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OPINION: ‘Collaboration needed across the value chain’ 16 June 2025

29 April 2025 ESA: UK-wide kerbside WEEE collection could save £6bn The resources and waste sector is currently experiencing an epidemic of waste fires related to waste electricals and batteries. However, the Environmental Services Association (ESA) and consultancy Eunomia have estimated that the nationwide implementation of kerbside collection for waste batteries and electricals could save £6 billion across the next decade. According to a new report, the savings would principally come from the prevention of waste fires, which is estimated to cost the UK over £1 billion a year, alongside increased recycling. Here the ESA unpacks the issue and the benefits of a kerbside collection service. Video credit: ESA 2025

9 April 2025 Food Waste Conference March 2025 Thinking of attending a letsrecycle.com conference? Here's our reporter Savannah with a behind the scenes look at our busy National Food Waste Conference, with 225 delegates in attendance. Thanks to our sponsors Biffa, Keenan Recycling, Bartec, BioteCH4, British Bins, c-trace, The Compost Bag Company, Dennis Eagle, Glasdon, Hillend Engineering, Leafield Environmental, metroSTOR, Severn Trent, Storm, Trest and Wybone.

26 February 2025 Inside Black Soldier Fly farming at MYGroup Letsrecycle.com reporter Savannah Coombe visited MYGroup’s The Maltings facility in South Milford near Leeds to learn more about Black Soldier Fly (BSF) farming. BSF farming is not new to the waste industry, MYGroup itself has been working with the flies for a number of years to create an Insect Protein Meal product for the aquatic feeds market. The waste management company announced in January 2025 that it had opened its first on-site BSF farm in Yorkshire. Featuring footage of real fly larvae, this video feature goes behind the scenes of BSF farming at the South Milford site and explores what lies ahead for the sector. MYGroup said that it sees black soldier fly farming as the future of both food waste management and the protein industry. Group director, Steve Carrie, called the flies the “heroes of the future food system”. In time, the group hopes to breed its own colony here at the very site featured in this video.

5 February 2025 INTERVIEW: The challenges faced by the used textiles industry Letsrecycle.com reporter Savannah Coombe spoke to Tosh Vyas, director of Fortune Eximports, and Mohammed Patel, business development manager at the Textile Recycling Association (TRA), to discuss the challenges facing the used textiles industry. They discuss geopolitical issues that have affected trade including the war between Russia and Ukraine and the crisis in the Suez Canal. Patel explains the steps the TRA is taking to address the issues and how the charity retail sector can help. Vyas goes into why shipments containing “waste” that was classified as “textiles” may have been impounded by the Environment Agency. Finally, they discuss whether there is any value to the collection of “bric-a-brac” and the future of the used textiles industry.

10 October 2023 ESS Expo 2023 | Extended Interview with Mike Maudsley, Enfinium Letsrecycle.com editor, Josh Doherty interviews Enfinium CEO, Mike Maudsley at ESS Expo 2023.

10 October 2023 ESS Expo 2023 | Extended Interview with Mark Hayton, EGGER Timberpak

11 September 2023 How Suez cleaned up after Notting Hill Carnival

30 August 2023 Eco Sustainable launches £2.5m wash plant

19 July 2023 Rishi Sunak on EPR and price rises

12 July 2023 Material Focus battery fire campaign

15 March 2023 Sir James Bevan, the chief executive of the Environment Agency, discusses waste exports at an EFRA Committee meeting

9 February 2023 Coffey discusses EPR and consistency- February 2023

7 December 2022 Interview with Cathy Cook, LARAC chair, on 29 November

28 November 2022 Carl Beer, chief executive of the MRWA, speaks with letsrecycle.com as he prepares to stand down from the role. Carl Beer, chief executive of the MRWA, speaks with letsrecycle.com as he prepares to stand down from the role.

12 September 2022 Cyklpoint director Michael Sant - September 2022

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