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Terry Cutmore the Tory leader of Rochford District Council has said: “I wouldn’t welcome anything that changed our present (recycling) system.” The council has the number one recycling system in the country and has reached a 65 per cent recycling rate. Their system involves householders using three large wheelie bins to separate their food waste,…
Old televisions, washing machines, videos, blenders, in fact any Waste Electrical and Electronics Equipment (WEEE) has been collected and recycled for free in Reading, Basingstoke and Deane throughout July. This is part of a trial which was carried out by specialist recycling company WeCollectWaste (who are owned by WasteCare) in conjunction with Tesco, Reading Borough…
The Waste & Resources Action Programme (Wrap) has launched a £2m loan fund for mixed plastic packaging recycling in the UK. The Mixed Plastics Loan Fund (MPLF) aims to support UK reprocessing of plastics including yoghurt pots, margarine tubs and plastic food trays. At the moment, 90 per cent of mixed plastic packaging ends up…
ClothCare is a new specialist recycling service for rags, wipes and cloths used in the printing industry. The company supplies, collects and recycles cloths to the industry, providing an easy to use and environmentally friendly service. WasteCare has been providing recycling services to printers for 30 years. Now, through a partnership with Print Cloth Ltd,…
Figures published by the Sunday Telegraph have revealed that householders are being fined more for breaking the rules on bin use and recycling than they would be for shoplifting. The paper contacted all 358 local councils in England and found out from the 207 that responded that 1,240 fixed penalty notices and 24,914 official statutory…
The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has said that Scotland will struggle to meet its target of recycling 40 per cent of rubbish by the end of 2010. Latest recycling figures show that the country currently recycles 34 per cent of rubbish. This is almost double the recycling rate of five years ago. However, there…
Legislative pressures could lead to the UK becoming a leader in the waste management of batteries, according to a report published by consultants Frost & Sullivan. The report, ‘European Batteries Waste Management Market’ looks at current and future market prospects for collecting, treating and disposing of waste batteries across Europe. The report claims that EU-wide…
A new survey carried out by Keep Scotland Beautiful has found that most residents living in the Edinburgh and Midlothian area are recycling. The survey was commissioned by the two local authorities and will now be used to shape future waste policy. Encouragingly, the survey found that people weren’t just recycling more, but that they…
Sainsbury’s has reached the first target set out in the Milk Roadmap by using 10 per cent recycled content in its HDPE bottles. The Milk Roadmap was launched in 2008 and sets a target of 10 per cent recycled material in milk packaging by 2010 rising to 30 per cent by 2015 and 50 per…
Scotland has launched a new zero waste campaign and unveiled a report of the country’s current recycling record all in one day. This underlines their hardline approach to waste management going forward. The report showed that recycling levels are high for items such as newspapers and glass, but that there is much room for improvement…
