commingled recyclables News

Commingled collections of recycling are the worst option for local authorities, according to new research from the Waste & Resources Action Programme. In what may be seen as a controversial move, WRAP has stated that sorting household recycling at the kerbside is the best and cheapest option in most cases. However, the organisation recognises that it is up to local authorities to decide which ...

Jun. 9, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Veolia Environmental Services deputy chief executive Paul Levett has criticised the Waste & Resources Action Programme report that source separated or dual stream collection methods are better than commingled. In the report, Choosing the right recycling collection system, WRAP stated that single stream commingled collections are the least effective solution in terms of cost and materials ...

Jun. 10, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Relative price stability in the recycled glass market could prompt a re-evaluation of local authority commingled collections. While other materials have experienced instability or dramatic price drops, glass has changed very little. The materials prices and tonnage security could be an attractive factor for cash strapped councils currently examining the impact of collection costs on their ...

Nov. 11, 2008

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Commingled collections could stunt the increase of textile reuse or recycling if not ‘controlled’, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs believes. In its report ...

Jan. 25, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Switching to commingled collections does significantly increase recycling tonnages, according to Greenstar UK. The recycling firm discovered an average 78 per cent improvement in recycling tonnages across five local authorities which have switched to commingled collections. One local authority increased its tonnages by 190 per cent. Chief executive Ian Wakelin said: “Greenstar collects ...

Aug. 19, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Recycling-led waste management specialist Greenstar UK has welcomed WRAP’s report, Choosing the right recycling system, which confirms, again, that commingled recycling collections should remain an option for local authorities.The report, published to coincide with the FutureSource exhibition in London, concluded that kerbside sort collections should be preferred over single or dual stream ...

Jun. 15, 2009

“New facts” and “important impartial evidence” that will reignite the commingled vs kerbside sort debate have been unveiled by a new report on recycling collection systems. ‘Review of Kerbside Recycling Collection Schemes Operated by Local Authorities’, a four month study conducted by consultants WYG and commissioned by recycling firm Greenstar, concluded there ...

May 5, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

UPM, the world’s ‘largest’ user of recycled fibre in graphic papers, is expanding its interests by building its first materials recycling facility for commingled dry recyclables. The firm is investing £17M into a materials recycling facility at its Shotton paper mill in North Wales ‘to source high quality paper from co-mingled sources’. UPM head of recovered paper sourcing Craig Robinson said: ...

Jan. 5, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Tewkesbury Borough Council has awarded a £1.68m recycling contract to Pure Recycling. The agreement will see Pure Recycling – which today announced it has been acquired by construction firm Kier – processing commingled dry recyclables from 36,000 households. The firm will take paper, card, cardboard, aluminium and steel cans, mixed glass and plastic bottles. ...

May 17, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Residents who recycle can earn points to redeem at local shops and businesses in a pilot scheme being trialled out in parts of Berkshire. The pilot is being carried out by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It aims to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and cut the council’s “landfill tax liability”. Wheelie bins will be weighed when collected and points allocated to each ...

Mar. 4, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council has renewed its recycling services contract with Verdant for a further 10 years. The renewed contract started in May and continues the collection of single stream commingled dry recyclables from wheeled bins used by the council’s 59,000 households. The Council’s director of regeneration and environment Peter Hunt said: “Blackburn with Darwen ...

Jun. 8, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

It is up to recycling reprocessors to increase the quality standard of the material they require for material recycling facilities to work to that standard, according to a Norfolk-based MRF operator. Speaking to MRW Indigo Waste Services managing director Gary Lee said that MRFs are only working to the standard that reprocessors, such as paper mills, want the material to. “If people [recycling ...

Apr. 14, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

China’s recyclate inspection agency, CCIC, has awarded Greenstar UK’s Aldridge materials recycling facility quality “rare” approval. Greenstar invested £7million developing the “state-of-the-art” MRF, near Birmingham. Chief executive Ian Wakelin described its CCIC accreditation as “strategically important” and “rare”. He said: “In these tough times, when national and international markets have ...

Jan. 15, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Press statement: DS Smith has re-affirmed its commitment to drive up recycling standards after the latest Judicial Review for segregating waste ruled in favour of the Welsh Government and Defra’s approach. Both wanted to see segregation take place when technically, environmentally and economically practically (TEEP) appropriate. The Campaign for Real Recycling, of which DS Smith is a ...

Mar. 7, 2013

By DS Smith - recycling division

Greenstar UK has won a four-year contract to provide BT’s recycling service. Awarded by Monteray, which manages and collects general waste from around 2,000 BT sites, Greenstar will help the telecommunications company to significantly increase its recycling rates. In 2009, BT recycled half its total waste and reduced the amount of waste sent to landfill by 17% against 2008’s figure. Greenstar ...

Apr. 7, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

An initiative that combines new recycling technology and a commingled collection system has reduced the amount of waste Horsham council sends to landfill by 35%. Over the last year the ‘Acorn+’ scheme, has introduced a single bin for dry recyclables, one for garden waste and a third for non recyclables to 40,000 homes in the Horsham area. The new collection routine was ...

Jun. 2, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

A rallying call for continued support for quality recycling collections has gone out to Welsh Recycling Minister Jane Davidson. In an open letter to the Minister, Campaign for Real Recycling chairman Mal Williams, asked Davidson to resist the pressures of the credit crunch and back quality materials. “There is still a healthy and enduring UK market for good recyclable material,” he said. Import ...

Jan. 13, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

A survey has found that 41% of small firms with four or fewer employees are 'illegally' using their household waste routes to dispose of recyclates. Commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ...

Apr. 1, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

A combination of social demographic and geographical factors influences local authority kerbside dry recycling performance, according to new research by the Waste & Resources Action Programme. The report called Analysis of kerbside dry recycling performance in England 2007/08 looks at a wide range of factors that exert an influence on recycling performance, including population density, ...

Dec. 8, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

As a leader in waste management and recycling within Australia, Veolia Environmental Services can help businesses to reduce waste and recycle more, by implementing the RecyclePak system. RecyclePak offers businesses the opportunity to divert a vast range of ...

Apr. 28, 2011

By Veolia North America, Industrial Business