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Solar Panel Recycling
The Challenges of Solar Panel Recycling

​​Solar panel recycling is becoming a real challenge. Critical to the UK’s net zero strategy, solar energy is a lasting and sustainable option for businesses and households, and it is growing fast.

Waste sofa for collection
Environment Agency POPs enforcement stops council sofa collections

The new regulations came into effect on 1 January 2023 and prevent disposal through landfilling due to pollutants in many soft furnishings

Middlesbrough
Battery recycling plant joins lithium ventures in Middlesbrough

Altilium Metals has received £3 million in Government funding for the project

Transparent wood
Transparent wood offers a sustainable alternative to plastic, study shows
By
Savannah Coombe
| 9 November 2022 |
The wood, made by replacing lignin with epoxy, has been identified as suitable for large-scale production
Road soil sweeper
New project aims to repurpose waste soil from road sweepings
By
Savannah Coombe
| 25 October 2022 |
It will measure levels of organic pollutants and metals found in waste soil
Construction and demolition waste
Scottish Government launches consultation on devolved tax
By
Savannah Coombe
| 28 September 2022 |
The plan aims to support circularity in the country’s construction industry
Battery Mountain
WasteCare accepts revised battery classification guidance
By
Amelia Kelly
| 2 September 2022 |
The clarification may improve the recycling of on-lead acid portable batteries 
MiAlgae Biotech Startup
Biotechnology startup MiAlgae awarded £2.3m in private investment
By
Savannah Coombe
| 26 August 2022 |
The startup has developed biotechnology to produce a sustainable source of omega-3 from algae
Construction
Study reveals essential role of circular economy in net-zero goals
By
Savannah Coombe
| 12 August 2022 |
UKGBC: The construction industry would benefit from more consistent measurement of circular practices
concrete
Materials Processing Institute leads £6.5m cement and steel project
By
Amelia Kelly
| 28 July 2022 |
Electricity may eliminate the carbon emissions associated with cement and steel production
biomass
European Parliament calls for better regulation of energy from biomass
By
Amelia Kelly
| 13 July 2022 |
The measures aim to reduce distortion of the raw material market and environmental impacts
HWRC
LARAC: Defra claims in DIY waste consultation are ‘misleading’
By
Emma Love
| 21 June 2022 |
In a statement, the organisation said that removing charges for household DIY wastes will see taxpayers absorb the costs
Circular Lighting Live
Recolight announces Circular Lighting Live event
By
Emma Love
| 25 May 2022 |
The event aims to bring together stakeholders to share insights on the future of the industry
EU parliament
MEPs push for reduction of harmful chemicals in waste
By
Emma Love
| 5 May 2022 |
The European Parliament has adopted its negotiation position for new rules on POPs, calling for stricter limits
HWRC
Government proposes end to DIY waste charges
By
Emma Love
| 11 April 2022 |
LARAC has warned that this moves away from the polluter pays principle, shifting costs to the taxpayer
Incinerator
IPCC report calls for critical climate action to achieve 1.5C
By
Emma Love
| 6 April 2022 |
The body says that ‘all sectors’ have options to ‘at least halve emissions by 2030’
Construction
EMF launches circular buildings toolkit
By
Emma Love
| 15 March 2022 |
The resource aims to create ‘a global bank of knowledge’ for the industry
Polystyrene
First advanced polystyrene recycling plant in Europe announced
By
Kai Malloy
| 29 November 2021 |
The Swindon facility will see INEOS Styrolution and Recycling Technologies collaborate
Wet wipes
Wet wipe mound length of two tennis courts located on Thames riverbed
By
Kai Malloy
| 24 November 2021 |
The identification of the waste comes amidst proposals for a new ‘super sewer’
Critical raw material mining
Report outlines circular strategy for critical raw materials
By
Kai Malloy
| 23 November 2021 |
It details the need to recycle and recover elements used in renewable infrastructure
Robert Green holding aggregate
Business in Brief – 07/10/21
By
Emma Love
| 7 October 2021 |
A round up of business news from the waste and resource management sectors
Coffee pods
Nestle and Jacobs Douwe Egberts launch coffee pod recycling scheme
By Resource |
15 April 2021 |
A number of local authorities will begin or have begun trialling the kerbside collection scheme 
White plastic sachet
Survey finds majority supports ban on single-use sachets
By
Ilia Hionidou
| 8 April 2021 |
Prevalent in the personal care industry, sample sachets prove almost impossible to recycle, and are the most common branded plastic waste pollutant