kerbside recycling News
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Axion & PlastiCircle develop new uses for non-bottle PET waste
Recycled polymers from waste plastic packaging can be used in non-packaging applications, reports Axion, one of 20 organisations involved in PlastiCircle, a pioneering pan-European research project. The €8.6 million EU Horizon 2020-funded project has been working for the past four years to optimise the collection, transport, sorting and recycling of kerbside collected plastic packaging with ...
By Axion Group
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Get ready for your new, greener IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) Magazine
The first edition of your new-look IOSH Magazine will reach you soon. It’s been completely redesigned to deliver better content and many other benefits. It will also have less impact on the environment. From March 2020, IOSH Magazine becomes a larger publication that members receive every two months. This will allow us to give you more in-depth analyses, richer features and better ...
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Evian Unveils Refillable Device in Bid to Slash Plastic Waste
French bottled water company Evian is set to begin trials of a new refillable in-home water appliance next month, in a bid to gauge consumer appetite for lower-plastic alternatives to single-use bottles. Called the Evian re-new, the device consists of a rigid plastic base and a collapsible five-litre “bubble” container, which houses the product refill. The container is made of 100% ...
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Paper and Cardboard Recycling Industry Launches New Initiative to Help Councils Improve Quality of Recycling in a Changing Market
The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has today announced the formal launch of OUR PAPER, a new programme to support councils in improving the quality and quantity of paper and card separately collected for recycling. OUR PAPER is an initiative that promotes the value of paper that local councils collect on behalf of the public, a resource that generates income from our recycling services. ...
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Axion: £100m investment needed for flexible plastic recycling in UK
Most flexible plastic packaging can be recycled, but investment of £100 million in collection, sorting and recycling infrastructure would be needed to make it happen in the UK, according to resource recovery specialist Axion. “The big problem is the lack of adequate facilities designed to process these largely-recyclable materials,” says Richard McKinlay, Axion’s Head of ...
By Axion Group
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Axion Consulting: Co-mingled collections only work when supplying top-quality MRFs
Co-mingled collections are the way forward for councils needing to reduce costs and increase capture of dry recyclables to improve their kerbside recycling rates, claims a leading resource recovery specialist. Axion Consulting says a ‘consistent’ approach to these collections will make life easier for householders and should recover more materials for reprocessing. However, ...
By Axion Group
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Axion Consulting: helping councils move waste up the hierarchy
Tighter budgets and the need to increase recycling rates are prompting more local authorities to seek expert help to extract more value from the household waste they collect, according to Axion Consulting, a leading resource recovery specialist. Axion, which regularly provides support to local authorities, says demand for its range of waste evaluation services is rising as councils look for ...
By Axion Group
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Recycle Now campaign launches new Recycling Locator
WRAP’s Recycle Now campaign is supporting partners in their efforts to increase effective recycling with the launch of the Recycling Locator. The online tool is designed to help make recycling information clearer and more straightforward for householders, so they can easily find out how and where items can be recycled locally. It allows householders to identify the materials that are ...
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Communication with householders is ‘missing piece of the recycling jigsaw’, claims Axion Consulting
Recycling rates in England are stalling because around half of all householders fail to recycle properly due to confusion and misunderstanding over what goes in which bin, claims Axion Consulting. Spending more on communicating with them could generate significant behaviour change and lead to improvement in the quality and quantity of kerbside recyclables, suggests the Manchester-based ...
By Axion Group
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Radical rethink needed to maximise UK recycling rates
Conflicting opinions in the debate over future UK recycling rates are clouding the issues of what is realistically achievable and how challenging targets could be met, claims a leading resource recovery specialist. Commenting on industry concerns that England may miss its 50% by 2020 recycling target, Keith Freegard, Director of Axion Consulting, suggests a radical rethink is needed in the ...
By Axion Group
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Waste Issues on Local Council Elections
177 million tonnes of waste is generated in the UK alone each year. In 2011 an review of England’s waste policy presented 13 commitments designed to address issues including energy recovery, food waste and waste collection, with the goal being to lead the UK towards a ‘zero waste economy’. Despite these commitments, the Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs ...
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Axion Engineering shows the lighter side of recycling technology at RWM 2011
Resource recovery specialist Axion Engineering makes its sales and marketing debut with NESTRO Lufftechnik GmbH at the UK's premier waste management show RWM 2011 to showcase NESTRO’s range of highly-efficient air separation technologies for diverse waste material streams, including those from kerbside recycling, mixed plastics, paper/card/wood, energy from waste and construction sectors. ...
By Axion Group
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Axion Engineering expands its recycling machinery range
Axion Engineering has signed a sales and marketing agreement with NESTRO Lufftechnik GmBh to promote and sell NESTRO’s air separation products and technologies in the UK and Ireland. Established in 1987, NESTRO operates from several sites across Europe and has over 250 employees. NESTRO designs and produces innovative air separation products and vacuum systems for sorting lightweight ...
By Axion Group
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Wealden council issues RCV tender for kerbside collection expansion
Wealden District Council has issued a GBP£1.5m tender notice for up to ten new refuse collection vehicles, in order to extend its kerbside recycling service across the district. The three year contract calls for 26 tonne ‘twin pack’ waste collection vehicles, with bin lifts, which will enable the council to collect two waste streams simultaneously from their kerbside caddy ...
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Pre-treatment offers rapid gain for recycling volumes, says Axion
Pre-treatment of residual household waste before final disposal offers an effective way to get a rapid gain in recycling tonnages and overcome the stubborn ‘ceiling’ levels collected from committed recyclers, new research by Axion Consulting suggests. According to the recycling specialist, many local authorities are augmenting their existing recycling schemes with large bulk ...
By Axion Group
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Reducing bin size and taking action against residents to encourage recycling
New measures to reach ambitious recycling targets, including taking enforcement action against those who fail to recycle, are to be decided on by Bristol City Council. The council’s cabinet will make a decision on two new schemes, designed to help the city reach a 50% household recycling target, by the end of the year. The first scheme, ‘Recycling for All’, will be trialled in around 20,000 ...
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"Move on" from collection debate
The debate around whether kerbside or commingled recycling collection systems are best should “move on” according to local authorities. Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) communications officer Lee Marshall told MRW: “One size does not fit all and we shouldn’t be having this debate anymore. We should be focusing our resources and energies on the ...
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CRR slams `selective` WYG report
The Campaign for Real Recycling has rubbished the findings of the WYG report commissioned by Greenstar and dismissed its data as “third hand”. Published yesterday, ‘Review of Kerbside Recycling Collection Schemes Operated by Local Authorities’ said that while there was no “one size fits all” collection solution for local authorities, there was clear evidence to back the success of commingled ...
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`Simple truths and facts` supporting commingled published
“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 is “no one size fits all” ...
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Tetra Pak kerbside recycling reaches a quarter of all local authorities
A quarter of UK local authorities are now offering kerbside recycling collections for Tetra Pak since the scheme was introduced in Watford. This means that now a total of 86% of all authorities offer some kind of recycling provision for the cartons whether this be at the kerbside or via bring banks. Tetra Pak has been working with the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment to ...
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