Recycling news: 2024

Council news Register to vote - Dudley Council News Dudley Council · 5 Mar 2024 Industry news Testing rules require car makers to ditch touchscreen for physical buttons for top rating - Engineering and Technology Magazine E&T Magazine (IET) · 5 Mar 2024 Industry news Renewi ensures more and better recycling with new state of the art plastic sorting plant - Renewi Renewi · 5 Mar 2024 Policy & government State of Sustainability Report 2023 - Sustainability Victoria Sustainability Victoria · 5 Mar 2024 Council news Contact details - Cheshire East Council Cheshire East Council · 5 Mar 2024 Council news Committee appendix - Empowering People, Strengthening Communities - Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Kingston upon Thames Council · 5 Mar 2024 Policy & government Consumer products: your safety and protection Information and resources. GOV.UK · 5 Mar 2024 Council news Sunderland Weight Management Programme - Sunderland City Council Sunderland Council · 4 Mar 2024 Policy & government Changes to member contributions in the NHS Pension Scheme, 2024 Report on changes to member contribution rates and the earning thresholds at which rates become payable. GOV.UK · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Net-zero networks: Can mobile operators decouple growth from emissions? With the number of global mobile connections rising each year and ever more data being shared digitally, will mobile network operators be able to decouple growth from emissions and achieve net-zero by 2050? edie — Circular Economy tag · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Human activity pushes Earth’s freshwater resources beyond pre-industrial limits Analysis of global freshwater resources has revealed alarming trends, indicating that human activity has dramatically altered the Earth's freshwater cycle. Open Access Government — Environment · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news International Women’s Day 2024 – enfinium STEM stories Stories from our team ahead of International Women's Day 2024. enfinium · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news It’s Now for Nature Campaign The post It’s Now for Nature Campaign appeared first on Reconomy . Reconomy · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Viridor seeks permit for carbon capture at UK’s largest EfW Viridor has announced that it has submitted an environmental permit application to install carbon capture and storage technology at its Runcorn energy from waste (EfW) facility. Viridor’s Runcorn plant is the largest EfW plant in the UK by capacity. It is able to process 1.1 million tonnes of waste per year. The company explained that … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Altilium partners with Nissan for UK Government backed multimillion-pound Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Project Nissan-led program aims to close the loop on a UK EV battery supply chain. Altilium, a UK-based clean technology group focused on supporting the transition to net zero, is pleased to announce details of a pioneering new collaborative project led by Nissan, which will see the two companies working together to improve the sustainability of [...] Altilium news · 4 Mar 2024 Global Toxic-free Europe now! To Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission; Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament; Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo Belgian Presidency of the […] European Environmental Bureau · 4 Mar 2024 Policy & government Y S Soo v PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Pricewaterhouse Coopers Services Ltd: 1401699/2022 Employment Tribunal decision. GOV.UK · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Defra ‘remains committed’ to DRS amid reports of delay to 2028 Defra has said it “remains committed” to the deposit return scheme (DRS) following reports in the national media of a delay, which, if true, would see the scheme delayed until 2028. The I newspaper claimed that ministers had put a halt to the DRS, due for October 2025, instead pushing the implementation “until 2028”, quoting … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Alfred H Knight extends waste composition services to cover international markets Alfred H Knight has announced that it has expanded its waste analysis capabilities to cater for international markets. Through waste analysis, end users can understand the types and quantities of items being disposed of within their waste streams, including waste wood. By doing this, they can inform recycling campaigns and improvements to waste-handling activities, helping […] Wood Recyclers Association · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news UK to establish “world’s first” UN-backed centre for circular economy research The UK will establish the “world’s first” United Nations-backed International Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management in the Circular Economy, Resources Minister Robbie Moore has announced. The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) will support the establishment of the centre in the UK, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) […] Circular Online (CIWM) · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Are you meeting your legal duties under RPS 291? Waste and recycling firms are being urged to check whether they are meeting their legal duties under RPS 291 – including sharing test results with the WRA – as active compliance checks by the Environment Agency kick in. Under Regulatory Position Statement 291, introduced in November 2023, operators who handle certain kinds of potentially hazardous […] Wood Recyclers Association · 4 Mar 2024 Global 4evergreen launches new Ambassadorship programme 4evergreen is hitting the conference floors! This year, the alliance has launched a new Ambassadorship programme that will take us to major packaging and sustainability events, to spread the word about our circularity toolkit for fibre-based packaging. The goal of the programme is to promote... 