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An image of a reusable coffee cup

Refill movement expands to coffee and hot food

Plastic pollution campaign group City to Sea has announced that the Refill movement, which encourages people to use a refillable water bottle, is launching a new pilot with retailers including Costa Coffee, Morrisons and LEON that will show consumers where they can refill their coffee cups and lunch boxes.

An image of a costa coffee cup

Costa Coffee expands partnership with Too Good To Go

Food waste app Too Good To Go, which links customers with surplus restaurant food, is now operating in 100 Costa Coffee stores across the UK.

A plastic bottle with the 'tag and trace' technology

Trial of ‘tag and trace’ recycling technology launched

A trial to test Polytag’s new ‘tag and trace’ recycling technology has been launched today in Wirral.

WasteCare is designing a new waste management app

Business in Brief - 24/10/19

By

Imogen Benson

| 24 October 2019 |

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including Winnow, Collard Group, Novamont, ACE and WasteCare.

Anthesis Vastum team awarded £500,000

Government invests £1 million in smart waste tracking to tackle waste crime

By

Tansy Dando

| 22 October 2019 |

Anthesis and Topolytics are set to each receive £500,000 of funding as part of the government’s GovTech Catalyst fund, which supports the development of innovative solutions for public sector challenges.

BigChange fuels Quest Waste Management growth with software solution

BigChange fuels Quest Waste Management growth with software solution

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BigChange

| 15 October 2019 |

Quest Waste Management, a domestic and commercial cleaning company specialising in serving the drainage industry, has embarked on an ambitious expansion drive following the implementation of BigChange’s mobile workforce management system JobWatch.

Waste food on plate

Too Good To Go app helps restaurants prevent 2,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions

By

Tansy Dando

| 1 October 2019 |

Food waste fighting app Too Good To Go has announced that it has helped save one million meals from waste nationwide, preventing an estimated 2,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Pennotec's Doctor Hughes with pool clarifier produced from waste seafood

Welsh tech firm turning waste shells into swimming pool cleaner

By

Tansy Dando

| 1 October 2019 |

Welsh technology firm, Pennotec, is developing ways to divert food waste from landfill, transforming seafood shells into water purification products.

Apples at a fruit farm

Asda trialling fruit preservation technology

By

Imogen Benson

| 5 September 2019 |

Californian fruit preservation company Apeel Sciences has announced that it is trialling its edible fruit coating technology in Asda, to reduce the amount of fruit and vegetables thrown away.

Tailings left behind after mining operations.

Engineering competition to transform waste mining materials into glass

By

Ennomotive

| 5 September 2019 |

Ennomotive has launched an engineering competition to find new ways of reprocessing waste mining materials into glass.

SmartWaste software will now be linked with Reconomy

Reconomy and BRE strike software connection

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Reconomy

| 3 September 2019 |

Outsourced waste management and recycling services provider Reconomy will use API technology to link its customer portal with BRE’s SmartWaste software.

Close-up of the metal on a circuit board

Rare earth metal recycling project launched at Birmingham University

By

Tansy Dando

| 13 August 2019 |

Birmingham University has launched a pilot to recover rare earth metals from gadgets, with the help of EU Horizon 2020 funding.

£40m glass research facility to boost innovation in sector

£40m glass research facility to boost innovation in sector

By

| 27 June 2019 |

A new £40-million research facility that will include the first experimental glass furnace is set to be built in St Helens to boost innovation in the glass manufacturing sector.

Image of coffee grounds

Revive Eco: Can coffee waste replace palm oil?

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| 31 May 2019 |

Glasgow-based Revive Eco wants to make coffee “the world’s first sustainable commodity” by extracting versatile oils from used coffee grounds. We spoke to co-founder Fergus Moore to find out more.

An image of wild sea mussels, which could be used to filter microplastics out of the water

Mussel filters and fungus recycling: Five projects win £1m to tackle plastic waste

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| 20 May 2019 |

From ‘ghost fishing net’ trackers to fungus-based ‘bio-recycling’, five innovative projects have won funding from Plan Plastic, an initiative from Waitrose & Partners and Hubbub.

Carbios' enzyme technology reduces PET plastic waste to its original building blocks.

Global firms back enzyme plastic waste solution

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| 30 April 2019 |

In a world first, key global stakeholders including Nestlé and PepsiCo are backing new enzymatic technology in a bid to boost the recyclability of PET plastic products.

Bühler's PolyVision technology in use at STF Recycling's recycling plant.

Waste sector cleans up at Queen’s Awards

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| 23 April 2019 |

Technology company Bühler UK Ltd and litter collection tool company The Helping Hand Company have been awarded Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in the fields of Innovation and International Trade.

Partnership brings UK step closer to first waste-to-hydrogen plant

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| 17 April 2019 |

PowerHouse Energy, the developer of waste-to-hydrogen technology, has signed an agreement for engineering services with Waste2Tricity.

Products from the Global Change Award winners

Five innovative companies turning fashion circular

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| 5 April 2019 |

Five companies have scooped a share of €1 million from H&M’s Global Change Award 2019, which supports businesses reducing textile waste or making clothing more sustainable.

Some of the types of plastic that will be accepted in the Tesco stores

Tesco trials recycling scheme for soft plastic packaging

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| 2 April 2019 |

Tesco has launched a new collection scheme for hard-to-recycle plastics in partnership with Swindon reprocessing company Recycling Technologies.

Household waste disposal solution enters technical trials

Household waste disposal solution enters technical trials

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| 15 March 2019 |

The HERU (Home Energy Resource Unit), a new domestic waste disposal appliance found to be less impactful in terms of CO2 emissions than more traditional waste collection methods by environmental consultants Ricardo Energy and Environment, has gone out for technical trials this month.

Hot 100 2019 winner Cat Fletcher

Hot 100 2019: Reuse champion Cat Fletcher named as 2019’s Legend of Waste

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| 7 March 2019 |

The top 10 in Resource’s annual list of influencers, the Hot 100, has been announced, with Cat Fletcher, Reuse Manager at Brighton and Hove City Council and co-founder of reuse network Freegle, taking the top spot.

Dsposal's Developer Georgios Rovolis, CEO Tom Passmore and COO Sophie Walker

Dsposal wins £80k government waste crime contract

By

| 20 February 2019 |

Manchester-based compliance start-up Dsposal has been awarded a contract worth £80,000 to develop a smart waste tracking system to combat waste crime across the UK.

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