Recycling news: 2020

Industry news 2020 with Doug Mackie Doug Mackie, Chair, Canadian Men’s Shed Association [1] This has been a challenging year for Men Sheds in Canada. At the time of this writing nearly all sheds are completely closed down. There are 37 sheds in 5 provinces and each province has somewhat different regulations as to the number of people who can gather together […] UK Men's Sheds Association · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news 2020 with David Helmers David Helmers – Executive Officer – Australian Men’s Shed Association[1] To use a well-worn phrase, saying that “2020 was a year like no other” is repetitious but appropriate!.. 2020 has certainly been unique as the world around us changed dramatically with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Australia, this also came upon us as […] UK Men's Sheds Association · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news Santa animation #1 The post Santa animation #1 appeared first on Alupro . Alupro · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news Santa animation #2 The post Santa animation #2 appeared first on Alupro . Alupro · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news Santa animation #3 The post Santa animation #3 appeared first on Alupro . Alupro · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news Tyre Recovery Association to launch pyrolysis group In response to the growing interest in tyre pyrolysis in the UK and beyond, the Tyre Recovery Association is to launch a sub-group of interested members to address a number of matters of common importance. The aim of the new group which will hold its first scoping meeting in January 2021 will be to consider… Tyre Recovery Association · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news Don’t be a victim The TRA’s warning to landowners Recent incidents across the UK suggest that waste tyre crime is on the increase despite the fact that the UK has both the capacity and the infrastructure to deal legally and responsibly with all of its old tyres. Often viewed by criminals as both easy money and a victimless crime the hard truth is that… Tyre Recovery Association · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news We are looking for a digital partner! The Reuse Network has been selected by Catalyst Development program to build an e-commerce platform for our network of reuse charities. Reuse Network · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news WRA ‘to challenge Agency’ over waste wood RPS The Wood Recyclers Association (WRA) has vowed to challenge the Environment Agency over proposals which could see some potentially hazardous waste wood have to be segregated at household waste recycling centres. The WRA says it has been told by the Environment Agency that it plans to extend the current Regulatory Position Statement (RPS 207) until the end of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news Unearthed today: Why oil companies want you to love hydrogen The post Unearthed today: Why oil companies want you to love hydrogen appeared first on Unearthed . Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news Suppliers - Greggs Corporate Greggs corporate media · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news Wastewise signs compost deal with Vital Earth Sales Hull-based waste management company Wastewise has signed a five-year contract with Doncaster-based Vital Earth Sales, a producer and distributor of peat-free compost. Wastewise will supply more than 40,000 tonnes per annum of its BSI PAS 100 certified compost to Vital Earth Sales. The waste management company operates three composting facilities across the north of England, … Read More The post… letsrecycle.com News · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news Covid-19 contributes to MRF contamination in Manchester The Covid-19 pandemic fuelled a rise in contamination at Manchester’s materials recycling facility (MRF) in the first quarter of the 2020/21 financial year, the city’s combined authority says. The rise is said to have been brought on in part by “tightening end markets” leading a drive for higher quality material and a spike in Covid-related … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news WRA to Challenge Hazardous Waste Regulations The Wood Recyclers’ Association is planning to challenge hazardous waste regulations which it fears will damage the waste wood supply chain. It has also rejected latest proposals from the UK’s four environmental regulators regarding the Waste Wood Classification project, and is asking them to give more support to the waste wood industry. The WRA has […] Wood Recyclers Association · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news Over 300,000 of us tell government: don’t push through bad planning changes - CPRE CPRE (the countryside charity) · 8 Dec 2020 Industry news REA response to PM’s pledge to cut emissions by at least 68% by end of 2030 REA (Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology) · 7 Dec 2020 Industry news Research on tropical forest resilience to hurricane damage Jess K. Zimmerman, Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, charts the challenges to tropical forest resilience to hurricane damage revealed by long-term research in Puerto Rico. Open Access Government — Environment · 7 Dec 2020 Industry news Crown reels in third award for Fishers Gin Pack CROWN REELS IN THIRD AWARD FOR FISHERS GIN PACK CROWN Aerosols and Promotional Packaging wins Best in Metal 2020 CROWN Aerosols and Promotional Packaging Europe has won this year’s MPMA Best in Metal Award for its speciality pack for Fishers Gin. Fishers Gin […] MPMA (Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association) · 7 Dec 2020 Industry news Sunderland begins work on £4m HWRC The construction of a new £4 million household waste and recycling centre (HWRC) in Sunderland has begun, the city’s local authority announced on 3 December. The HWRC is to be built on the site of a former Rolls Royce factory at Pallion, a suburb in north west Sunderland. It will replace Sunderland city council’s current … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Dec 2020 Industry news Suez highlights Recycle More success in Mendip Mendip residents recycled more than 300 extra tonnes of waste in the five weeks after Suez and the Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) rolled out their Recycle More service. Part of efforts to increase the region’s recycling rate from 52.4% in the 2018/19 financial year to 60%, the Recycle More service was introduced to around 53,000 … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Dec 2020 Industry news Clarity Environmental scores place in Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 league table The post Clarity Environmental scores place in Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 league table appeared first on Clarity . Clarity Environmental · 7 Dec 2020 Industry news Historic sea ice decreases caused sudden climate change In the glacial period, sea ice decreases occurred at a similar time to drastic climate change and created intensive debate among