Recycling news for October 2023
Here's our roundup of recycling news for October 2023 - including the developments around banning disposable vapes and new materials old clothes can be recycled into.
Category: World News
Recycling News – June 23
Welcome to our recycling news roundup for June 2023. This month we talk about issues around recycling disposable vapes, a new initiative to recycle plastic credit cards as well as Dunelm’s textile recycling programme.
Covid: Figures show pre-pandemic fly-tipping rise across England
Councils in England dealt with more than 976,000 instances of fly-tipping in the year up to the start of the coronavirus pandemic, figures show. It was a 2% rise on the 950,000 incidents in 2018-19, with just under two thirds made up of household waste. The most common places for...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): disposing of waste
How to dispose of your personal or business waste, including face coverings and personal protective equipment (PPE), during the coronavirus pandemic. This guidance applies in England only. Find information about recycling during the coronavirus pandemic on the Recycle Now website. This guidance does not apply to healthcare settings including: hospitals primary...
After the Covid-19 crisis, will we get a greener world?
Pollution and emissions are down, but we will squander these gains if governments fail to push ahead with decisive change The current crisis has revealed a sobering truth: the global economic shutdown, which has been achieved at a devastating social cost, has barely dented our carbon emissions. The latest analysis,...