8 October 2018
US warning as Chinese firms look at UK paper mills
The UK government has confirmed that Chinese mill groups are considering paper or pulp production in the UK. But, a top American recycling official has warned of the threat that Chinese investment could pose to existing businesses in the ...
28 September 2018
Quota delays may impact waste paper market
Concerns are growing that quotas for the first part of 2019 may not be issued by the Chinese government until the end of this year at the earliest. As a consequence there could be a surfeit of used cardboard in the market from the end of ...
18 September 2018
Obituary: John Cutts
John Cutts, one of the paper recycling sector’s elder statesmen has died at the age of 79. A former president of both the Independent Waste Paper Processors Association (now the Recycling Association) and the British Waste Paper...
10 September 2018
Restore Datashred opening ‘huge’ shredding plant in London
Restore Datashred, one of the UKs leading supplier of confidential data destruction is set to open one of Europe’s biggest destruction centres based in Crayford, London, 2 miles from its current site. The company said that...
4 September 2018
Brexit uncertainties boost DS Smith in Eastern Europe
Paper recycling and production giant DS Smith today highlighted the ‘sustainability’ of paper and UK uncertainties around Brexit as boosting performance within the business. In a positive three monthly trading statement, group...
16 August 2018
Fire ongoing at Recresco’s Cheshire site
A fire which started two days ago at a recycling plant operated by Recresco in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, is ongoing and could take days to extinguish. It started at around midday on Tuesday (14 August), involving about “600-...
16 August 2018
Collaborating on quality
DS Smith Recycling (UK) managing director, Mat Prosser, explains to Steve Eminton how a collaborative approach to quality in fibre supply is paramount. For Mat Prosser, managing director of DS Smith Recycling (UK), the need to ...
15 August 2018
Cups and cartons HWRC pilot launches in Cornwall
Cornwall council and ACE UK have launched a pilot to offer collection points for cartons and paper cups at seven of Cornwall’s household waste recycling centres (HWRCs). Residents are being urged to take their empty food and ...
10 August 2018
Campaign targets contamination in Salford
Recycle for Greater Manchester has teamed up with Salford city council on a campaign to target unwanted materials ending up in the recycling. According to Recycle for Greater Manchester – the public facing brand of the Greater ...
Investigation underway into Restore Datashred fatality - https://t.co/EzSLX6WiC7
RECOUP calls for collaboration on plastics - https://t.co/8dfpHPDSHq
Obituary: John Simmons - https://t.co/VTYPgyvAMK
