste wood from landfill in 2018/19, according to the organisation’s annual report.

The front page of the report by Zero Waste Scotland
Scottish consumers spend £600 million annually on single-use packaging

Consumers in Scotland are spending £600 million on more than 300,000 tonnes of single use packaging for their groceries every year, according to Zero Waste Scotland. 

Food waste
Exeter to introduce food waste collections

Exeter City Council has announced plans to introduce kerbside collections for glass and food recycling.

 

A truck disposing of residual waste in a landfill site.
CCC urges biodegradable landfill ban as carbon reduction efforts stall

The Committee on Climate Change says the UK should bring forward a ban on biodegradable waste to landfill to 2025 after a new report published by the Committee revealed the UK to be ‘lagging far behind’ on efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Bananas with the It's Fresh! filters
UK technology to reduce banana waste makes its way to Ecuador

UK food technology company It’s Fresh! has signed an agreement with the Ecuadorian banana association, ACORBANEC, to increase the use of its innovative technology which prolongs the green life of bananas. 

Piles of waste wood at Geminor recycling site
Business in Brief – 11/07/19

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including Geminor, Reconomy, Stantec and Recycling Technologies.