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Leeds rolls out PTT and carton collections
Residents in Leeds will now be able to recycle pots, tubs and trays (PTT) and cartons via their kerbside collections. Leeds city council announced last week that it will expand the range of plastics it...
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Recyclers launch second farm plastics scheme
A second voluntary scheme for the collection of farm films in the UK has been announced by a group of plastic recyclers, just one month after another scheme was launched. This week (18 November)...
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Unilever signs recycled plastics deal with Viridor
With demand for recycled plastic set to soar, Unilever has signed a five year contract to secure material from Viridor’s plastics reprocessing plant in Avonmouth. Unilever is to source recycled plastic...
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Can industry rejects carbon claims by Coca-Cola
Can manufacturers and recyclers have leapt to the defence of aluminium cans after the chief executive of Coca-Cola suggested that the cans have a higher carbon footprint than recycled PET bottles....
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Lib Dems outline waste pledges in 2019 manifesto
The Liberal Democrats have outlined a series of pledges on waste and recycling in the Party’s General Election manifesto, including a 70% recycling target and proposal to end waste plastic exports by...
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Indonesian stoppage adds to waste paper woes
A halt to inspections of recyclables destined for reprocessing in Indonesia starting from this Saturday, 23 November, is fuelling the view that the waste paper market is facing a “crisis” situation in...
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Labour in manifesto vow to end waste plastic exports
The Labour Party has vowed to end the export of plastic waste and invest in a “new plastics remanufacturing industry”, as part of a series of waste and recycling pledges in its 2019 manifesto. Launched...
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Uncertainty over Resource Association future
An announcement on the future of the Resource Association is expected this week. Founded eight years ago in 2011 as the trade body for the reprocessing and recycling sector, the association was an...
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Viridor signs recycled plastics deal with INEOS
Chemicals company INEOS has agreed a deal with waste management company Viridor to produce “high-specification polymers with more than half post-consumer recycled content”. As part of the agreement,...
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Pennon profits jump as review looms
Viridor’s portfolio of Energy from Waste (EfW) plants are “consistently outperforming investment”, its parent company Pennon said today in its half year results. And, Pennon said that Viridor’s...
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Accreditation suspended for plastic packaging waste exporter
The Environment Agency announced on Friday 22 November that an exporter of plastic packaging waste for recycling had its accreditation for issuing evidence for plastic suspended under the PRN system....
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Private investment firm backs Impact Recycling
Private investment consultancy firm IW Capital has invested £2m in plastics manufacturers Impact Recycling, a subsidiary of BP Chemicals. According to Impact Recycling, the investment will be used to...
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Plastic packaging waste exporter’s suspension lifted
The Environment Agency has reinstated accreditation under the PRN system for plastic packaging waste exporter Roydon Resource Recovery, it confirmed today. This comes just five days after the Agency...
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Viridor strikes further Avonmouth plastics deal
Viridor has signed an agreement with packaging producer Klöckner Pentaplast (kp) to supply it with 8,000 tonnes per year of recycled plastic. The five year deal will see food packaging specliaist kp...
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Recycled PET ‘better than alternatives’, says Belu
UK bottled water firm Belu has announced today that it is moving all of its bottles to 100% PET recycled plastic, as it has the “lowest carbon footprint” when compared with alternatives. Belu describes...
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Chemical recycling debate continues as deals struck
Both Geminor and Recycling Technologies have today (December 10) announced deals involving the chemical recycling of plastics. However, this comes amid a statement from FEAD, the European Federation of...
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Agency allows time to prepare for POPs rules
With changes looming in the classification of waste plastic produced by the treatment of some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), the Environment Agency is to allow an interim period for...
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ASA ponders Smartwater investigation
Coca-Cola has confirmed that its GLACÉAU Smartwater bottles are now made from 100% recycled plastic, fulfilling a pledge made in the summer of 2019. The announcement comes as the company’s recycling...
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Briefing paper published ahead of Environment Bill return
With the Environment Bill expected to be reintroduced later this month, a House of Commons Library briefing paper on plastic waste in the UK has been published. While the Environment Bill – which...
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Green Alliance warns of ‘plastic alternative’ impacts
Environmental think-tank the Green Alliance has warned that companies are on the verge of switching from plastic to materials with a “greater environmental impact”, because of public pressure. The...
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