Recycling news: 2021

Industry news High blood lead levels found in people living near oil extraction sites Indigenous communities in the Amazon have been found to have high blood levels due to illegal oil extraction sites, according to a new study. Open Access Government — Environment · 11 Jun 2021 Industry news The aquaculture sector towards the bioeconomy Sergio Ponsá Salas, Director, BETA Technological Center (UVic-UCC), describes boosting the transition of the aquaculture sector towards the bioeconomy, with discussion ranging from aquaculture industry by-products to bio-based fertilizers. Open Access Government — Environment · 11 Jun 2021 Industry news ‘Huge rise’ in food redistribution in 2020 Sustainability charity WRAP has reported a “huge rise” in surplus food redistribution in 2020, with 92,000 tonnes prevented from going to waste. Worth £280 million, the food represented the equivalent of 220 million meals, WRAP said. The sustainability charity published a report, ‘Surplus food redistribution in the UK 2015 – 2020’, yesterday (10 June). The … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Jun 2021 Industry news Material Focus adverts help increase WEEE recycling Material Focus says up to 42% of people who saw its advertising campaign in 2020 said they had either started recycling electricals or were doing more of it. Formerly known as the WEEE Fund, Material Focus is a not-for-profit organisation funded by the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) compliance fee. It was created in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Jun 2021 Industry news 300 drones. One message. Act now. A swarm of 300 drones descended on Cornwall, demanding G7 world leaders act now to protect the planet. Greenpeace UK · 11 Jun 2021 Industry news Unilever to trial paper detergent bottle Unilever announced yesterday (11 June) that it will be trialling a switch in the packaging of its leading laundry detergent from plastic to paper, with the first paper bottles to be rolled out in Brazil in early 2022. The move is being seen by some within the recycling sector as adding a layer of uncertainty … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Jun 2021 Industry news Swarm of 300 drones descends on Cornwall demanding G7 world leaders ‘ACT NOW’ to protect the planet A groundbreaking new Greenpeace film calls on world leaders gathered at the G7 to ‘ACT NOW’ to tackle the climate and nature crisis. Greenpeace UK · 11 Jun 2021 Industry news Towards a circular economy - ReLondon ReLondon · 11 Jun 2021 Industry news World Ocean Day 2021 On World Ocean Day 2021, Planet Patrol partnered with REN Clean Skincare and NEUBAU Eyewear to launch two brand new Missions in the Planet Patrol app. Together, we can play a part in helping to protect our oceans and waterways from the harm caused by plastic and single-use pollution. Celebrating World Ocean Day with REN […] Planet Patrol · 11 Jun 2021 Industry news Eight Simple Ways to Reduce your Waste at Home – for beginners. Reducing the amount of waste your family creates on a daily basis is important for the environment, helps preserve resources and saves you money. If you’re new to the zero waste journey, here are eight simple ways to reduce your waste, without reducing your quality of life. And if you’ve fallen off the bandwagon recently,… Zero Waste Week · 10 Jun 2021 Industry news Kyrgyzstan: A journey towards sustainable waste management Waste legislation has been established and in place within Europe for over 20 years, but we are now starting to see countries further afield implementing their own extended producer responsibility legislation and programs. Valpak’s International Account Manager, Emma Trevor, looks at the beginnings of requirements in Kyrgyzstan. Valpak · 10 Jun 2021 Industry news ‘Mount Recyclemore’ erected in Cornwall Online retailer musicMagpie has erected a huge sculpture of world leaders made from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in Cornwall ahead of the G7 summit. Dubbed ‘Mount Recyclemore’, artist Joe Rush and sculptor Alex Wreckage created the piece to highlight the environmental impact of the improper disposal of WEEE. The world leaders depicted are … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Jun 2021 Industry news The Circular from ERP – Combined Q1 & Q2, 2021 Newsletter All the latest news, data and analysis Der Beitrag The Circular from ERP – Combined Q1 & Q2, 2021 Newsletter erschien zuerst auf United Kingdom (EN) . ERP UK (European Recycling Platform) · 10 Jun 2021 Industry news Agency told of scale of waste crime The Environment Agency has published the results of its national waste crime survey, with respondents from the waste industry saying 18% in the sector commit “some form of waste crime”. The survey was launched in March (see letsrecycle.com story) and looked to assess how regulation could be used to “combat” waste crime. Those who had … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Jun 2021 Industry news SLWP recycling rate creeps up