Recycling news: 2022

Industry news BMRA calls for ban on batteries in household bins The British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA) has called for the government to ban households from putting waste electricals and lithium-ion batteries in their kerbside recycling and residual waste bins. The association, which represents more than 280 businesses within the UK’s £7 billion metal recycling sector, said the government should instead instruct councils to carry out … Read More The… letsrecycle.com News · 15 Nov 2022 Industry news World Cup 2022 The post World Cup 2022 appeared first on Alupro . Alupro · 15 Nov 2022 Industry news World Cup 2022 Welsh language versions The post World Cup 2022 Welsh language versions appeared first on Alupro . Alupro · 15 Nov 2022 Industry news Thai Roadmap in Plastic Waste Will Reeder, International Account Manager outlines Thailand’s ‘Roadmap on Plastic Waste Management', an ambitious path to sustainable plastic use in Thailand. Valpak · 15 Nov 2022 Industry news Indaver starts construction of Rivenhall EfW plant EXCLUSIVE: Indaver has started construction of its Rivenhall energy from waste (EfW) plant in Essex with engineering specialist Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) commencing piling works on the site last month. The Belgian waste management company is building the £500 million, 595,000 tonnes per year capacity EfW plant as part of an ‘integrated waste management facility’. … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Nov 2022 Industry news ESA survey ‘positive’ but ‘attention’ on mental health needed The Environmental Services Association (ESA) has published the results of its health and safety survey, which showed that 95% of respondents feel comfortable in raising safety concerns. However, the ESA said one area which needs attention is mental health support, with just 72% of respondents feeling mental health is promoted in the waste industry as … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Nov 2022 Industry news Cromwell’s bag donation to local dog rescue, Woodhaven CROMWELL POLYTHENE continues to support their local community Sherburn in Elmet, an area they have called home for over 20 years. During their residency Cromwell has regularly participated in many community activities, such as sponsoring the local sporting teams, undertaking local litter picks and donating bags, sacks and liners to charity organisations. Cromwell has continued this support... T… Skip & Waste Magazine · 15 Nov 2022 Industry news Time extension for UKCA marking The deadline for when businesses need to use the UKCA mark has been extended. The CE marking and reversed epsilon marking can continue to be used on the GB market until 31 December 2024. The UKCA marking is the product marking used for products being placed on the market in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). The UKCA marking… ADBA (Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association) · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Food support - FareShare FareShare · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Organics continue to boost Welsh recycling rate Statistics published last week (10 November) by the Welsh government showed that the country’s national recycling rate decreased by 0.2% but stayed above target. The data came from a report on the reuse, recycling and composting of local authority municipal waste for April 2021 to March 2022 with organics making up just over a third … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Viridor and AMCS partner to ‘drive digitalisation’ Technology provider AMCS and Viridor have announced today (14 November) that they have signed a deal to “drive forward” Viridor’s digitalisation programme and “improve operating efficiency”. In a joint statement, AMCS said its platform has been successfully implemented at Viridor’s waste transfer stations in Dimmer and Walpole. The implementation in Somerset is the first phase, … Read More The … letsrecycle.com News · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Novati acquires Blue Castle’s waste collections service Waste broker and resource consultancy Novati says it has acquired fellow Newark-based business Blue Castle Business Services’ waste collection service for an undisclosed amount. Novati has purchased the contractual agreements Blue Castle had with customers for waste collection services and not the business itself. Founded in 2002, Blue Castle is a consultancy which offers waste management … Rea… letsrecycle.com News · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Fashion giants agree on forest-positive textile fiber collaboration Leading fashion brands including H&M, Inditex, Kering and Stella McCartney have joined a new collaborative initiative to reduce deforestation and emissions by purchasing low-carbon alternative fibers for textile production and packaging. edie — Circular Economy tag · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Plastic exports ban would ‘sacrifice legitimate market’, Veolia says Waste management company Veolia says an all-out ban on plastic exports would “sacrifice the legitimate recycling market” for a globally traded commodity. Last week, the cross-party environment, food and rural affairs (EFRA) committee called for a ban on the export of all plastic waste from the UK by 2027 (see letsrecycle.com story). While fellow waste … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Buy Nothing New: Supporting mental health and wellbeing through reuse Reuse Network member Emmaus Bolton has joined forces with a local Bolton organisation Breakdown Bolton to offer a series of upcycling courses to improve mental health and wellbeing. Reuse Network · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news First drivers on the road through NWH’s new HGV Driving School FOLLOWING the launch of The NWH Driving School last month, which was formed to tackle the on-going HGV driver shortage, the first five drivers have hit the roads. Scott Graham has joined from Amazon and has ambitions to work his way up through the ranks to become an artic driver. He had no previous experience,... Skip & Waste Magazine · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Cost of Living documentary: watch the film What happens when the government abandons the people it’s meant to serve? This film tells the story of the Rother Valley community as they try to support each other during a historic cost of living crisis. Greenpeace UK · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Community heroes going green for garden restoration A Wirral project has received funding to transform overgrown church grounds into an eco-garden – with the help of enthusiastic schoolchildren and green fingered volunteers. St Mary’s Church in Liscard has been given £8,000 from the 2022/23 Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority and Veolia Community Fund to transform