Black Friday has come around again – the annual sales event where retailers offer huge savings during extended opening hours, tempting shoppers to brave the crowds to get the best deals on items they didn’t know they wanted, contributing to throwaway culture and landfill waste.
Now, organisations like Greenpeace and Make Friday Green Again are promoting actions against excessive consumerism, encouraging would-be shoppers to bring communities together and get creative by making,... More
Environmental compliance scheme Ecosurety has launched a £1 million fund to support projects tackling the environmental impacts of packaging, batteries or waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
A former Northumberland-based recycling business and its director have been ordered to pay £54,365 in fines after being found guilty of breaching waste regulations.
Environment Agency household WEEE collection figures for the second quarter of 2019 show that the UK is falling far behind its WEEE collection target for 2019.
A survey of 5,000 UK householders suggests thousands of tonnes of repairable appliances go to landfill each year as people don’t know what to do with them when they break.
New figures from the Royal Society of Chemistry reveal that more than half of UK households have at least one unused electrical device, with 82 per cent having no plans to recycle or sell on their devices.
A new EU regulation requires that online retailers take responsibility for compliance documentation on electrical items if there is no appointed manufacturers’ representative.
The Nigerian Government is hoping to kick off a circular economy for electronic products with support from the Global Environmental Facility and UN Environment.
Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has launched an inquiry into the environmental and human health impacts of electronic waste (e-waste) and the opportunities for the circular economy for electronic goods.
Teresa Arbuckle, Chair of the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances (AMDEA), weighs up how reuse and recycling of WEEE affects collection targets
The French Government is set to ban the destruction of unsold non-food goods as part of new legislation on the circular economy, though concerns have been raised that it does not go far enough.
Compliance scheme Valpak has won Shropshire Council’s tender for the collection and treatment of household waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