scientists - now, the ICE2ICE project has a conclusive answer for what happened. Open Access Government — Environment · 7 Dec 2020 Industry news Surrey ‘reviewing’ options for delayed Eco Park Surrey county council says it is “reviewing” its “contractual position” with Suez as a result of delays to the ‘Eco Park’, a collection of facilities including an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility and a gasifier. Suez is developing the Eco Park to manage waste from Surrey households as part of its 25-year contract with the local … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Dec 2020 Industry news Digital DRS trial to launch in Wales A digital deposit return scheme (DRS) for plastic bottles will be trialled at households in Conwy county in the spring as part of a trial launched by the Welsh government and WRAP. Householders will be provided with a set of bottles tagged by Polytag, a patent pending technology which allows brands to print markers on … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Dec 2020 Industry news A special thank you from our CEO The post A special thank you from our CEO appeared first on Keep Wales Tidy . Keep Wales Tidy · 5 Dec 2020 Industry news TfL awards waste contracts worth £21.1m Transport for London (TfL) has awarded three waste management companies contracts worth a combined £21.1 million for refuse and waste related services. The contract was split into four lots and encompasses skips and container waste collection and dustcart collection services. Bywaters was awarded a £9 million contract for skips and container waste collection services for general waste. Grundon … letsrecycle.com News · 4 Dec 2020 Industry news Insurers offer advice on avoiding vehicle fires Specialist insurers have suggested that councils and waste management businesses who own a vehicle fleet should consider parking them with a six-metre gap as part of a “strategic parking plan” to limit the damage caused by fires. Other tips include parking vehicles engine-to-tail or keeping them in different parts of the yard if space is … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Dec 2020 Industry news Even something of little value has value: researching, identifying and scaling new technologies in the Democratic Republic of Congo Once a site of fishing and trading villages, Kinshasa’s population of 14.5 million makes it Africa’s third-largest city after Cairo and Lagos. Every day, around 90,000 tonnes of waste is generated and only 20,000 is collected, leaving the vast majority within the urban landscape. In the neighbourhoods of Matete municipality, an overflowing public dump spills […] WasteAid · 4 Dec 2020 Industry news ‘Britain’s first’ plastic-free takeaway cup launched “Britain’s first” fully plastic-free and recyclable takeaway cup was launched in partnership with the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) on 2 December. The ButterflyCup is initially being unveiled at WWT centres across the UK. Unlike traditional takeaway cups, the cup contains no plastic laminate, uses plant-based inks and due to its all-in-one design does not … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Dec 2020 Industry news Cheshire West tops Eunomia’s carbon table Cheshire West and Chester council has been named by Eunomia as the best in the UK for reducing carbon emissions through its recycling services in 2018/19. The eighth edition of Eunomia’s annual Recycling Cabon Index, published 1 December, showed that Cheshire West and Chester council saved 120kg of Co2 emissions per capita in 2018/19. The … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Dec 2020 Industry news Ecosurety awards £500,000 to waste projects Compliance scheme Ecosurety has awarded a total of £500,000 to four UK-based innovation and research projects offering “practical and impactful recycling and reuse solutions”. The Ecosurety Exploration Fund was launched in November 2019 to provide funding for companies, charities, not-for-profits, academic institutions and the public sector working on projects addressing the environmental chall… letsrecycle.com News · 4 Dec 2020 Industry news Reuse Network among winners of £500K Ecosurety Exploration Fund Reuse Network will use these funds to publish essential guidance to reusers for the repair and reuse of waste electrical appliances. Reuse Network · 4 Dec 2020 Industry news A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to Generate Transparent Objects The research conducted uses a technique which creates synthetic data using a general adversarial network to generate transparent objects.... Recycleye news · 4 Dec 2020 Industry news Synthetic Generation of Augmented 3D Data for Waste Classification Machine learning techniques have demonstrated super-human abilities that are necessary towards improving the recycling infrastructure. ... Recycleye news · 4 Dec 2020 Industry news Levenseat Announce new plans for Phase 2 of its Energy from Waste Power Plant Levenseat Renewable Energy today (4th December 2020) announce plans for further expansion following West Lothian Council planning committee’s decision to grant permission for a variation to the Phase 2 Energy from Waste - Thermal Treatment Plant. Levenseat · 4 Dec 2020 Industry news Casualties after Wessex Water site explosion There have been “a number of casualties” after an explosion at a Wessex Water site in Avonmouth which is home to a waste water treatment facility and the Geneco recycling and renewables business this morning (3 December). At this stage few details of the explosion have been released, but the site on Kings Weston Lane … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Dec 2020 Industry news Contact Us - Tissue World Magazine Tissue World Magazine · 3 Dec 2020 Industry news PepsiCo pledges 100% rPET bottles in UK by 2022 Food and beverage giant PepsiCo has vowed to remove all virgin plastic from its Pepsi bottles in the UK and eight other countries by 2022. The company says it will package the entire range of beverages under the brand with plastics recycled from post- consumer packaging (recycled polyethylene terephthalate, or ‘rPET’). It added that it … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Dec 2020 Industry news A Review of the CRNS Annual Conference – A Fairer Scotland, A Greener World. We are absolutely delighted that our inaugural online annual conference ‘A Fairer Scotland, A Greener World’, which was run over 2 mornings in November, was so well received by attendees. The huge step to pivot our pre-eminent annual event to be fully digital paid off, with over 135 delegates in attendance over the 2 days. [...] Circular Communities Scotland · 3 Dec 2020 Industry news RECOUP predicts lockdown rise in plastics recycling Changes to UK citizens’ lifestyles during the Covid-19 pandemic have led to a “significant rise” in plastics recycling rates, recycling charity RECOUP said in its annual household plastics collection survey. However, the survey shows that the recycling rate in the UK grew by just 2% to 39% between April 2019 and March 2020. The plastics … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Dec 2020