in 2020/21 The South London Waste Partnership (SLWP) slightly increased its recycling rate by 0.3% to 39% between April 2020 and March 2021 when compared to the previous financial year, while waste arisings jumped 7.6%. The SLWP manages waste for the London boroughs of Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton. As shown in the table below, the recycling … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Jun 2021 Industry news Working Group to Mobilise Industry Towards New Sustainable Packaging Ambition Publication/Website: Circular Online Click here to read the article OPRL (On-Pack Recycling Label) · 10 Jun 2021 Industry news Ward joins the Pledge to Net Zero and the UN Race to Zero to tackle climate change Derbyshire based metal recycling and waste management specialist, Ward, is one of only 104 signatories to have been accepted onto the ‘Pledge to Net Zero’ also joins the UN’s ‘Race to Zero’ campaign. Ward Recycling · 10 Jun 2021 Industry news Chemical pollution is impacting UK marine and freshwater wildlife Pollution, including chemical pollution, has been recognised as one of the five direct drivers of the biodiversity crisis by the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services). In England, none of the 4,679 inland water bodies assessed by the Environment Agency in 2019 received good chemical status. All have levels of chemical contaminants […] CHEM Trust · 10 Jun 2021 Industry news Sweden overtakes the Dutch for English RDF imports Rolling figures to April 2021 show Sweden has overtaken the Netherlands as the most popular destination for exports of refuse derived fuel (RDF) from England for the first time. According to data obtained from the Environment Agency by environmental consultancy Footprint Services, a total of 1.59 million tonnes of RDF was exported from England between … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Jun 2021 Industry news Women keeping Ireland's gold in the ground - The Ecologist The Ecologist · 10 Jun 2021 Industry news Get to know our volunteers; Jemin, Board Director We have amazing people in the Repair Cafe Wales Family As part of a series on getting to know our volunteers, we've set a series of questions and our amazing volunteers have answered them ‘virtually’ for us. Next up in the series is our Board Director, Jemin Q. What is your name, when did you ... Repair Cafe Wales · 9 Jun 2021 Industry news Drone helps tackle blaze at EMR’s Darlaston site Twenty firefighters attended a fire involving 70 tonnes of waste white goods last night (8 June) at the European Metal Recycling (EMR) site in Darlaston, near Walsall. West Midlands Fire Service told letsrecycle.com it first received a call about the fire at 9.32pm yesterday. An area of around 10 metres by 10 metres was said … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Jun 2021 Industry news E-waste: WasteAid partners with musicMagpie at G7 WasteAid partners with recommerce expert musicMagpie ahead of attention-grabbing event at G7 to highlight the growing environmental threat of e-waste. Image: Adam Gasson/PA Wire WasteAid has partnered with recommerce expert musicMagpie as part of its G7 campaign to tackle the global e-waste challenge, with a donation for each piece of tech sold to […] WasteAid · 9 Jun 2021 Industry news London Mayor to meet Edmonton EfW campaigners The Mayor of London has agreed to meet with campaigners opposing the redevelopment of the Edmonton energy from waste (EfW) plant near Chingford. Sadiq Khan said that while he had “no power” to pause the project, he would ensure operators of all London-based EfW facilities realised the “local and social” impact of their plants. The … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Jun 2021 Industry news Agency hits back at Averies Recycling fire report The Environment Agency has defended its enforcement procedures after a report from a task group set up by Swindon council partly blamed it for a 2014 fire at Averies Recycling, which burned for 57 days. The dispute relates to a fire in 2014 at the site in Marshgate, Swindon, which involved 1,000 tonnes of general … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Jun 2021 Industry news CRNS Welcomes Two New Team Members We are delighted this month to welcome two new faces to the CRNS Team. Sarah Case joins as our Communications and Campaigns Officer, this is a brand new post and we are super excited about the new opportunities it will bring for us and our member network. We also welcome Jed Alexander who is our [...] Circular Communities Scotland · 9 Jun 2021 Industry news Waste infrastructure ‘urgently needed’ in Herts Hertfordshire county council is to meet on 10 June to discuss the building of the facilities required to manage the county’s waste over the next decade. Currently all Hertfordshire’s local authority collected residual waste is exported outside the county, and the council has had two plans for an energy from waste (EfW) plant rejected. A … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Jun 