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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.

Andy Garside, Group Technical Waste Manager at Adler and Allan
Navigating waste regulations for businesses

Are you disposing of your business’ waste compliantly? Andy Garside, Group Technical Waste Manager at environmental risk reduction company Adler and Allan, discusses the impact that non-compliant waste management can have on businesses.

Sadie Westwood, Business Director at 23red.
The recipe for success: The behavioural nudges needed to combat food waste

Sadie Westwood, Business Director at creative agency 23red, discusses how communications campaigns should make use of nudges and targeted messaging to encourage people to waste less food.

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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
Baled RDF ready to export
Exports of RDF from England fall once again

Exports of refuse derived fuel (RDF) and solid recovered fuel (SRF) from England fell by 13.5 per cent in 2019 as markets continue to tighten.

Egbert Taylor bins, one with wet paint the other powder-coated.
Egbert Taylor switches to low-carbon powder bin coating

Egbert Taylor has become the first waste container refurbishment specialist in the UK to replace the wet paint process with powder coating as standard in a bid to minimise its environmental impact and enhance the finish of its refurbished bins.

Novamont's new Mater-Bi cling film
Novamont launches Mater-Bi cling film

Italian compostable bioplastics manufacturer Novamont has developed a new cling film made from its Mater-Bi bioplastic. 

Cheshire East Council's refuse collection vehicles
Cheshire East Council secures funding for hydrogen refuse vehicles

Cheshire East Council has partnered with Storengy to secure funding towards a £1 million scheme for hydrogen-powered refuse vehicles.

A volunteer fixing an item at a repair café
UK repair cafés to take part in nationwide Big Fix event

75 repair cafés around the country will be running simultaneous community events as part of the UK’s largest nationwide repair project this Saturday.  

Bristol's bio-methane powered buses
Bio-methane buses rolled out across Bristol

First West of England is launching a fleet of 77 bio-methane powered buses in Bristol, drawing fuel from a new £2-million gas filling station at the company’s Lawrence Hill depot. 

Volunteers recording litter on the Plastic Patrol app
Community clean-up report highlights extent of single-use litter

Non-profit Plastic Patrol has published the initial findings from a study into single-use litter in the UK, revealing that 83 per cent of litter recorded over a nine-month period was plastic. 

Vegware's compostable coffee cups
WRAP publishes compostable packaging guidance

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has published new guidance to address confusion around compostable packaging.