4evergreen (fibre packaging alliance) · 4 Mar 2024 Policy & government Chevening Celebrates 40 Years in the Philippines with Award Ceremony The UK’s prestigious Chevening Scholarship programme celebrated its 40th anniversary with the Filipino Chevening community on 29 February 2024, hosted by Deputy Ambassador Alistair White and the British Embassy Manila. GOV.UK · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news OPINION: ‘Achieving waste and recycling targets through a zero-waste approach’ In this opinion piece, Chris Williams, the chief executive of waste software company ISB Global, discusses how the government’s “uphill battle” to meet the next decade’s waste and recycling targets. OPINION: According to recent government statistics, the volume of waste recycled by local authorities in England decreased by eight percentage points between 2022 and 2023. … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news UN warns of 56% rise in waste volumes by 2050 without ‘urgent action’ A report from the United Nations Environment Programme has warned that municipal solid waste generation is estimated to grow by 56% to 3.8 billion tonnes by 2050 if urgent action is not taken. Published last week (28 February) the report from the organisation warns that as populations and economies grow, particularly in Central and South … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Recycling firm fined £300,000 after man killed by shovel loader Welsh recycling company Atlantic Recycling has been fined £300,000 after a father-of-two was killed by a shovel loader in 2019. Circular Online (CIWM) · 4 Mar 2024 Policy & government New laws to crack down on online prison content New laws will see harmful content filmed inside prisons removed from social media platforms more quickly – shielding victims from further trauma and protecting prison security. GOV.UK · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Suffolk consults on relocating HWRC to build split-level site Suffolk county council and its waste and recycling partner, FCC Environment, have invited the public to share their opinions on a proposal to relocate the Portman’s Walk recycling centre due to growing demand. Under the plans, the recycling centre will be relocated around a mile away to Whittle Road in the Hadleigh Road industrial estate … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Atlantic Recycling responds after £300,000 fine over worker death Following an announcement from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) last week that it has been fined £300,000 over the death of a worker in 2019, Atlantic Recycling said it has ‘reviewed and heightened’ its health and safety measures.* A statement from the HSE last week explained that on 4 September 2019, 59-year-old Barry-based Anthony … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news A water industry shake up could be a blueprint for the wider economy This post is by Guy Thompson, group sustainability director at Wessex Water and managing director of EnTrade, a not-for-profit Wessex Water business. The privatised water industry model is under unprecedented scrutiny. Politicians from all parties are competing to talk tough about water companies and, with […] Green Alliance blog (Inside Track) · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Firm uses AI and waste plastic to print ‘works of art’ A start-up company is combining the use of AI technology, 3D printing and post-consumer waste to create what it terms […] Recolight · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news 3D printing firm will buy back its downlights A UK firm which prints its downlight range in bio-plastics says it will buy back its luminaires at the end […] Recolight · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Eighty Thousand Taking Part in UK’s Largest Plastic Waste Survey Nationwide, across all 650 parliamentary constituencies, 80,000 participants have already signed up for The Big Plastic Count 2024, including over 10,000 school classes. They have committed to counting a week’s plastic waste as part of the UK’s largest waste survey starting next week. Greenpeace UK · 4 Mar 2024 Council news REPRESENTATIONS TO BASINGSTOKE AND DEANE: LOCAL PLAN UPDATE (REGULATION 18 CONSULTATION) - Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council Basingstoke and Deane Council · 4 Mar 2024 Council news Archived News: Sign up now to get full year of garden waste collections - Big Blue Door North Kesteven Council · 4 Mar 2024 Council news Asbestos - Stroud District Council Stroud Council · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Lamp launches circular lighting service Spanish luminaire giant Lamp has unveiled a light renewal and upgrading service aimed at promoting what it terms ‘a genuine […] Recolight · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news Bring Library of Things to Catford - Library of Things Library of Things · 4 Mar 2024 Industry news The UK’s most sustainable, technologically advanced fridge recycling plant - EMR Group Limited EMR (European Metal Recycling) · 4 Mar 2024 Policy & government LA Welfare Direct bulletins: 2019 These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information, that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff. 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