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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.

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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

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Battery recycling plant joins lithium ventures in Middlesbrough

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

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Transparent wood offers a sustainable alternative to plastic, study shows
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Savannah Coombe
| 9 November 2022 |
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The wood, made by replacing lignin with epoxy, has been identified as suitable for large-scale production
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New project aims to repurpose waste soil from road sweepings
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Savannah Coombe
| 25 October 2022 |
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It will measure levels of organic pollutants and metals found in waste soil
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Scottish Government launches consultation on devolved tax
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| 28 September 2022 |
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The plan aims to support circularity in the country’s construction industry
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| 2 September 2022 |
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The clarification may improve the recycling of on-lead acid portable batteries 
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| 26 August 2022 |
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| 12 August 2022 |
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UKGBC: The construction industry would benefit from more consistent measurement of circular practices
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| 28 July 2022 |
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Electricity may eliminate the carbon emissions associated with cement and steel production
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| 13 July 2022 |
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| 21 June 2022 |
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| 25 May 2022 |
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MEPs push for reduction of harmful chemicals in waste
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| 5 May 2022 |
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The European Parliament has adopted its negotiation position for new rules on POPs, calling for stricter limits
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| 11 April 2022 |
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| 6 April 2022 |
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The body says that ‘all sectors’ have options to ‘at least halve emissions by 2030’
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| 15 March 2022 |
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The resource aims to create ‘a global bank of knowledge’ for the industry
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Kai Malloy
| 29 November 2021 |
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The Swindon facility will see INEOS Styrolution and Recycling Technologies collaborate
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Wet wipe mound length of two tennis courts located on Thames riverbed
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| 24 November 2021 |
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The identification of the waste comes amidst proposals for a new ‘super sewer’
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Report outlines circular strategy for critical raw materials
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| 23 November 2021 |
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| 7 October 2021 |
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A round up of business news from the waste and resource management sectors
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Nestle and Jacobs Douwe Egberts launch coffee pod recycling scheme
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15 April 2021 |
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A number of local authorities will begin or have begun trialling the kerbside collection scheme 
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Survey finds majority supports ban on single-use sachets
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Ilia Hionidou
| 8 April 2021 |
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Prevalent in the personal care industry, sample sachets prove almost impossible to recycle, and are the most common branded plastic waste pollutant
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