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Biffa seals plastics deal with Müller UK
Biffa has won a contract to supply dairy company Müller UK with food grade recycled High-Density Polyethylene (rHDPE) plastic to be used in all its milk bottles. Continuing a working relationship which...
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Jayplas commits to UK with £10m film plant
Jayplas has asserted its commitment to recycling in the UK in the wake of opening a “state-of-the-art” plastic film sorting facility near Birmingham. The £10 million plant is located at the plastic...
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Mixed recycling ‘doubles contamination’
Commingled recycling collections can lead to twice as much contamination when compared with separate streams, according to paper recycling specialists DS Smith. The company said today (27 February)...
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Viridor launches plastics collaboration project
Viridor has today (27 February) announced a collaboration aimed at allowing Wales and the south west of England to give all plastic consumed in the area a “recycling solution”. At its ‘Rubbish to...
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Clear on Plastics to ‘bust myths’
Resources charity WRAP is to launch a campaign this week called ‘Clear on Plastics’, partly in an attempt to justify the rationale for using plastics packaging. Explaining the new campaign, Peter...
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Legislation to ban plastic straws enters parliament
Legislation to ban the supply of plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds has been laid in Parliament today (March 3), in a bid to reduce the impact of single-use plastic waste on the environment. In...
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VIDEO REPORT: Using energy derived from a waste to energy plant to serve the plastics recycling/reprocessing process is “long overdue”, according to Phil Piddington, managing director of Viridor. Waste...
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Veolia ‘refocusing’ paper business
Veolia’s chief operating officer, Estelle Brachlianoff, who was the company’s UK chief executive, has spelt out how the company is tackling the sharp fall in recovered paper prices to ensure...
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Plastics tax ‘not yet backed by producers’
Producers will only support a ‘plastics tax’ if there is evidence that money raised will be reinvested into the recycling system, according to the Food and Drink Federation (FDF). David Bellamy, senior...
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Plastic market facing coronavirus pressures
With economic concerns spreading over the impact of the global coronavirus outbreak, plastics recyclers are the latest to signal that the market is facing price pressures and weaker demand. One...
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Plastic alternatives ‘not the answer’
The head of circular economy at Defra warned yesterday (10 March) that switching to biodegradable plastics is not the answer to reducing the UK’s reliance on single-use plastic packaging. Maya de Souza...
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Plastics tax set at £200 a tonne in Budget 2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak used today’s (11 March) Budget to announce that the tax on plastic packaging containing less than 30% recycled content will come into force in April 2022, and will be set at £200...
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Packaging data sparks plastic PRN optimism
Packaging data for the fourth quarter of 2019 has sparked optimism from the compliance sector about 2020 PRN prices. In particular, the figures are seen as indicating that the price of packaging...
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Wales to ban single-use plastics
The Welsh Government is to ban single-use plastics from mid-2021 as part of wider measures to make Wales “the world’s top recycling nation”. The single-use plastics to be banned include straws,...
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Contamination warning as waste plans ramp up
London Councils — the local government association for Greater London — has warned that avoiding contamination in recycling is now “more important than ever” as it enables operatives to do their job...
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Plastic recyclers expect coronavirus hit, BPF says
Almost 80% of companies in the plastics industry anticipate the coronavirus affecting their turnover during the next six months, according to a report published by the British Plastic Federation (BPF),...
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Charge waived for online delivery plastic bags
The 5p single-use plastic carrier bag charge has been waived for bags used in online grocery deliveries in England as of 21 March, with this temporary measure expected to end on 21 September. Speaking...
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Crews remain at ‘significant’ plastics fire
The Cleveland Fire Brigade has said it will remain on the scene of a “significant fire” at a plastics recycling facility owned by Greenology in Cleveland, North Yorkshire, for a few days. Fire crews...
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Recycling Technologies temporarily closes Swindon plant
Swindon-based company Recycling Technologies has announced that in light of the coronavirus pandemic it is to close its demonstration-scale plant at its Cheney Manor site temporarily. The company says...
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Defra postpones plastic straws ban
Defra has delayed by six months the introduction of a ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds due to the “huge challenges posed to businesses and local authorities by COVID-19″. Initially due...
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