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UKRI offers firms £24m to deliver Plastics Pact targets
United Kingdom Research & Innovation (UKRI) is to provide £24 million to fund projects run by businesses looking to deliver the UK’s 2025 Plastics Pact targets. The UKRI’s Smart Sustainable...
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Alupro warns of ‘tidal wave’ of plastic from flat fee DRS
The UK may face a “tidal wave” of plastic if it implements a “poorly designed” Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), according to the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro). Alupro assessed a flat...
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‘The government must act now to address single-use nappies’
OPINION: Three billion single-use nappies are thrown away in the UK each year. In this article, David Linden, SNP MP for Glasgow East, discusses the impact of single-use nappies on the environment and...
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Paper Round to trial plastic sorting robotics system
A robotics system will be installed at Paper Rounds’ materials recovery facility (MRF) to trial automation technology used to improve the efficiency of plastics sorting. The system characterises...
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Make recycling the starting point of production processes
OPINION: In this article, Ernst-Jan Mul, innovation manager at Renewi, calls for recycling to be made the “starting point” in the production process of new products. To achieve more and better...
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Planned Welsh plastics plant given Covid-19 loan
Waste management company Orthios has secured a UK government-backed loan to help it develop a 200,000 tonnes per year capacity plastics recycling facility in Holyhead, Anglesey. Close Brothers Asset...
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Opinion: Safety standards and the role of the insurer
Safety concerns and fire risks run throughout the waste and recycling and waste to energy sectors and also relate to the crucial part insurers need to play in driving up safety standards. James...
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Cromwell Polythene ups Alfreton bag making capacity
Cromwell Polythene says it has invested in new machinery and upgraded existing equipment at its Alfreton site to increase its capacity for film extrusion and bag making. Leeds-based Cromwell says it...
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Sainsbury’s trials in-store film take-back
Sainsbury’s has launched a trial system whereby customers can recycle polypropylene (PP) film in-store in 63 branches across the North East. The supermarket chain will partner with...
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What do we know about the Plastic Packaging Tax?
With just more than a year to go until the introduction of the government’s Plastic Packaging Tax, Martin Hyde, policy leader at environmental consultancy Comply Direct, looks at what we do and don’t...
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EA confirms tighter plastic export rules for Turkey
Confirmation of tighter restrictions on the exports of waste plastics for recycling in Turkey has come from the Environment Agency. The restrictions are being seen within the UK’s plastics recycling...
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Brexit ‘increases bureaucracy’ around waste exports
The Recycling Association’s chief executive says the “increased bureaucracy” surrounding the export of waste for recycling since the UK left the European Union is “a real nuisance”. However, while Dr...
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Coral Products sells part of business and acquires CPL
Coral Products announced yesterday (3 March) that it completed the acquisition of Customised Packaging Limited (CPL) for £1.25 million. And, the plastic moulding specialist also announced that it...
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Biffa ups capacity at Washington plastics plant
Biffa has said it will increase the capacity of its plastics recycling plant in Washington, Sunderland, by 14,000 tonnes per year. Biffa’s Seaham plant, which along with Washington and Redcar, will...
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Polymer shortage in Europe ‘impacting production’
The trade association of European plastics converters, EuPC, says a raw material shortage and an increase in price is “seriously impacting” the production of plastic products in the EU. According to a...
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Remove plastic from ‘waste for incineration’, says Eunomia
Plastic must be removed from waste sent for ‘incineration’ to prevent the practice becoming more carbon intensive than landfill by 2035, according to environmental consultancy Eunomia. The consultancy...
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Scotland to review DRS implementation date
The Scottish government is to launch an ‘independent gateway review’ into the implementation date of its deposit return scheme (DRS). Initially planned for April 2021, the ‘go live’ date of a DRS in...
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Treasury predicts 40% jump in recycled plastic use
The use of recycled plastic in packaging will jump by an estimated 40% once the plastics packaging tax has been introduced in April 2022, the Treasury has predicted. The considerable boom in the...
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MPs to hold evidence session on DRS
Representatives from across the waste sector will this week (17 March) sit before cross-party MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee, which is holding two evidence sessions on the Deposit Return...
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Alupro study ‘supports variable-rate DRS’
Most consumers find the concept of a variable-rate Deposit Return Scheme “easy to understand”, the Aluminum Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has said. Alupro has previously warned that a...
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