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Rainham’s Ecotech enters administration
EXCLUSIVE: Plastic bottle recycling business Ecotech London Ltd has entered administration, dealing a further blow to the UK’s plastics reprocessing sector. The East London-based business closed it...
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Knowaste resubmits nappy plant plans
Hygiene waste company, Knowaste, has resubmitted plans to build a nappy recycling facility in Hayes, west London. The planning application claims the £15m facility will process at least 36,000 tonnes...
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Goodwin speaks of ‘pride and progress’ at leading WRAP
WRAP chief executive Dr Liz Goodwin, who steps down from the post on Thursday (30 June), has described her time at the organisation as the most ‘fulfilling’ 15 years of her life and has praised the...
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Monoworld sorting mixed plastics at Rushden PRF
Plastics recycling firm Monoworld Recycling is accepting mixed plastic polymers for sorting, following the opening of its £9 million plastics recycling facility (PRF) in Rushden, Northamptonshire. The...
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News in Brief (04/07/2016)
With news on: Riverside hosts Malaysian delegation; Grundon on cycle safety; FCC service landmark; Cromwell bags boost, and; J Denham scrap export. Malaysian minister visits waste Riverside EfW...
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Veolia to revive Closed Loop bottle recycling plant
Veolia has acquired the assets of Euro Closed Loop Recycling – the HDPE milk bottle recycling business in East London – and is to re-open the bottle recycling facility which has been shut down for...
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Swindon council to pilot plastics-to-fuel technology
Swindon borough council is to pilot an innovative piece of technology that promises to turn mixed non-recyclable rigid plastic waste into a sulphur fuel replacement product. The council is working with...
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Cardboard price rises in commodity lift
Prices paid for used cardboard and some plastics grades have risen since the EU referendum vote on 23 June, by 10% or more. The boost to the used cardboard price and for similar brown grade material...
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Plastic Expert opens Gosport recycling hub
Hampshire-based recycling firm Plastic Expert has opened a depot in Gosport, capable of handling roughly 10,000 tonnes of recovered plastics from businesses across the region. The facility, which is...
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Knowaste nappy recycling plant rejected
Knowaste’s revised plan to build a £15 million nappy recycling plant in Hayes, west London has been thrown out by Hillingdon council in a damning assessment of the proposals. Planning officers cited...
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Bag recycler PlasRecycle in administration
The company behind a £12 million plant set up to recycle LDPE plastic bags in Woolwich, West London – which was backed with funding from WRAP and the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) – has been...
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CK Group becomes latest plastics recycler to enter administration
CKN Holdings, the parent company of the CK Group of plastic recycling and export companies, has been placed into administration, with two of its sites having been bought by a company run by a former...
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Steel recycling soars in latest packaging data
The amount of steel packaging recycled in the second quarter of 2016 has spiked according to provisional data released by the Environment Agency on Friday (22 July). And, nearly all other materials...
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TV coffee cup crusade provokes mixed industry response
Waste management firm Veolia has unveiled plans to develop a new paper-pulping facility in an attempt to address ongoing concerns over disposable cup recycling – which will come under renewed scrutiny...
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Minister Coffey hails carrier bag decline
Environment minister Thérèse Coffey has hailed the impact of the 5p carrier bag levy in England, with data released on Saturday suggesting that the measure has led to a substantial drop in bag usage....
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News in Brief (03/08/2016)
With news on: Northern Ireland minister hails waste figures; Recycling scheme rewards residents; MFGF supports for Not-for-Landfill campaign; Bournemouth council aims for plastic record, and;...
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WRAP revises paper and wood packaging forecasts
Long-awaited estimates for the amount of paper and wood packaging likely to be recycled by 2020 have been published by WRAP today (4 August). The Wood Flow and Paper & Card Flow reports, which have...
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News in brief (16/08/2016)
With news on: Broadland recycling reward scheme; Resources published for Recycle Week; Welsh waste review published; Charity calls for deposit scheme, and; Argyll and Bute moves to three-weekly...
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CCIC joins Recycling Association to push export quality
Pre-shipment accreditation body China Certification & Inspection Group (CCIC) has joined the Recycling Association – calling for closer ties between the recycling industry and end users of material...
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Ecotech sale ‘not possible’ say administrators
EXCLUSIVE: Administrators for the East London plastic bottle recycler Ecotech have ended their search for a buyer for the business, after it was found that ‘significant hurdles’ were in the way of...
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