North West Leicestershire partners with Breast Cancer Charity
North West Leicestershire district council has announced it is partnering with Against Breast Cancer charity organisations to offer bra recycling collection bins for local residents.
The charity works with The Recycling Clothes Company Limited who sell them on to independent traders abroad.
For every kilo collected Against Breast Cancer receives 70p that goes towards funding research for breast cancer.
Councillor Michael Wyatt, portfolio holder for community and climate change for the council, said: “This is a wonderful initiative that not only prevents material from going to landfill and giving it a new lease of life, but also supports vital research into breast cancer.
“Thank you to everyone involved in the project for providing these recycling bins.”
Dundee launches recycling app
Dundee city council has launched an app for recycling and waste.
The Scottish council’s app includes real-time push notifications for service changes, personalised bin collection calendars, bin collection reminders, seasonal recycling tips & advice, and a Council-created guide on how best to recycle or dispose of household items.
Heather Anderson, climate, environment and biodiversity committee convener said: “I’m very excited that we’re in a position to now announce the launch of this new waste and recycling app for the city. I’m sure it will bring many benefits to residents when downloaded.
“With tailored information and personalised features, the app will make the process of recycling and appropriately disposing of waste easier for many Dundee residents.
“We’ve added this tool because we want to tackle any uncertainty individuals might have around how specific items should be recycled, keep users right up to date with their services, and if they so wish, set up reminders so they don’t miss out on their bins being collected too.
“All of this contributes to helping our service run efficiently and delivering as best a service to our customers as possible. The app has been pulled together following feedback from residents and has been carefully designed following what has worked elsewhere in Scotland.”
Essex announces partnership with reuse firm
Essex county council has announced it has joined forces with the Lighthouse Furniture Project to reuse larger electrical items.
Under the new partnership residents can donate unwanted larger electrical items such as washing machines and cookers to ten recycling centres across the county including Braintree, Chelmsford, Colchester and Harlow.
The Lighthouse Furniture Project repairs and refurbishes the items. Once tested, they are passed on or sold at affordable prices in the local community.
Councillor Peter Schwier, climate czar and Essex county council cabinet member for environment, waste reduction and recycling, said: “With this project we are avoiding sending good quality items to landfill and showing how reuse and repair can work. We are supporting local communities, promoting the circular economy and protecting the environment.”
Chase Plastics in concerns over ‘anti-plastics rhetoric’
“Widespread anti-plastic rhetoric poses a substantive threat to the UK plastic packaging industry,” says Chase Plastics.
Chase Plastics is a UK based company with a factory in Suffolk which manufactures recycled plastic pellets.
The plastic recycler said “the recent rush to alternative packaging formats often ignores the lightweight, durable and hygienic properties of plastic in favour of packaging mediums that are perceived to be more sustainable, but which may in fact have a greater environmental impact.”
David Harris, chief exectuvie of Chase Plastics said: “As consumers, we have all seen the recent shift from plastic to other packaging formats despite the well-known environmental benefits of plastic as a lightweight, high-performance packaging medium. It is vital that the plastics industry responds to this by highlighting the benefits of plastics packaging – especially that manufactured with recycled content – as a sustainable packaging format to both brand owners and consumers alike.”
“Where they find that plastic provides the best environmental solution, brand owners should highlight this to demonstrate that they are working with the most sustainable medium available for their application and not just following a trend.”
“Plastic has a lot to offer. Durable and lightweight, it protects and preserves products to ensure they arrive in excellent condition following which it can be recycled for re-use. The Plastic Packaging Tax should be a mechanism that will help us transit from a linear (plastic) economy to a truly circular (plastic) economy so reinvestment of the revenue raised back into our plastics recycling infrastructure should be a priority.”
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