13 February 2019Viridor issues lithium ion battery warning after landfill fire
Viridor has issued a warning on the safe disposal of lithium ion batteries following a fire at its landfill site in Dunbar last month. The fire took place in the early hours of January 22 in a ...
18 December 2018Packaging waste ‘immediate priority’ in Defra strategy
Manufacturers of packaging and other consumer products face increased costs for the recycling and disposal of their goods – as government seeks to carry out a major overhaul of the producer responsibility regimes for waste. The ...
15 November 2018WasteCare looks to 2019 opening of battery plant
Recycling firm WasteCare has said that trials of a pilot recycling plant for portable batteries have proved a success and a larger plant is set to open in the New Year. The company has been recycling portable batteries through...
4 October 2018Currys PC World launches collection scheme for used batteries
Currys PC World's home installation teams will offer to collect customers’ used household batteries for recycling when they deliver and install new appliances, as part of a battery recycling scheme. The scheme, which will last ...
24 August 2018Concern as UK continues to struggle on battery recycling target
The UK has failed to make progress in meeting battery recycling targets, with lead acid batteries continuing to make up a ‘disproportionate’ share of batteries collected for recycling, G&P Batteries has claimed. The ...
14 May 2018Schools boost for Duracell and BatteryBack
Alkaline battery producer Duracell has today announced that a scheme it ran last year to encourage children to recycle batteries has seen over 2.3 million recycled. The nationwide initiative, ‘the Big Battery Hunt’, was ...
5 March 2018Serco wins joint Basingstoke & Deane and Hart contract
Serco has been awarded a £44 million eight year joint contract, with a possible eight year extension, to provide waste and recycling services to two Hampshire local authorities. The contract, with Basingstoke & Deane borough...
30 January 2018EU consortium creates urban mining database
Several organisations across Europe have united to create a database of valuable materials available for "urban mining" from scrap vehicles, spent batteries, waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) and mining wastes. The...
18 October 2017News in brief (17/10/17)
With news on: FCC's health and safety accolade; NERF's annual conference; Viridor's call for input into lithium battery detection; ESG's rebranding and Global Recycling Day.
Appointments round-up (15/02/2019) - https://t.co/TquFFXdOlG
London Fashion Week sparks recycling debate - https://t.co/HVlea5PTcj
Latest exhibitors confirmed for @LetsrecycleLive - https://t.co/K5PqEEiqRd
