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Recycling: How to engage and attract new customers [webinar slides]
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This webinar is aimed at recycling companies and will provide you with strategies and tools to attract and engage new customers. Join the webinar to: Learn why the economy … -
How Do You Deal With Waste Plastics Contaminated with Maggots?
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After a great start to the Hollybank sites waste recycling project, and reaching our target of 0% landfill, we have hit our first problem. Just as you start to think that … -
Improving the performance of bring recycling sites
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The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has published a guide to help local authorities in England improve the performance of their bring recycling sites and ensure … -
Trials successfully sort black plastic packaging
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Successful large-scale trials have been carried out on a new technology that enables black packaging to be automatically detected and sorted avoiding it ending up in … -
Green Investment Bank backs new waste treatment facility
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The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) is to fund a new waste treatment, recycling and waste-to-energy facility near Wakefield in West Yorkshire. The facility is to be built as … -
Crown Paints launches national recycling scheme
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Crown Paints has launched a product take-back scheme designed to engage the public and demonstrate producer responsibility. A two-week campaign, known as ‘Kick Out The Can’, … -
GSK launches first UK-wide inhaler recycling scheme
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A new initiative by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKine aims to dramatically reduce the number of respiratory inhalers that end up in landfill. ‘Complete the Cycle’ is the … -
New York City plans Styrofoam food packaging ban
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has set out plans to ban the use of polystyrene foam food packaging from stores and restaurants in the city. In his 12th and final state of … -
Want to recycle rubbish on the streets? Try ‘techno-pods’
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The City of London has recycled more than 100 tonnes of waste in a year thanks to recycling bins that double up as TV screens. The bins, known as ‘techno-pods’, have proved … -
Interface and Zoological Society of London pioneer programme to recycle disused fishing nets
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Global carpet tile manufacturer Interface and conservation charity the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have rolled out an initiative to tackle the growing problem of …