Recycling

WasteAid, The Gambia

WasteAid secures £237K for African waste management programmes

WasteAid has announced a new partnership with global technology company, Veralto, securing $300,000 (£237,000) to support waste management initiatives in The Gambia and South Africa.

The partnership will primarily focus on expanding resource management operations in the Greater Banjul Area of The Gambia, with additional funding directed toward programmes in South Africa, as part of WasteAid’s First Step Resource Management Programme.

Scene at a Household Waste Recycling Centre where three people look at the camera next to a newly unveiled compartment for recycling used coffee pods

Coffee pod recycling service reaches 200 local authority sites

Three in ten UK households now have access to pod recycling points at waste and recycling centres

Two people sorting usable food at a foodbank in Hackney

North London community fund awards £168,111 to waste prevention projects

20 organisations receive grants to tackle waste streams through grassroots initiatives across seven boroughs

Man using smartphone app to use AI detection to claim a deposit on a returned paper coffee cup

AI app rewards paper cup recycling in Cardiff trial

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22 April 2025 |

National Cup Recycling Scheme trial rewards consumers for returning cups using vision-based artificial intelligence

Internal shot of empty industrial facility that is the basis for the battery plant in Plymouth, now under construction,

Altilium begins construction of UK's first at-scale EV battery recycling and refining plant

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| 17 April 2025 |

The clean technology group's Plymouth facility will process materials from 24,000 electric vehicles annually

7 Steel launches UK recycling operations following acquisition of Celsa Steel

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| 16 April 2025 |

Sev.en Global Investments acquires Celsa Steel UK operations, aiming to produce two million tonnes of steel annually using recycled materials

End of life cars stacked up in front of bales of metal

Trade bodies call for stronger recycled content targets in EU vehicle legislation

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| 15 April 2025 |

EuRIC and FEAD call for transparency and full-cost recovery in forthcoming End-of-Life Vehicle Regulations following auto manufacturers' €458 million cartel fine

Enviroo and Clearpoint Recycling teams

Ellesmere Port recycling plant secures plastics supply partner

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| 15 April 2025 |

The facility, set to open in 2027, will receive 30,000 tonnes of recyclable PET from Clearpoint Recycling to be turned into bottles

A box full of recovered vegetables and fruits from hypermarket waste

Waste intensity falling in EU, but member states advised to tighten regulation

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| 3 April 2025 |

The European Environment Agency report finds many countries overly reliant on voluntary measures and failing to utilise regulatory instruments to prevent rising waste volumes

Aluminium cans

Alupro and LARAC partner to boost aluminium recycling rates

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| 2 April 2025 |

The collaboration aims to enhance council recycling programs and improve household participation rates

Protos plastic recycling facility prototype (Enviroo)

PET recycling plant to begin construction in Ellesmere Port

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| 2 April 2025 |

Reichmuth Infrastructure investment in facility to reprocess wash and extrusion to produce new bottle packaging

Jeans with sewing equipment in pocket

London Textile Action Plan sets nine-point strategy for sustainable fashion

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| 2 April 2025 |

Cross-sector coalition unveils roadmap that outlines circular vision for capital’s £11 billion textile sector

Old Town of Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia

Tallinn becomes first European capital to seek zero waste certification

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| 27 March 2025 |

Estonian city joins Mission Zero Academy programme with ambitious waste reduction and recycling targets

Bins next to UK Parliament

England’s household recycling rate rises to 44 per cent

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| 27 March 2025 |

Latest figures for 2023/24 reverses recent decline, but still remains below pre-pandemic levels

Clothes on hangers

EU requires ‘systemic shift’ for its Textiles Strategy to tackle rising consumption

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| 26 March 2025 |

The clothing, footwear, and household fabrics industries are the fifth largest consumer of raw materials, water and land, and produced over 159 million tonnes of CO2 in 2022

Rescue me - recycle campaign

Recycle Week 2024: 2.9 million people changed their recycling habits

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| 26 March 2025 |

WRAP’s ‘Rescue Me - Recycle’ campaign reached 7.3 million people and increased the capture rate of commonly binned recyclables

Loading scrap metal into electric arc furnace

EU proposes export restrictions as 19M tonnes of metal scrap leave Europe annually

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| 21 March 2025 |

The European Steel and Metals Action Plan aims to increase demand for recycled metals while preventing valuable resources from flowing to third countries

Plastic recycling conveyor belt

Europe’s plastic recycling industry is ‘at a breaking point’

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| 20 March 2025 |

Plastics Recyclers Europe warns of plant closures and falling domestic production as imports rise and economic pressures mount

The Indaver team with Anssar Khan, Head of strategic projects at Syngenta Huddersfield

Indaver announces plans for solvent recycling facility in Huddersfield

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| 19 March 2025 |

The industrial waste recycling plant will aim to recover acetonitrile as part of £750 million investment into UK industry

Car battery

Altilium produces first UK EV battery cells from recycled materials

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| 18 March 2025 |

Collaboration between clean technology firm partners and UKBIC demonstrates “full battery circularity” using recovered cathode materials from end-of-life vehicles

Ben Hardman, Founder of Tiny Eco

Coca-Cola's ‘masterclass in greenwashing’ shows corporates can’t be relied on

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Ben Hardman, Founder of Tiny Eco

| 18 March 2025 |

Ben Hardman, Founder of Tiny Eco, examines ‘world’s biggest plastic polluter’s’ retreat from its sustainability targets, highlighting plastic waste impact and failed commitments

UK shipping port

Environment Agency makes arrests for £747,000 recycling credit fraud

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| 13 March 2025 |

A 45-year-old and 43-year-old have been released on bail as part of ongoing investigation into illegal recycling export paperwork scheme

Waste landfill

€3.19B waste funding 'falling short' for decarbonising parts of Europe

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| 11 March 2025 |

Zero Waste Europe analysis finds current budget allocations insufficient for central and eastern European countries, despite 39 per cent increase in waste management funding

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