packaging recyclability News

A guide to help plastics recyclers achieve top materials prices, while maximising transport efficiency has been launched by plastics recycling advisors Recoup. The publication Domestic Mixed Plastics Packaging – Recycling Guide focuses on the “big opportunities” and issues that have come with the growth in local authority collections. It sets out specifications to identify which plastics can ...

Mar. 2, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Over 2.5 million tonnes of food/drinks cans and other steel containers were recycled in Europe during 2006. This equates to a recycling rate of 66% - an increase of five percentage points compared to 2005, according to latest figures from the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (APEAL). The statistics show that top performers were Belgium and Germany on 93% and 89% of steel ...

Feb. 18, 2008

By Recycling International part of EISMA Media Group

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has set ambitious targets to recycle more than 70% of packaging waste by 2020 and to make the packaging recovery note system more transparent. The consultation is spilt into three main parts which include: New recovery and recycling targets for packaging waste for 2011-20 for obligated businesses; Strengthened ...

Mar. 7, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

The US Department of Justice has concluded its Hart-Scott-Rodino review of International Paper's (NYSE: IP) announced acquisition of Weyerhaeuser's containerboard packaging and recycling business. Regulatory reviews in several other countries are ongoing. Completion of the transaction is expected to occur in the third quarter of 2008. International Paper announced March 17 it had signed a ...

May 27, 2008

By International Paper

Following an open tender call, WRAP is pleased to announce that it has commissioned Valpak to conduct new research on wood packaging flows. The work follows on from previous WRAP/Valpak projects studying the material flows for glass, metals and plastic and an active project examining paper and card packaging. The wood flow project will provide Defra with robust and independent updated estimates ...

Oct. 20, 2015

By WRAP (The Waste & Resources Action Programme)

The UK has met its packaging recycling and recovery targets, new figures show. The Environment Agency has published the targets on the National Packaging Waste Database for quarter four of 2009. More than 1.86 million tonnes of packaging was recovered and recycled in Q4, meaning that the UK has met its targets. Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) trading platform Environment Exchange managing ...

Mar. 31, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Packaging recycling has significantly increased in Ireland although millions of euros are still being lost due to undeclared packaging levies says Repak. According to the packaging recycling scheme’s figures, for the first time domestic recycling through household recycling collection systems jumped ahead of material collected through bring facilities, such as bring banks and recycling centres. ...

Aug. 24, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

The UK looks largely on track to meet its packaging recycling and recovery targets by the end of 2009, according to industry experts. But achieving the steel target may be difficult. According to figures published last week by the Environment Agency via the National Packaging Waste Database for the second quarter of 2009, more than 1.59 million tonnes of packaging was recycled. This was up from ...

Jul. 30, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Paper recycling in the UK achieves tremendous carbon savings, and it is good to see this reflected in the recent Defra press release on packaging waste recycling targets. The paper industry has already exceeded the proposed targets to 2010 and those in the recent consultation up to 2012. The proposed increases to the targets for UK packaging recycling and recovery suggested by Defra will do ...

Feb. 12, 2008

By Confederation of Paper Industries Limited (CPI)

Waste firms or producers looking to recycle their laminate packaging waste such as drink cartons, toothpaste tubes and coffee sachets can now test this at a new engineering facility in Luton. Privately funded environmental technology solutions firm Enval has opened the new pilot plant in the town. The company, originally a spin-out from the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of ...

Feb. 2, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

John Turner will step down from his seven-year tenure as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Packaging at the end of 2009 to concentrate on other business interests but “not in the waste sector”. Speaking to MRW, Turner said the biggest achievement in his time as chairman was helping to ensure the packaging recovery note system worked as planned and meeting the 2008 European packaging targets. ...

Dec. 1, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Key figures across the recycled plastics, aluminium and wood industries have expressed their concerns over the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs proposed packaging recycling targets for 2020. Some sectors believe the Government’s targets are over-ambitious and need to be revised. They say more infrastructure and work on increasing the recovery rates of materials needs to be put ...

Mar. 9, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Prices for steel Packaging Recovery Notes are set to rocket unless the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs changes its targets for 2009, according to Corus Steel Packaging Recycling manager David Williams. He told MRW that following a meeting last week of the Advisory Committee on Packaging, many of the larger issuers of steel and aluminium were “concerned” that Defra won’t amend ...

Feb. 3, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

The UK has beaten EU targets for waste packaging recovery for 2008 in “the best year yet” according to the latest Government figures. Data from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Environment Agency showed that last year the UK recycled almost two-thirds of all packaging produced in 2008. The National Packaging Waste Database found that businesses helped recover more ...

Apr. 13, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

At the same time, environmental groups say they want to eliminate litter from single-use plastics like bags and cutlery by 2025. The Canadian Plastics Industry Association and the Chemistry ...

Sep. 25, 2019

By Bioplastics News

Both the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party have promised initiatives to improve packaging recycling in their environment manifestos. The Lib Dems clarified their manifesto pledge for a “zero-waste society” by announcing plans to create a statutory duty on retailers and manufacturers to take back end-of-life products and packaging, such as electronics, furniture and plastics. The party will ...

Apr. 25, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) has released a report on the opportunities and challenges for using recycled content in plastic packaging applications. Guidelines for Increasing Post Consumer Recycled Content in Plastic Packaging addresses common issues and strategies for increasing recycled content in common beverage, dairy, electronic, household care and laundry, pharmaceutical, ...

Sep. 20, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

The market for Packaging Waste Recovery Notes is likely to be “difficult” this year as demand for materials drops because of the recession, according to the Advisory Committee on Packaging. The ACP is an advisory committee for the Department for Environment, Food and Environment Affairs which seeks to reduce the impact of packaging and packaging waste on the environment by introducing recovery ...

May 12, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has launched its long awaited Packaging Strategy at the Futuresource Conference. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn was speaking at the event organised by the Charted Institution of Waste Management and the Environmental Services Association at the Excel Centre in London (09 June). ...

Jun. 9, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

A packaging stakeholder insider has told MRW that the new packaging strategy is being delayed because of a question raised at a packaging policy meeting with Environment Minister Jane Kennedy. The insider said that at a packaging policy for England meeting with Kennedy before Christmas, people were asking her:' ‘How can you have a packaging policy without a product policy?’ And that is what they ...

Feb. 3, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company