Recycling news: 2021

Industry news Activists set for EfW day of action Lobby groups and activists have announced the ‘multi-city launch’ of the Stop the Burn campaign, with a national day of action ‘against waste incineration’ on Saturday, 25 September. Protests are expected to take place at five sites consisting: the London Energy (previously London Waste) North London Waste Authority plant at Edmonton, North London; Veolia’s Portsmouth … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 24 Sept 2021 Industry news ‘Avoiding falls’ theme for Veolia safety week Veolia is this week running its 7th International Health and Safety Week with emphasis on avoiding falls. The company said that the aim of the week “is to galvanise employees into even greater action with the aim of preventing accidents and safeguarding everyone’s health as part of a collective effort to improve working conditions. Top … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 24 Sept 2021 Industry news Packaging companies urged to improve data to comply with ‘green’ claims law The post Packaging companies urged to improve data to comply with ‘green’ claims law appeared first on Clarity . Clarity Environmental · 24 Sept 2021 Industry news Reuse Network Annual Conference 2021: awards nominations now open This year the awards have been kindly sponsored by Domestic & General and there are three awards up for grabs. Reuse Network · 24 Sept 2021 Industry news Llantwit Major – Shining a Light on the Landscape of Sustainability Shining a Light on the Landscape of Sustainability We recognise that this past year has been hard for many, so with this in mind, we’d like to promote some other incredible initiatives working to create stronger, cleaner, and more sustainable communities. Each month we will be promoting a location that is home to one of ... Repair Cafe Wales · 24 Sept 2021 Industry news Lincolnshire removes HWRC booking system Lincolnshire county council has said it is seeing “unprecedented levels of demand” at its network of household waste and recycling centres (HWRCs), following the removal of booking systems. The county council removed booking systems at the beginning of the month following reports they cost the county council £9,000 a month to operate. The decision came during … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 24 Sept 2021 Industry news OPRL Joins UN Global Compact to Further Sustainable Development Goals Click here to download the Press Release OPRL (On-Pack Recycling Label) · 24 Sept 2021 Industry news Canal College® - Keep Scotland Beautiful Keep Scotland Beautiful · 23 Sept 2021 Industry news Local marketing guide If you need help marketing your local collections, we have prepared a guide which covers: Setting up a free customer database with Zoho Finding and developing possible sales leads Marketing materials (with templates) Sales calls (with scripts) Enterprise Guide: Local Collections Marketing Community Wood Recycling · 23 Sept 2021 Industry news Jericho supplies discount Our Birmingham enterprise, Jericho, is part of the Jericho Foundation, a charity which runs a number of social enterprises to help their work with people who experience significant personal or occupational barriers to employment, training or social inclusion. Their enterprise Jericho Print offers high quality printing for both stationery and garments (including workwear and hi [...] Community Wood Recycling · 23 Sept 2021 Industry news Nestlé backs Yes Recycling’s flexible plastics plant Nestlé UK and Ireland announced yesterday (22 September) it has provided Yes Recycling with a ‘pre-investment’ of £1.65 million for the firm’s flexible plastic recycling facility in Glenrothes, Fife. Set to open “fully” by the end of 2021, the 15,000-tonnes-per year capacity plant will turn flexible plastics, such as those typically used in food packaging, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 23 Sept 2021 Industry news Defra could publish consultation responses next year The deputy director for resources and waste at Defra says the department’s response to and way forward with consultations on key waste reforms will be published “later this year or early next”. Earlier this year, Defra launched consultations on introducing a deposit return scheme (DRS), extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging, and consistency in household … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 23 Sept 2021 Industry news Port Clarence switch to EfW ‘under consideration’ Glennmont Partners says it is seeking a “positive solution” for the 325,000 tonnes-per-year capacity Port Clarence biomass project, with a switch to energy from waste (EfW) technology a possibility. The £160 million plant was mothballed in April 2019 when its main contractors Babcock & Wilcox Volund reached a settlement with Glenmont to exit the site. … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 23 Sept 2021 Industry news Sector demands ‘clarity’ for private investors Senior figures from across the sector have called on the government to provide clarity on extended producer responsibility (EPR) to drive private investment in recycling infrastructure. John Scanlon, the CEO of Suez, Kevin Bradshaw, Viridor’s CEO, and