A round up of news from the waste and resources industry, including Monitoring Recyclates for Europe, Bright Green Plastics, INEOS, DS Smith and J&B Recycling.
Tesco publishes its food waste data for the eighth year, revealing the supermarket and its international suppliers have cut 200,000 tonnes of food waste from their combined operations.
Global food waste report names the UK an exemplar in the growing challenge to hit Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, as Food Waste Reduction Roadmap exceeds 210 food businesses.
OPRL hopes to reduce confusion and inconsistency with its new recyclability certification scheme, ‘Certified As Recyclable’, in collaboration with RECOUP.
The UK should price emissions from waste disposal, including landfill and incineration, to help reach the country’s target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to a new white paper by the Zero Carbon Campaign.
64 per cent of UK residents would like to see manufacturers pay for recycling instead of local authorities, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by UK waste management company Viridor.
50 per cent of plastic used in Coca-Cola’s core portfolio in Great Britain is now recycled, but the company calls for better designed DRS in order to achieve an entirely circular recycling scheme.
This year, Recycle Week 2020 (21-27 September) will celebrate the British public’s commitment to recycling during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, with research showing that nearly nine in ten households ‘regularly recycle’.
Dr Antonio Espingardeiro, IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers member, describes how robots and AI are revolutionising the recycling sector.
Two former directors of an Essex waste site have been fined £22,000 and £19,000 for exceeding waste permit and disposing the wrong type of waste into a landfill.
A new report ‘Talking Trash’ has accused multinational companies, including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Mars, of hypocrisy for their part in the plastic crisis.
The final survey from The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) on the impacts of Covid-19 on local authority waste services in England shows services continuing to return to normal, though disruption continues.
A round up of news from the waste and resources industry, including London Waste and Recycling Board, Prince Charles, Valpak, Acumen Waste Services and Recresco
Zero Waste Scotland has announced that Scotland’s waste-related carbon emissions for 2018 have fallen to 30 per cent below the 2011 baseline, but warns there is still ‘more to be done’ to reach the net-zero greenhouse gases target by 2045.
Developing sustainable fabrics, boosting textile recycling and bringing textile manufacturing jobs back to the UK are some of the key recommendations put forward in a new parliamentary report compiled by behaviour change charity Hubbub on sustainable fashion.
