Consumers are exasperated with manufacturers that do not make any effort to reduce their packaging.
… Brooker | 17th October 2018 News Waste And Recycling Packaging Plastics Supermarkets … asking them what frustrates them most about recycling to find out what irritates people the most about recycling in the UK. They found the biggest …
For regions with adequate space and little recycling infrastructure, disposing of bottles in landfill generates a lower carbon footprint than recycling or incineration...
… Landfill could be greener than recycling when it comes to plastic bottles … | 8th September 2010 Comment PET Plastics Recycling Landfill Carbon Dioxide Incineration … For regions with adequate space and little recycling infrastructure, disposing of bottles …
The UK exports plastic its waste around the world - causing environmental and social injustices. But what is the solution?
… 10 percent of it is recycled. Not only is our recycling system overwhelmed but we’re also … We use too much of it It’s great we’re recycling more, but we don’t have capacity to … of plastic. There isn’t enough closed loop recycling Recyclists have a higher chance of …
A group of leading business have launched a global initiative aimed at jumpstarting the plastics circular economy.
… 2019 News Plastics Circular Economy Waste And Recycling Science & Systems plastic_waste.jpg … He said: “When we put [these items] in our recycling back in the UK, we think we’re doing … sense that despite increasing efforts at recycling, there is still no guarantee that …
MPs say the government should review systems where customers can reuse and refill plastic containers.
… The government has unveiled plans to improve recycling rates, with a greater responsibility … and more consistency in local council recycling collections. The committee's report … authorities collect the same plastics for recycling will make it easier for packaging to …
A private member's bill that would see supermarkets and other retailers forced to take responsibility for the packaging on their goods has been debated in the Commons.
… Supermarkets Retail Retailers Waste Packaging Recycling Food And Farming Society A private … debated in the Commons. The Retail Packaging Recycling Bill, sponsored by Liberal Democrat … to which customers could return packaging for recycling. But the bill has provoked a …
The success of Blue Planet II has transformed Britain into a country were millions of people are extremely concerned about the impact plastics are having on our marine and local environments. Scientists have now announced that they have discovered an enzyme that can break down this waste so it can be more easily recycled, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE
… problems. The discovery could result in a recycling solution for millions of tonnes of … which is thought to have evolved in a waste recycling centre in Japan, allowing a … improve these enzymes, moving us closer to a recycling solution for the ever-growing …
Oxford scientists launch ambitious roadmap for circular carbon plastics economy.
… Another problem is the lack of effective recycling – in 2019, only nine per cent of the … turned into new products through mechanical recycling. The majority ended up in landfills … plastics which are recoverable, maximising recycling very significantly, targeting 95% …
Calls to bring forward ban on recyclable material sent to landfill increase, as reports emerge of big increases in the quantity of textile waste being dumped
… 19th January 2010 News Waste Food And Farming Recycling Landfill Renewable Waste And Recycling textiles.jpg A million tonnes of …
Plastics are the green topic du jour. LOUISE DAVIES asks what the vegan movement can learn from plastic-free campaigners
… environments for foods and medical products. Recycling systems But in the mid-1970s the … plastics. The industry responded by adding a recycling logo to their products and some recycling systems were implemented, but little …
Sylvia's office gets a new, green employee, and she begins to hatch plans for changing her ready-meal-eating, email-printing, energy-burning colleagues...
… last week for putting dirty tissues in the recycling bin. A heinous crime, enough to turn …
Little angers environmentalists more than receiving food or products in Styrofoam packaging, and now the Californian Ocean Protection Council has called for a blanket ban on the use of the material in food containers across California.
… EPR Campaigns Fast Food US Plastics Recycling Packaging Recycling Pollution Waste And Recycling News web pic 2_2.jpg Little angers …
The local council in San Francisco, California, has set a precedent by becoming the first US city to vote to ban large supermarkets from handing out plastic bags, Reuters has reported.
… US Politics And Economics Waste And Recycling News web pic 2_177.jpg The local … San Francisco has operated plastic bag recycling schemes for some years, they have … returning just one per cent of their bags for recycling. The city currently uses 181 million …
Convenient, flimsy, costly, cynical, manipulative, wasteful, deadly...we'll never forget the plastic bag
… Whales Pre-Industrial Pollution Waste And Recycling plasticbag.jpg Convenient, flimsy, … it to be incinerated. Nor does it account for recycling. Depending upon whom you ask, the … count reusing a bag once as a bin-liner as 'recycling'; the less partial BBC would say …
Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports.
… Development Education Population Cars Recycling Green Living Society Archive_21.jpg … a group of youths who are working on local recycling and composting programmes. They go …
A new Vegan Society campaign encourages small dietary shifts for big environmental benefits.
… switching to energy-saving lightbulbs or recycling. All of these little switches are … to reduce our impact on the planet. Recycling A 2017 study found that eating a … four times more than hang-drying clothes or recycling, and eight times more than switching …
A unique winery in Western Maharashtra is utilising water recycling, solar power and waste reduction in an effort to avoid the environmental damage linked to wine production in California
… in Western Maharashtra is utilising water recycling, solar power and waste reduction in … One of the key aspects of this water recycling is to 'put back as much of the waste …
Many of the substances that make wastewater a pollutant can also be useful as fertilisers for agriculture and in generating gases for small power stations, says report
… March 2010 News Food And Farming Waste And Recycling Energy Water Pollution Natural World …
An estimated 12 million tonnes of plastic flows into our oceans each year so no wonder we're facing one of the biggest litter crises our planet has ever seen. LAURA BRIGGS reports
Plastic Pollution of the Oceans has reached crisis point LAURA BRIGGS | 27th October 2016 Ethical Living Plastics Oceans Pollution Crisis plastic-bottle-606881_1280.jpg An estimated 12 million tonnes …
Divine chocolate has blazed an ethical trail with its pioneering business model and Fairtrade principles. But does ethical also mean green? Divine MD Sophi Tranchell says that for her company, it does
… back into the soil as fertiliser – it’s pod recycling.’ Growing the cocoa beans isn’t the …
Campaigners have welcomed chancellor Philip Hammond’s call for ideas on financial carrots and sticks to drastically cut single-use plastics in his spring statement. However, they stressed the need for more rapid action, reports CATHERINE EARLY
… Policy Air Pollution Plastics collected for recycling (c) Pabak Sarkar Campaigners have … is separately considering incentivising recycling of drinks containers, including …