The Western Riverside Waste Authority (WRWA) has today (14 June) announced the launch of a new booking system and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology at one of its London recycling centres.
Resource spoke to Anna Queralt Fuentes, Engagement Manager at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF), about the newly released Circular Design Toolkit and the wider implications of circular design.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has launched a toolkit to assist manufacturers and designers in developing products with a minimal environmental impact.
A pilot project by packaging company Dow aims to collect and recycle Nigeria’s plastic waste, diverting around 300 million plastic waste sachets away from landfill.
A report released by WWF and the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) yesterday (1 July) outlines the measures that need to be taken within the EU to halve food waste by 2030, in accordance with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13.1.
Resource management company Geminor has signed a contract with Danish energy-from-waste company ARC to provide low-carbon refuse-derived fuel to the Copenhagen region.
The Covid-19 pandemic has raised urgent questions about public health and hygiene in almost every sector of society, with packaging no exception. With consumers and retailers turning back to single-use for hygiene reasons, what does the future hold for reusables? Olivia Rutherford investigates.
The second round of the Welsh Government’s £6.5-million Circular Economy Fund has been launched to support a green recovery post-coronavirus and address the climate emergency.
The Welsh Government has announced that it has ‘widened the scope’ of its £6.5-million Circular Economy Fund to help the Welsh economy become “more resilient” as it responds to the coronavirus pandemic.
Researchers at UK-based Glass Technology Services will lead a project identifying opportunities to turn waste materials into new feedstocks for products in the glass, ceramic and cement industries.
The Reuse Network has published its 2019 Social Impact Report, revealing that its member organisations reused 3.7 million furniture and electrical items in 2019.
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.
