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New partnership between Budget Pack and CCR UK to provide unrivalled compliance management and ‘next generation’ take-back solutions across the UK
Reverse Logistics Group, the parent company of CCR Logistics Systems AG and its UK subsidiary, CCR UK Ltd, and Budget Pack have agreed a working partnership which acknowledges their shared commitment to providing a forward-thinking compliance scheme solution and ‘return-to-value’ waste management approach for companies and organisations of all sizes across the UK. Under the new partnership agreement, Budget Pack will take on the compliance sc... [more]
Climate Change Minister encourages skills for the Green Deal and launches The Green Deal Skills Alliance
Climate Change Minister Greg Barker recently launched a partnership to ensure the UK has the right skills to implement the Green Deal, the government’s flagship policy to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The Green Deal aims to enable private firms to offer consumers energy improvements to their homes, communities and businesses at no upfront cost and to recoup payments as a charge in instalments on the energy bill. The Green Deal... [more]
Optimistic outlook for UNTHA UK in 2012
Industry experts at shredding technology leader UNTHA UK have predicted strong performance for 2012, not just for the company but for the entire recycling and waste management sector. Here, UNTHA UK managing director Chris Oldfield shared his forecasts for the year ahead, and explained what he’s got in store for one of the industry’s freshest brands. “2011 was the year that more and more organisations really started taking their approach to... [more]
Recycling becomes easier with Krushr
Krushr is designed with the aim to take the hard work out of recycling. The Recycling Guide states that 9 out of 10 people would recycle more if it were easier. It enables for the easy storing and storing of rubbish and recycling in one convenient place. Krushr is a unique range of units that allow you to easily sort, crush and reduce your recycling volume by up to 75%. Vic Sinclair, buyer for large appliances at John Lewis says, "With the b... [more]
Eco-innovators UK recycling businesses will receive dedicated funds
Following the launch of the new Eco-innovation Action Plan (EcoAP) by the EU, there are subsidies, training and funding available to businesses driving products, techniques, services or processes which are environmentally sound ? i.e. they aim at the prevention or reduction of environmental impacts or contribute to the optimal use of resources. Eco-innovators are expected to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to use resources such as water ... [more]
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The problem of plastic
ONE issue which was brought up at Saturday s screening of Al Gore s film was that of plastic recycling. In Hitchin there is no council-owned plastic recycling centre and to get to the nearest site – the Household Waste Recycling Centre on Blackhorse Road,
County Passes Program to Increase Plastic Recycling | The Daily Nexus
The Santa Barbara County Public Works Dept. approved a plastic bag recycling initiative on Monday that allows residents to dispose of the containers in blue curbside recycling bins.
Industry fury over unfair and unachievable UK plastic packaging recycling targets
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) this week slammed Government plans to almost double plastic packaging recycling targets over a five year period which will see them climb to 57% by 2017.
Pafa weighs into government over recycling targets
The trade body representing the packaging and film sectors in the UK has added its criticism of the government's proposed targets for plastic recycling, labelling them “unachievable”.
Plastic Eating Fungus Can Breakdown Electronic Waste in Landfills
Researchers from Yale found a plastic eating fungus in a tropical rain forest in 2011, and the prospect of breaking down electronic landfill waste is now very real. In fact, several types of fungus are able to break down many types of toxic chemicals, but one particular kind can eat polymer polyester polyurethane or PUR.
Double-digit growth in US film and bag recycling
Plastic film and bag recycling in the US is on the increase, jumping 14% in 2010 to 971.8 million pounds, according to a new report. The annual increase is the first of more than 3% since 2006.
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The new report on plastic film and bag recycling is encouraging, but it's not going to end the debate on grocery bag taxes and bans.
Image Microsystems Wins Green Reverse Logistics Award for Second Straight Year
AUSTIN, TX and LAS VEGAS, NV-- - Image Microsystems -- a leading provider of technology restoration, reverse logistics, e-waste recycling, and MicroStrate® recycled plastic products manufacturing -- today ...
Recycling taking plastic bags
Plastic bags, the bane of the environmentally conscious everywhere, suddenly don’t appear so bad after all thanks to the recycling programs in Santa Barbara County.
Bristol-Based Recycling Operation Sets New Record
The regional recycling center collected more than 20,000 tons of glass, paper, metal and other recyclable trash in 2011, a new record, the Tunxis Recycling Operating Committee reported.