the space which will now host fruit - Continue Reading Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Viridor drives forward digitalisation with AMCS AMCS, a global technology leader for the environmental, waste, recycling, and resource industries, today (Monday 14th November) announced that the energy recovery and plastics recycling specialist, Viridor, has chosen AMCS as their technology partner to drive forward their digitalisation programme and maximise operating efficiency. AMCS and Viridor have successfully implemented AMCS Platform at… Skip & Waste Magazine · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news OPINION: ‘Eliminating today’s material mess’ Kathy Illingworth, head of sustainability consulting at data specialist Ecoveritas, examines the plastic recycling landscape in the UK. OPINION: Genuinely understanding the fundamental role of plastics recycling in the economy is key to a more sustainable future. If the goods and services we produce leave behind a vast trail of waste, this can easily outweigh … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Timber collected by Jericho Wood Shack from Wilson James site used in local theatre Timber collected by our Birmingham wood recyclers, Jericho Wood Shack, has been repurposed to make a stage set at a local theatre. More than 70% of the gorgeous staging for The Dog with Two Dads at the Midland Arts Centre was constructed using reclaimed wood from the project. Much of the timber used came from [...] Community Wood Recycling · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Defra pushes batteries consultation to 2023 The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has delayed its much-anticipated consultation on improvements to batteries regulations to 2023. The department has said the consultation will focus on three areas: issues around portable batteries, significant changes in industrial and automotive batteries, and EU batteries regulation. At a webinar in May, Paul Hallett, team leader … … letsrecycle.com News · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Benefits of high energy prices vary between London authorities SPECIAL REPORT: James Langley explores which London boroughs benefit via their residual waste treatment arrangements from the current high prices for electricity. After the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) announced that its constituent boroughs would receive a £4.75 million “windfall” from high electricity prices, eyes turned to other waste partnerships in the capital. In London, … Read Mor… letsrecycle.com News · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news Jellyfish: Helping to keep our ocean full of life - Marine Conservation Society Marine Conservation Society · 14 Nov 2022 Industry news FAQ - FCC Environment FCC Environment UK · 13 Nov 2022 Industry news The Enviromental industry comission (EIC) - Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) Environmental Industries Commission · 13 Nov 2022 Industry news Cheap Skip Hire in Wellingborough - Mick George Mick George Group · 13 Nov 2022 Industry news Climate Emergency Training - Keep Scotland Beautiful Keep Scotland Beautiful · 13 Nov 2022 Industry news Cawsand Advanced Mooring Systems interim project results Dr Jean-Luc Solandt, Principal Specialist, Marine Protected Areas, Mar - media.mcsuk.org Marine Conservation Society · 12 Nov 2022 Industry news Expanding our animal supplement business with the acquisition of Greencoat Limited - Associated British Foods Associated British Foods news · 12 Nov 2022 Industry news APPRENTICE ACADEMY - Cory Group Cory Group · 11 Nov 2022 Industry news Recycleye Recognised with Spectator Excellence in Sustainability Award We’re so proud to announce details of the latest award to be won by the Recycleye team. Recycleye was named winner of the Excellence in Sustainability category at The Spectator Economic Innovator of the Year awards, in a ceremony in London.... Recycleye news · 11 Nov 2022 Industry news JBS admits to buying almost 9,000 cattle from ‘one of Brazil’s biggest deforesters’ The post JBS admits to buying almost 9,000 cattle from ‘one of Brazil’s biggest deforesters’ appeared first on Unearthed . Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 11 Nov 2022 Industry news UK spends £2 billion destroying the forests for bioenergy – despite COP27 pledges Despite its pledges to protect the forests at COP27, the UK has increased biomass subsidies for bioenergy by £2 billion annually, which involves mass deforestation. Open Access Government — Environment · 11 Nov 2022 Industry news High price for virgin wood ‘driving demand’ for recycled content A webinar hosted by Tomra and Ikea has heard that sourcing wood in Europe in “sufficient volumes and qualities” has become “increasingly difficult”, with prices at an “all-time high”. This is in turn driving demand for recycled waste wood for manufacturers, the webinar heard. In a webinar last month, which Tomra published yesterday (10 November), … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Nov 2022 Industry news Faster ‘material reduction’ needed for carbon goals, Eunomia says Failure to reduce material use in key industries soon could mean exhausting the remaining ‘carbon budget’ by as early as 2028, a report published yesterday (10 November) highlighted. The report, titled ‘Is net zero enough for the material production sector’, was published by Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) and consultancy firm Eunomia. It outlined that a … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Nov 2022 Industry news Knowledge Sharing for Climate Action. Yesterday’s themes at COP27 were Science and Youth and Future Generations. Two of the elements discussed during the day were around improving Africa’s resilience to climate change and the role of research, development and innovation in addressing climate change. Economic development and population growth has seen the global demand for materials grow from 27 billion […] WasteAid · 11 Nov 2022 Industry news WRAP announces more sponsors for Food Waste Action Week Resources charity WRAP yesterday (10 November) announced Kenwood, Lidl and Panasonic as confirmed sponsors for next year’s Food Waste Action Week. This comes after Ocado Retail joined as the first sponsor in August (see letsrecycle.com story). Next year will see the event return for the third time, this time with a focus on the theme … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Nov 2022 Industry news Quiz: Which Greenpeace t-shirt are you? So you'd like to buy a piece of Greenpeace clothing, but not sure where to start? Take this handy little quiz and find out! Greenpeace UK · 11 Nov 2022 Industry news Green Careers Week: 5 sustainable jobs for people who love the environment Looking for a new job while loving the environment can be difficult; that’s why we’ve made it easier by listing five sustainable jobs for you Bywaters · 11 Nov 2022