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For those with significant volumes of packaging waste – metal, glass, plastics and paper – the latest data for the UK’s packaging waste recycling system, based on PRNs, made interesting reading. For example, they showed that changes to scrap metal protocols appeared to have led to a shortfall in the amount of aluminium packaging recovered…
The UK’s packaging waste system, which sees obligated businesses accounting for recycling through the purchase of PRNs (packaging waste recovery notes), continues to attract attention. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) which is responsible for the packaging waste legislation is sounding out parties involved as to what they think of the current…
More stringent regulations covering the collection of waste packaging have been confirmed by the Environment Agency this week. Following a somewhat fraught consultation phase, the EA has confirmed the amendments to the (WM2) regulations. The consultation process was hastily conducted and without effective communication to processors or producers. This process has resulted in the regulations…
The Environment Agency has recently issued new guidance regarding the collection of waste packaging. The revised technical guidance (WM2) came into effect from 1st Jan and last week the EA issued a draft letter clarifying what the new changes mean. Final confirmation is expected shortly. Definition – All used packaging is now considered waste under…
When an articulated vehicle is involved in a full speed accident on the motorway, the devastation caused can be massive. This was the case last week when 2 lorries collided on the M4 causing the busy motorway to be closed for 10 hours. Fortunately no one was hurt during the incident, however the crash had…
In 1995 a French-born Iranian-American computer programmer started a small auction website, 18 years later, Ebay now has over 15,000 employees and a revenue of more than $7.7 billion, selling virtually anything to anyone on the planet. It is therefore all the more surprising when a new product appears. In fact last month PackCare launched…
There is nothing more attractive to a large organisation than fulfilling CSR objectives whilst saving money. The PackCare service ticks all the boxes, supplying containers to the customer and collecting them after use for refurbishment and further reuse. These green credentials have led to Fisher Research choosing PackCare as their supplier for plastic drums and…
Large manufacturing organisations are under increasing pressure through regulation as well as various stakeholders to account for their production methods and the by-products they produce. With this in mind, most large manufacturers enforce a stringent auditing process for all suppliers. When WasteCare’s packaging division submitted a winning quote to Bostik, the audit process began, looking…
The Head of Packaging and Design at Sainsbury’s, Stuart Lendrum, has said producers and retailers should be doing more to educate consumers about packaging and the role this plays in reducing waste. The comments came at an event hosted by the Associate Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group (APSRG) entitled Packaging: Minimising environmental impact through the life-cycle….
The PackCare facility in Yorkshire processes blue plastic drums and IBC’s, containers that usually have a finite life due to the contents they are used to transport. The PackCare facility has developed a method of grading, recycling and preparing the containers for reuse through the use of a complex chemical wash procedure. Inevitably, a proportion…
