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Greenstar WES announces record r-HDPE plastic flake production

Greenstar WES has announced record production levels of food grade recycled HDPE plastic in December 2009. Nearly 700 tonnes of food grade recycled HDPE plastic flake was produced at the end of last year, boosting its overall 2009 production total to 5,900 tonnes. December’s flake was integrated into 140 million plastic milk bottles – over half of all plastic milk bottles produced that month. ...

Mar. 2, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Food Recycling Machine Sales to Grow on the Back of Growing Investments in Sustainable Solutions

Fact.MR’s recent study on food waste recycling machine market foresees a promising growth, driven by proactive initiatives for fostering environmental sustainability. An amalgamation of pivotal aspects, ranging from launch of legislation around food waste to rising proclivity for recycling activities, is anticipated to underpin growth potential of the market. The Fact.MR research study ...

May 13, 2020

By Fact.MR

Quest Delivers Keynote on “10 Steps” for Managing Food Waste

Robin Sweere, Sourcing and Consulting Manager at Quest Recycling Services, LLC, was a keynote speaker at the Global Green Coalition For Resource Conservation Conference (GGC), held in New York City, NY on November 14th and 15th, 2011. Ms. Sweere introduced Quest’s “10 Steps” process, which leads service companies to optimize the food waste recycling service and reduce operating ...

Nov. 21, 2011

By Quest Resource Management Group, LLC

Recycling incentive schemes “aren’t necessary” claims May Gurney

Recycling incentive schemes supported by the coalition Government are “unnecessary” according to the head of a leading infrastructure support service. May Gurney Environmental Services managing director Nicola Peake dismissed financial incentives for recycling, commenting: “Financial incentives to recycle aren’t actually necessary.” Peake drew upon the example of ...

Jun. 9, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Launch of ReFood brings new energy to food recycling sector

Food waste recycler PDM Group has entered a joint venture with a German anaerobic digestion technology firm, Saria Bio-Industries, to bring “industrial scale recycling capabilities to the UK”. The collaboration will be known as ReFood and bring a nationwide AD operation to the UK, based on the collection and recycling model already operated by Saria across Germany. Currently, there are four ...

Jun. 18, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

£10,000 in landfill tax saved through Aberdeen’s food recycling scheme

Last summer £800,000 of Scottish Government cash was initially spent by Aberdeen City Council to install food waste recycling bins across 54,000 city homes. Effort have certainly paid off with the equivalent of 43 fully-loaded lorries of potato peelings, leftovers and used tea bags being kept out of landfill sites. An Aberdeen City Council spokesman said: “Under the Waste ...

Apr. 16, 2014

By GPT Waste Management Ltd

EVK entered the Italian market

The Austrian EVK DI Kerschhaggl GmbH, the expert company for industrial image processing in the sorting and monitoring of piece goods and bulk materials in the food, recycling and mining industries, has signed a contract with CFC Electronic S.r.l. a new partner offering industrial image processing solutions to the Italian market. CFC, the Italian sensor specialist, represents industrial image ...

Oct. 16, 2019

By Green Tech Cluster Styria GmbH

Sita trials commercial food waste recycling scheme

Sita has launched a trial commercial food waste collection and recycling scheme in South London. The new initiative, which began this week, collects food waste from businesses around Croydon and Wimbledon using a special vehicle with dual compartments for glass and food waste. Food waste from businesses is collected in biodegradable ‘kitchen caddy’ sized bags, which are then sealed. The ...

Apr. 28, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Minister backs industry’s plans to tackle food waste recycling

Work kicked off on the new action plan for food waste recycling last week, when key players from across the industry got together for the inaugural meeting in Birmingham; initiated by resource efficiency experts WRAP and chaired by waste and resources specialist, Ray Georgeson. Together the group will shape and deliver the plan; working to identify tangible, industry led actions to maximise the ...

Oct. 15, 2015

By WRAP (The Waste & Resources Action Programme)

EPA, USDA Join to Set Nation’s First Food Waste Reduction Goals with Charities and Private Companies

On Wednesday, September 16, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Deputy Administrator Stan Meiberg will join U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack as well as private industry and charitable organizations to announce the United States’ first food waste reduction goals at City Harvest’s food recycling facility in Long Island City, N.Y. The announcement occurs just one ...

