Waste & Recycling
The latest business news on
waste and recycling, from food and
waste programmes to the recycling of batteries, computers and paint. The latest
Waste & Recycling regulations,
technology and resources for Businesses.
The UK will meet its 2010 Landfill Directive target, the Government announced today.
A study has measured the amount of plastic debris found in a region of the Atlantic Ocean over a 22-year period.
The first anaerobic digestion (AD) plant to inject renewable gas into the National Grid is set to start operating later this summer, it has been confirmed.
Arsenal has become the latest football club to embrace recycled materials in its team's kit.
A £52 million bioethanol plant is set to be built in the North East of England following a £7.3 million Government grant.
Furniture retailer IKEA has launched a recycling employee awareness programme as part of its drive to send zero waste to landfill.
An innovative lightweight bottle designed in Britain has helped the UK wine industry meet tough targets on reducing its glass waste and carbon emissions.
A leading online fashion retailer is to start allowing its customers to trade their unwanted clothes on its site.
TerraCycle is on a mission to get rid of waste in business. Chris Baker, UK general manager of the company, talks to Louise Bateman about the company's unique method of 'upcycling'.
A company that has pioneered the process of 'upcycling’ in the West is reporting strong demand for its services since launching in the UK last year.
A new Government report is calling on UK companies to rethink their attitude to waste management and recognise the business opportunities opening up in the growing waste and recycling sector.
East of England businesses will for the first time have the opportunity to have their food waste turned into bio energy to heat homes and power cars thanks to a new anaerobic digestion facility set to be built in Suffolk.
A consortium of British businesses has netted £7 million of Government funding to develop a technology that could see mini refineries sited near landfill sites up and down the country producing cheap, carbon efficient biofuel for transport from waste.
Major retailers and brands have signed up to new food waste and packaging targets that will see them focus on the carbon impact of packaging rather than its weight and include reducing the carbon impact of all grocery packaging by 10 per cent by 2012.
A waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) processor has opened the UK’s largest facility able to process and recycle hundreds of different household appliances an hour.