Claire Shrewsbury, director of insights and innovation at resources charity WRAP, made their demands yesterday (22 September) at … Read More The … letsrecycle.com News · 23 Sept 2021 Industry news Waste industry brief for Jo Churchill at Defra The waste sector has a new minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with the announcement on 22 September of Jo Churchill MP as taking on the role. The Department said that Minister Jo Churchill is ‘overseeing the waste and regulated industries areas’. She joined Defra on 16 September from the Department … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 Sept 2021 Industry news Merseyside community groups come together to help reduce waste Seventeen community groups have met in Liverpool to come up with ideas to help the City Region reduce, re-use and recycle more. The groups have all received funding from the Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority (MRWA) and Veolia Community Fund 21/22, which has distributed £165,000 to help support local waste prevention, re-use and recycling initiatives. - Continue Reading Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority · 22 Sept 2021 Industry news 64% of businesses lack environmental policy, Suez finds A survey conducted by Suez and UK business network, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), has found that 64% of businesses have “no environmental sustainability policy”. The survey results, published yesterday (20 September), also found that 69% of responding businesses, of more than 1,000 surveyed in the UK, think ‘environmental sustainability’ is about cutting carbon … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 Sept 2021 Industry news Women in waste discuss paving way forward The waste industry may have been considered a “man’s world” in years past. However, experts gathered to discuss how the dynamics of the sector are changing at the ‘Women in Resource and Sustainability’ panel at LetsRecycle Live last week. Robyn White reports. Women in the circular economy The first discussion, Women in the Circular Economy, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 Sept 2021 Industry news Keenan Celebrates UK Coverage Amid Driver Shortage KEENAN RECYCLING HAS REACHED ITS BIGGEST MILESTONE TO DATE, AS IT CELEBRATES FULL NATIONAL COVERAGE – OPERATING FROM THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND, TO THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND, DESPITE NATIONWIDE DRIVER SHORTAGES. The waste management company, which reduces the amount of waste going into landfill by collecting and recycling organic material, has invested over £4m in […] Keenan Recycling · 22 Sept 2021 Industry news Recycleye Raises £3.5million to Solve the World’s Waste Epidemic Having developed the world’s largest visual AI database of waste items, and low-cost robotics technology that automates dangerous manual labour, Recycleye enables waste management companies, including Biffa, to increase the purity and value of materials... Recycleye news · 22 Sept 2021 Industry news Cornwall trials stencils to deter fly-tippers Cornwall council and the Environment Agency launched a joint week-long campaign on 20 September to tackle fly-tipping and waste crime in areas of Illogan, a village near Redruth. Others involved in the campaign, dubbed Don’t Rubbish Illogan, include Devon and Cornwall Police, Trading Standards and Biffa. The Agency says Cornwall council spends an estimated £250,000 … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 Sept 2021 Industry news Fishing boat flotilla arrives in Westminster to protest against broken Brexit promises A flotilla of fishing boats, accompanied by Greenpeace activists, is sailing up the Thames to the Houses of Parliament today. Greenpeace UK · 22 Sept 2021 Industry news WasteAid launches first Annual Review Today, WasteAid published its first annual review – a report that focuses on our developments and most important successes since April 2020. It shares key figures, programme and partnership spotlights, and our newly developed Theory of Change. The Annual Review also takes the opportunity to look ahead to our vision of inclusive waste management and […] WasteAid · 22 Sept 2021 Industry news Pair of robots installed for Recyco in Omagh Two robotic units have been installed at a materials recycling facility in Northern Ireland by American firm AMP Robotics through REP-TEC Advanced Technologies. The robots have been installed at a MRF run by Northern Ireland waste management and recycling business RecyCo in Omagh. The company’s MRF for dry recyclables handles around 150,000 tonnes of material … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 Sept 2021 Industry news Birmingham mobile HWRCs collect 118.4 tonnes Birmingham’s fleet of ‘mobile’ household waste and recycling centres (HWRC’s) collected a total of 118.4 tonnes of waste during its first month and a half of operation. And the city council, which announced the roll out of the fleet in June this year, has thanked residents in Birmingham for the “support” they have shown the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 Sept 2021 Industry news U-NICA’s scryptoTRACE Suite - Packaging Gateway Packaging Gateway (GlobalData) · 21 Sept 2021 Industry news Sam’s Listening, A new partnership to tackle declining mental wellbeing in young people across London through boxing Leading London recycling and waste management company Powerday and partner London Boxing have launched a new mental health helpline with psychotherapy and counselling charity, icap (Immigrant Counsell... Powerday · 21 Sept 2021 Industry news Pringles tubes and other paper containers with metal ends now accepted at Merseyside recycling Bring Banks A new recycling service for paper containers with metal ends, such as Pringles tubes, hot chocolate, nuts and other products, has been launched at Merseyside’s 14 Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) this Recycle Week. Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority has introduced the service in partnership with Veolia and the Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the - Continue Reading Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority · 21 Sept 2021 Industry news UK in danger of not meeting decarbonisation targets says new report REA (Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology) · 21 Sept 2021 Industry news WEEE news round-up (21/09/2021) With a consultation on lithium-ion batteries on the horizon, it has been a busy few weeks for the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) sector, in which several councils strengthened their kerbside collections. James Langley takes a look at some of the recent WEEE developments. The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) today (21 September) published a … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 21 Sept 2021 Industry news Soaring gas prices demonstrates need for diverse decarbonised energy system REA (Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology) · 21 Sept 2021 Industry news Re3 installs ‘first of its kind’ robot picking system The waste management body for Bracknell Forest, Reading and Wokingham borough councils, re3, has installed a robotic waste picking system at its material recycling facility (MRF) in Reading, Berkshire. Re3, along with its contractor FCC Environment, partnered with waste management start up Recycleye to install the system, which it claims is the “first of its … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 21 Sept 2021 Industry news Glass sector voices DRS concerns British Glass’s technical director has called for the exclusion of glass from the proposed deposit return scheme (DRS), describing it as “not the right solution”. Nick Kirk was speaking at a session on glass at the Letsrecycle Live trade show at Stoneleigh Park, chaired by Ecosurety’s procurement manager, Sandeep Atwall. British Glass is the representative … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 21 Sept 2021 Industry news LARAC reveals 2021 Awards finalists The shortlisted finalists for the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee’s (LARAC) prestigious 13th set of annual awards were announced today (21 September). The awards will be held on the first night of the LARAC’s annual conference which takes place on 6-7 October at the Hilton Metropole, Birmingham. The awards ceremony allows visitors to recognise the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 21 Sept 2021 Industry news Meat industry pushes UN food summit to back factory farming The post Meat industry pushes UN food summit to back factory farming appeared first on Unearthed . Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 21 Sept 2021 Industry news Green homes revolution could create 138,000 new jobs and inject £9.8bn into economy, report finds Findings from a new report highlight the huge economic and social benefits that could be created by decarbonising the UK's housing Greenpeace UK · 20 Sept 2021 Industry news Common Recycling Mistakes Many of us recycle, but do we know how to do it correctly? Unfortunately, The average recycling contamination rate is 25%, or 1 in 4 items. To hit the UK target recycling rate of 65% by 2035, we must recycle properly. As London’s leading sustainable waste management company, our goal is to lead you and future generations toward a more sustainable planet. Bywaters · 20 Sept 2021 Industry news Climate change: From deep scientific understanding to practical solutions Markku Kulmala, from the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, discusses the ACCC Flagship concerning adaptation to climate change, from deep scientific understanding to practical solutions. Open Access Government — Environment · 20 Sept 2021 Industry news Zero Waste Scotland launches Recycling Sorter Zero Waste Scotland has launched a digital tool which it claims will help “combat confusion” around recycling. The launch of the ‘Recycling Sorter’ coincides with Recycle Week which takes place this week between 20-26 September 2021. The tool is available online at www.recyclingsorter.scot, and allows citizens to search what items can be recycled, and in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 20 Sept 2021 Industry news Charity partnership litter pick Valpak's 2022 nationwide litter pick will aim to deliver both ecological and community benefits. Lucy Randle explains more in her latest Blog... Valpak · 20 Sept 2021