MORE THAN 100 tonnes of food waste is now being recycled by residents of Wokingham Borough each week. Eight months after the launch of the scheme 3,343 tonnes of food waste have been collected and…
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Can Recycled Rags Fix Fashion’s Waste Problem?
The clothing industry produces tons of fabric that is never sold. FabScrap wants to help. Tucked away in the bowels of the Brooklyn Army Terminal is a 4,000-square-foot warehouse filled from wall to wall and…
It’s time to trash recycling
Traditional recycling is the greatest example of modern-day greenwashing. Recycling is championed as the strategy to enable a cleaner, healthier world by those businesses that have profited the most from the extractive, take-make-waste economy. In…
IK: Design for recycling needed in circular economy
The IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e.V. trade association for German plastics packaging producers and two member companies see work ahead for the group’s “ambitious recycling targets for 2025.” In an online panel discussion, Jürgen Bruder, who…
Letters: recycling is the option of last resort
It’s a delusion that by putting mountains of packaging in the recycling bin our profligate lifestyle is somehow neutralised It’s about time people began to call out carbon offsetting for what it is (“If only…
The Holiday Recycling Naughty and Nice List
This week is one of the biggest recycling weeks of the year, so we’ve put together a holiday naughty and nice recycling list. Most wrapping paper can be recycled, but bows can’t. Hillsborough County recycling…
Rethinking gift wrap in a world of recycling
As unease about waste grows, consumers and companies try to make gift wrap more sustainable Growing unease about waste has some Americans rethinking wrapping paper. Gift wrap is still a huge business. U.S. sales of…
War on plastic waste faces setback as cost of recycled material soars
Europe’s manufacturers face $250m-a-year hit as rising demand drives up price The battle to reduce Europe’s plastic waste could become a quarter of a billion dollars more expensive every year as the cost of recycled…
Beverage companies aim to get bottles recycled, not trashed
Every year, an estimated 100 billion plastic bottles are produced in the U.S., the bulk of which come from three of America’s biggest beverage companies: Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Keurig Dr Pepper. The problem? Only one-third…
RECYCLING SPECIALIST COMPLETES £1.25M INVESTMENT
A Chesterfield-based metal and waste recycling specialist has invested £1.25m in four new material handlers from a global construction machinery manufacturer. Ward has purchased four brand new Liebherr LH40 M material handling machines for the…