Reprocessors

Two major groups representing plastics recyclers have developed a global definition of ‘plastics recyclability’ to eliminate confusion about what products can and cannot be recycled. 

As part of a new strategy on waste designed to meet higher EU targets, the city of Madrid is planning to introduce separate collection of organic waste and completely eliminate incineration.

The median gate fee paid by local authorities to send materials collected through the kerbside recycling system to materials recovery facilities has increased by 47 per cent since last year, according the Waste and Resources Action Programme.

Manchester-based Axion Recycling Ltd has been purchased in full by metal recycling firm S. Norton & Co.  

Plastics and food waste are among the topics that will be under the spotlight at this year’s Scottish Resources Conference, set to take place from 3-4 October in Edinburgh.

Clarissa Morawski, Managing Director of Reloop, makes the case for deposit return schemes in the fight against plastic waste.

UK plastic waste exports to Malaysia have tripled in the first four months of 2018 following China’s ban on 24 grades of solid waste at the start of the year, according to the latest HMRC figures.

From marine litter and the UK Plastics Pact to China’s waste ban and the future of waste and resources strategy, here are some of our key moments from a busy two days of discussion and debate at CIWM’s Resourcing the Future conference.

A new £3-million plastics recycling partnership aims to tackle Scotland’s packaging waste, which was recently revealed to cost local authorities more than £11 million a year.