food recycling News
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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 ...
By Untha UK Ltd
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Eriez-Australia Opens Perth Sales and Service Centre
Magnetics specialist Eriez has opened its newest sales office in Western Australia, replacing its long-time sales representative organisation Western Process Equipment (WPE) with an Eriez-owned and operated sales and service centre. WPE served Eriez customers in Perth for more than five decades, offering an extensive line of Eriez equipment, most notably in the mining and minerals processing ...
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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 ...
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Multiple technical challenges can deter closed loop recyclers, UK conference hears
Overcoming the multiple technical challenges that create barriers to entry is a deterrent to many recyclers seeking to achieve closed loop recycling, delegates at an international plastics recycling and recovery conference heard. Using practical examples of successful trials and case studies, two experts from resource recovery specialists Axion Consulting highlighted the benefits of this approach ...
By Axion Group
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M&S `closes the loop` with food-grade recycled plastic
For the first time, Marks & Spencer this week will sell food packaged with plastic recycled in Britain. The retailer has worked with plastic recycling plant Closed Loop Recycling and packaging supplier Reynolds to supply it with food-grade recycled plastic. M&S’ salad boxes are the final step in a project to create a closed-loop for plastic food packaging in the UK, in which used ...
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Axion: targets for recycled content in food packaging need care
Setting minimum targets for recycled content in food packaging may sound like a good idea, but could lead to overall less efficient use of resources if material types and their applications are not carefully considered, cautions Richard McKinlay, Head of Circular Economy at resource recovery specialist Axion. It’s widely acknowledged that to make recycling more economically viable, an end ...
By Axion Group
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Big guns join battle against packaging waste
Some of the biggest companies in the country have joined forces to cut the amount of packaging they use for their products. Coca-Cola, Nestle and Cadbury Schweppes are among nine high street names that have signed the government-backed Courtauld Commitment packaging reduction agreement. In doing so they have pledged to halt packaging waste growth by next year, deliver cuts by 2010 and find ...
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Tidy Planet signs exclusive Italian partner to help reduce country’s food waste
Macclesfield-headquartered Tidy Planet has expanded its operations into Italy, appointing environmental solutions firm Ecologia Soluzione Ambiente (ESA), as the exclusive Italian partner of its food waste composting technology. The move aims to promote greater resource efficiency - through using food waste recycling solutions - across the Italian and Egyptian markets. ESA – the 17 ...
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The UK’S hospitality and food service sector bill tops £2.5bn
WRAP identifies astounding £2.5 billion food waste bill in the UK’s hospitality and food waste service sector An astounding £2.5 billion food waste bill in the UK’s hospitality and food service sector has been identified by WRAP, the organisation that supports businesses and individuals in developing sustainable products, reduce waste, and use resources in an efficient ...
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Axion’s research reveals ‘good’ potential for automatic sorting of waste plastic food contact packaging
Automatic sorting systems designed to boost the recycled content of plastic food packaging could be available within a few years, claims resource recovery specialist Axion Consulting. Following its technical research undertaken for WRAP, Axion says major breakthroughs in sorting technologies could increase the recycling of an estimated 180,000 tonnes of waste polypropylene (PP) pots, tubs and ...
By Axion Group
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RecyclePak Provides a New Approach to Recycling & Waste Management for Veolia Environmental Services
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 recyclable materials, with a dedicated bin/receptacle for each stream. RecyclePak therefore is now not only related to the recovery of ...
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Hospitality and Food Service Agreement (HaFSA) first year results published
The first year results of the Hospitality and Food Service Agreement (HaFSA) published today by WRAP, show signatories have made over £10 million worth of savings by reducing food waste alone. The progress made against the waste prevention target shows a reduction in CO2e associated with food and packaging waste of 2.5%, against the overall target of a 5% reduction by the end of 2015. ...
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Legacy vital to success of zero waste Olympics
Sustainable packaging made from plants is set to play a major role at the London Olympics but it will all be for nothing if brand owners, waste management companies and event organisers fail to build on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This is the warning of bioeconomy consultants and advisers to the London Olympics, NNFCC. On the 27th of July the eyes of the world are set to descend on ...
By NNFCC Ltd.
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Axion: Are biodegradable plastics better for the environment?
Plastics are indispensable in many areas of our modern lives, yet questions over the material’s sustainability are rarely out of the headlines these days. Are biodegradable, compostable and bio-plastics really a better environmental solution? Richard McKinlay, Head of Circular Economy at resource recovery specialist Axion, offers his opinion. Plastic materials that at end of life can ...
By Axion Group
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Courtauld results show packaging down and food redistribution up
The first year results of the Courtauld Commitment Phase 3, released today by WRAP, show an approximate 4.5% reduction of the carbon impacts of packaging, while food waste prevention efforts have led to 80% more food being redistributed. Signatories’ efforts to reduce packaging, increase recycled content and use different packaging materials has contributed to a significant reduction in ...
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Accelerated Actions, Transformative Approaches, and Laser Focus Make Arizona State University Excel as a Sustainable Campus
At Arizona State, the bar is sky-high when it comes to how the university runs its daily sustainable campus operations. It continues to be recognized as a model for sustainability; Arizona State University (ASU) was recently named on The Princeton Review's 2012 Honor Roll of the nation's "greenest" universities. For the fourth consecutive year, The Princeton Review has recognized ASU for ...
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Liberty Coca-Cola Breaks Ground on First Quadgeneration Plant in United States
Today, Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages (Liberty) joined with state and local elected officials, community stakeholders and businesses to break ground on the quadgeneration production plant at the local bottler’s Elmsford facility. The plant will be the first of its kind in the country to generate its own electricity, heat, cooling and recover carbon dioxide (CO2) for beverage use. Generating ...
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Prague Zoo composts food waste and compostable packaging
Prague Zoological Garden opened in 1931 with the goal to “advance the study of zoology, protect wildlife, and educate the public”. The zoo occupies 58 hectares (140 acres) with 50 hectares (120 acres) in use for exhibits, and housed around 5,000 animals from just 676 species, including 132 species listed as threatened. The Prague Zoo has 2 restaurants, 7 cafes and many refreshment ...
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Food Waste Depackaging Machine
Siedon Technology Co., Ltd. has successfully developed a food waste depackaging machine in order to solve the difficult problem of organic matter extraction in food waste. The depacker solves the technical problems of incomplete separation of organic matter and inorganic matter in the project process, serious waste of organic matter and high operating cost caused by poor pulping effect. The food ...
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WRAP reviews de-packaging equipment
The Waste and Resources Action Programme has reviewed de-packaging equipment for food waste in order to encourage more efficient food waste reprocessing. WRAP commissioned SLR Consulting to review available equipment which segregates packaging from food waste. The Review of Food Waste De-packaging Equipment was published on 4 August. The review provides anaerobic digestion and in-vessel ...
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