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Construction waste: ‘Out of site’, out of mind?
Construction waste: ‘Out of site’, out of mind?

With plastics waste hogging the headlines, Allan Sandilands, Senior Consultant at Resource Futures, shines a light on construction waste – the ‘silent sector’ that has slipped under the radar at a time of heightened focus on waste and resources

The recyclability of... plastic added envelopes
Can you recycle... plastic-padded envelopes

Bubble wrap-lined envelopes are a staple of every office, but can this form of packaging be effectively recycled, or should alternatives be found?

A sideways view: They don't know what you put in your bin... yet
A sideways view: They don't know what you put in your bin... yet

Ray Georgeson wonders how the media might encourage more serious recycling.

Single-use plastics: Fiddling while Rome burns...
Single-use plastics: Fiddling while Rome burns...

With single-use plastic products increasingly under the spotlight, Jessica Baker, Managing Director of Chase Plastics Ltd., asks whether government and industry are guilty of looking the wrong way in the fight against plastic pollution

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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
Homeless man dies after sleeping in bin

A homeless man died after suffering leg and pelvis injuries from getting stuck in a refuse truck, an investigation has concluded.

John Lewis to reduce waste by buying back unwanted clothing

A new app, developed in partnership with Stuffstr, will enable customers to sell their clothes back to John Lewis to be reused or recycled.

174,000 tonnes of plastic packaging lost annually in Kenyan environment
174,000 tonnes of plastic packaging lost annually in Kenyan environment

Report estimates that in Kenya 174,000 tonnes of packaging is either taken to illegal dump sites or left in the environment every year.

HSE sets out health and safety solutions for waste sector

A new report into health and safety in the waste and recycling sector has underlined a need for better safety management to combat the disproportionate levels of fatal injury in the industry.

Five things we learned at Resourcing the Future 2018
Five things we learned at Resourcing the Future 2018

From marine litter and the UK Plastics Pact to China’s waste ban and the future of waste and resources strategy, here are some of our key moments from a busy two days of discussion and debate at CIWM’s Resourcing the Future conference.

Recycled plastic could supply 71 per cent of UK demand, new report finds

A new report by Green Alliance finds that £1.7 billion worth of plastics, food and electronics are lost to the UK economy each year because UK collection systems do not enable domestic reuse or recycling.

Wolverhampton latest council to cut food waste collections
Wolverhampton latest council to cut food waste collections

The City of Wolverhampton will stop its food waste collection service completely by the end of June, apparently as a money-saving measure.

Spain taken to EU court for waste management failures
Spain taken to EU court for waste management failures

The European Commission is referring Spain to the European Court of Justice after repeated calls to establish waste management plans went unanswered.