Sep. 15, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA recognizes the borough of state college for curbside food recycling

Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency marked the beginning of Earth Week by recognizing State College Borough for its curbside food recycling program. State College is the only town in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that is conducting curbside food waste collection for composting. The program began as a pilot and is slated to go borough-wide in 2013. During the ceremony today at ...

Apr. 17, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Asda store set to send zero waste to landfill

Retail store Asda has reiterated its pledge to send zero waste to landfill from its store in Bootle, Merseyside. Asda is working with Veolia Environmental Services to divert all its waste away from landfill. The store opened in October last year and previously diverted 99% of its operational waste away from landfill (see MRW story). Asda has now removed the store’s waste compactor and has ...

Feb. 4, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

SEaB Energy Open Day

An insight into small-scale anaerobic digestion. The SEaB Energy team would like to invite you to tour an active small-scale anaerobic digester located in Southampton. The event will show you an exemplar business model of on-site sustainability and close-loop, decentralised food-waste recycling. So come and see how you can make your own green energy! For more information on the event and to get ...

May 6, 2014

By SEaB Energy Ltd.

SugaRich invests in new shredding technology for specialist food recycling plant

Food recycling specialist, SugaRich is overhauling the shredding technology it uses at its sophisticated Brackley plant to transform high calorific surplus food into energy-rich animal feed. SugaRich will now feed pallet loads of starch-rich biscuits, bread, crisps and more, straight from their haulage vehicles into a new organic waste shredder from UNTHA. The single shaft technology will then ...

Jul. 12, 2016

By UNTHA UK LTD

Specialist food recycler SugaRich recognised as one of UK’s most inspiring companies

Specialist surplus food recycler SugaRich has earned a place on The London Stock Exchange’s esteemed ‘1000 Companies to Inspire Britain’ list. This landmark project sought to identify SMEs that have the potential to transform the UK’s economic landscape, as it looks to recovery. Recognising the on-going growth of this niche business, the LSE has included SugaRich because ...

Jun. 18, 2014

By SugaRich

Quest recycling wins 2011 business of the year

At their annual banquet and awards ceremony on January 27, 2012, the Frisco Chamber of Commerce named Quest Recycling Services its “2012 Medium-Sized Business of the Year”. Quest was selected from among qualifying businesses in the area for its growth, community involvement, strategic planning, and corporate business models. “Quest is honored to be recognized for the hard work ...

Jan. 31, 2012

By Quest Resource Management Group, LLC

WRAP study creates opportunities for food grade packaging

The Waste & Resources Action Programme has funded a study that will aim to help retailers and brands use recycled polypropylene plastic in food packaging. Polypropylene is regularly recycled into industry plastic applications, such as buckets and pallets, but not into food grade packaging. WRAP has commissioned plastic recycling firm Axion Consulting, in partnership with waste management ...

Apr. 20, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

EPA Announces Regional Food Recovery Challenge Awards on America Recycles Day

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes regional office is marking America Recycles Day with the announcement of six Food Recovery Challenge Achievement Awards. Through the Food Recovery Challenge, EPA encourages organizations to donate food and recycle food scraps to reduce waste, feed the needy and save money. "These sports stadiums and universities -- in Illinois, Michigan, ...

Nov. 15, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Cavendish Conference Venues announce two major Green Initiatives

We have now moved all our electricity supplies from the Megalith that is EDF albeit on a green tariff (Carbon levy exempt) to Ecotricity. The logic is twofold. Firstly we prefer dealing with smaller companies, EDF professes to have somewhere over 100 000 employees, there is just no human face; it is all about systems and processes. Second, EDF produces both clean and dirty electricity, we prefer ...

Feb. 7, 2010

By Cavendish Venues

PDM Group wins food waste recycling contract

Food waste recycler PDM Group has won a contract with commercial caterer BaxterStorey and real estate investment trust Land Securities. London-based Land Securities wanted to ensure that food waste from its canteen did not go to landfill. So its catering provider BaxterStorey joined forces with PDM to collect the waste produced from food preparation and left-overs on a weekly basis. Once the ...

Dec. 15, 2008

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

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