2021 Industry news Join Recycleye’s Instagram Live with EIT! Recycleye is going live with the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) this Thursday 10th June at 3:30pm BST on Instagram, for an up-close-and-personal interview with our CEO on how Recycleye transformed from start-up to scale-up in under 2 years!... Recycleye news · 9 Jun 2021 Industry news Job Description - FareShare The Felix Project · 8 Jun 2021 Industry news Business Waste Collection | Total Resource Management - Olleco Olleco · 8 Jun 2021 Industry news Volunteers’ Week 2021 – a time to say thanks! Throughout Volunteers Week it was inspiring to hear stories from the network about their volunteers and the amazing work they do. Reuse Network · 8 Jun 2021 Industry news Urbaser sold to US equity firm An American firm has acquired Urbaser from a Chinese-owned company for approximately $4.2 billion (£ 2.97 billion). Platinum Equity, which is based in Los Angeles, announced on 6 June that it had entered into “definitive agreement” to purchase the waste management company, which is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. The sale expected to be completed during … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Jun 2021 Industry news Alupro announces winner of national education campaign Alupro, the aluminium packaging recycling organisation, has announced the winner of its national educational programme – Masters of Infinity. Sophie Mae Juguilon (10), from St. Michael’s Catholic Primary School in Ashford, took home first prize for her outstanding manga comic strip. Alongside a brand-new iPad, Sophie Mae was presented with a £1,500 voucher for her […] Alupro · 8 Jun 2021 Industry news Every Can Counts takes recycled rainbow art installation to Manchester As part of a collaboration between Every Can Counts and Greater Manchester Combined Authority, a giant rainbow created from 2,500 recycled beverage cans has appeared in Piccadilly Gardens. Installed in celebration of World Environment Day (Saturday 5th June), the four-metre-high art piece aims to tackle litter and promote the infinite recyclability of aluminium. The cans […] Alupro · 8 Jun 2021 Industry news ‘Adding social value’: Suez UK’s John Scanlon interviewed John Scanlon became chief executive of Suez recycling and recovery UK at the start of 2020, just weeks ahead of the Covid pandemic. In this video interview, he talks to Steve Eminton about the business during the pandemic, how the business has a focus on social value and sustainability, energy from waste (EfW) and the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Jun 2021 Industry news LARAC concerned by EPR ‘reference costs’ The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) has expressed concerns about the use of ‘reference costs’ in the government’s consultation on extended producer responsibility (EPR). This approach seeks to establish a benchmark cost for managing packaging waste for local authorities, based on the adoption of ‘good practice’ in the design and ‘effective delivery’ of their … Read More The… letsrecycle.com News · 8 Jun 2021 Industry news Former Environment Agency trio join OEP The first four non-executive board members of the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) include three individuals with past links to the Environment Agency. As a new environmental watchdog, the OEP has been created to monitor the government’s environmental activities, replacing the European Commission, which had regulatory powers prior to Brexit. The new body will operate … Read More The po… letsrecycle.com News · 8 Jun 2021 Industry news Biowise applies to expand Willerby capacity Yorkshire based organics recycler Biowise is applying to increase the capacity of its Willerby in-vessel composting (IVC) facility because of an “influx of material” coming into the plant. The organics recycler has applied to the Environment Agency to increase the site’s capacity from 75,000 tonnes per annum to 90,000 tonnes because of an “unprecedented” increase … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Jun 2021 Industry news Ecosurety launches second Exploration Fund Compliance scheme Ecosurety has launched the second round of its Exploration Fund, which offers up to £150,000 for projects tackling packaging, batteries and waste electrical and electronic waste (WEEE). Launching the second round today (8 June), Ecosurety says its Exploration Fund is the only form of finance to be offered by a UK based producer … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Jun 2021 Industry news Councils ‘need clarity’ on EPR funding The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned that councils need more clarity on how waste services will be funded under the proposed Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) reforms. The call came as part of the LGA’s response — which it published on Thursday (3 June)— to the government’s second round consultation on an EPR system for … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Jun 2021