Welcome to 2020!!! Tired of the same old new year’s resolutions? You know, the ones you abandon before February? 2020 is the dawning of a new decade, not just a new year – why not resolve to recycle more where you work, live, learn, buy, and play? It’s not only...
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January 5th, 2020 by Charlotte Rumsby
Can you recycle Christmas paper and cards? A guide to festive recycling dos and don’ts. Here’s a guide on what to recycle and what you should NEVER recycle at Christmas . It’s the same every year. Those beautiful-looking presents we’ve spent so long over – carefully wrapping, decorating with bows...
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December 10th, 2019 by Charlotte Rumsby
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air. Type of activity you can carry out This includes: a landscape gardener has trimmed hedges and branches and wants to burn them on a bonfire at the same place...
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November 2nd, 2019 by Charlotte Rumsby
Huggies has become the first leading baby wipe brand to announce plans to completely eliminate plastic from its baby wipe range in the UK over the next five years. 14.8 billion baby wipes are used in the UK every year, equating to 468 every second – many of which contain a...
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October 24th, 2019 by Charlotte Rumsby
Tim Elliott, principal consultant at Eunomia Research & Consulting, says how we measure recycling is changing. One of the most striking images for anyone in the UK waste sector this summer has been of our contaminated plastic waste piling up at sites across South East Asia. It’s little wonder, then, that...
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September 9th, 2019 by Charlotte Rumsby
A new report by World Resources Institute lays out a Global Action Agenda to overcome the world’s food loss and waste problem. The UN set a global goal to cut food loss and waste in half by 2030. Alarming figures show just how big of a challenge remains. Nearly a third of...
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August 30th, 2019 by Charlotte Rumsby
Kickstart the domestic market so Asian countries rejecting Australian waste is no longer a problem, industry suggests Australia could quickly solve the problem of Indonesia and other countries rejecting its waste if governments invested in recycling manufacturing as promised and required the use of recycled material in public projects, industry and environmental...
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July 11th, 2019 by Charlotte Rumsby
East Hampshire district council will end its waste agreement with Winchester city council this summer and begin a new partnership with Havant borough council. The waste agreement between East Hampshire and Winchester will end on September 29 following the conclusion of its current arrangement, which had been contracted to Biffa....
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June 13th, 2019 by Charlotte Rumsby
Harrogate borough council has issued a reminder to residents not to dispose of lithium ion batteries within mixed dry recyclable waste, following a small fire in a recycling collection vehicle this week. The incident occurred yesterday morning (14 May) in a split-body vehicle collecting recyclable waste from households. Collection crew...
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May 16th, 2019 by Charlotte Rumsby
Tesco are soon to accept bread bags, crisp packets, pet food pouches and more. UK supermarkets are said to generate around 800,000 tonnes of plastic packaging every year UK householders routinely throw bread bags into the recycling bin – but they are usually incinerated. Tesco has introduced an in-store recycling...
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April 3rd, 2019 by Charlotte Rumsby
