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Supermarket chain Tesco has today announced that it is to stop selling plastic-wrapped multipacks and allow consumers instead to have multibuy deals on tinned food from 2 March. And, the supermarket chain said trials it had ...
North Ayrshire council has granted waste management company Doveryard Ltd permission to build a 180,000 tonnes per annum capacity energy from waste (EfW) plant in Irvine. The plant, sited at the Oldhall West Industrial Estate, ...
Total food waste levels fell by 480,000 tonnes between 2015 and 2018 – a 7% reduction per person – according to a report published today (24 January) by sustainability charity WRAP. The data has been released as part of an...
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has published a price list of what a “legitimate” waste carrier would charge in parts of Wales, warning that anything below this should be treated with caution. This comes as the regulatory body ...
A woman from Kent whose family ran an illegal waste storage and processing business at their farm near Faversham has been jailed for 30 weeks. An Environment Agency statement explained that Lucy Mete, 26, was sentenced at ...
There needs to be "universal separate food waste collection" to deliver the government’s net zero greenhouse gas emissions target by 2050, according to a report published today, 23 January, by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).
East Northamptonshire council says it has gathered approximately 13 tonnes of small waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) since a weekly kerbside collection was launched last month. On 09 December, the council announced...
The impact of the EU’s Single Use Plastics (SUP) Directive could be diminished by potential ‘loopholes’, a report from consultancy Eunomia has warned. The Single Use Plastics (SUP) Directive passed into EU law in June 2019 ...
Portsmouth city council has today (January 22) announced plans to ‘prioritise’ the recycling of food waste over plastics in the wake of 42 containers of plastic waste being returned to the UK by Malaysia. On Monday (20 January...
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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 ... read more
RT @DacorumBC: Over 300 million tonnes of packaging is produced every year, including unnecessary fruit and veg packaging. Next ti… https://t.co/AcDXTnXrTd
North Ayrshire approves Doveryard EfW - https://t.co/SKlUpnBLwO
Norfolk to reduce waste sent to Great Blakenham - https://t.co/JwnHV3Z7Xu
Thinking PRNs – Angus Macpherson
OPINION: Angus Macpherson, managing director of the Environment Exchange, looks at what is ahead for the Packing Recovery Note (PRN) market in the new year. ... read more
