The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), US has reinforced its opposition to the use of degradable additives in existing as well as potentially recyclable bottles, containers and films. APR director Steve Alexander said it ...
The programme has covered 31 local authorities and, according Rick Hindley, executive director of the scheme’s programme managers Alupro, MetalMatters has been aided by the combination of the public and private sector. The programme ...
UK-based environmental solutions provider Valpak has sold its materials recycling facility to JWS Lancashire supported by JWS Recycling Services (JWS). The Preston facility was bought by Valpak's recycling arm Valpak Recycling North West ...
The news came from the Environment Agency, which revealed yesterday that five companies, who were not named, had “been identified as not meeting their obligations” under the PRN and PERN systems. “The relevant agencies are ...
Tags: Five Companies, Investigation, UK Recycling, 2012
US-based Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and the Coca-Cola foundation have announced a call for applications for the 2013 Coca-Cola/KAB Recycling Bin Grant Program. The Coca-Cola/KAB Recycling Bin Grant Program, funded through a $300,000 ...
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Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and The Coca-Cola Foundation today announced a call for applications for the 2013 Coca-Cola/KAB Recycling Bin Grant Program, a program designed to expand and support recycling in communities across America. The ...
Tags: KAB, Coca-Cola Foundation, Packaging Recycling Grant Program
UK-based Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) has said that it expects manufacturers and compliance schemes to meet their glass packaging recycling obligations for 2012 and has warned of enforcement action on those who ...
Tags: Defra, glass packaging recycling, food industry, food packaging
Malta-based GreenPak said the country's packaging waste recovery efforts were falling short of its European quotas as the process is split between two operators. GreenPak's 12-member team, which operates from its offices in Fgura and is ...
At the end of June 2012, Wrap launched the Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement with the broad aim of reducing food and associated packaging waste. But what does this mean for the foodservice packaging sector and what steps can be taken to ...
Jenni Spinner, Senior Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/4/2012 7:00:00 AM While sustainability is growing ever louder as a packaging buzzword, a wealth of questions about the concept and its potential impact on the industry remain. On ...
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The recycling rate for all aluminium packaging in the UK based on the figures released by Defra show that it has increased by more than 4% putting the overall recycling rate at 45%, according to the Aluminium Packaging Recycling ...
Tags: Aluminium Packaging Recycling, Packaging Recycling, metal packaging
UK-based Pyrolytic recycling specialist Enval has procured premises to build its first commercial scale microwave induced pyrolysis system for recovering energy and materials from foil-containing flexible packaging. The new premises in ...
Tags: Pyrolysis Packaging Recycling Plant, foil-containing flexible packaging
UK-based consumer products maker Unilever has teamed up with US-based environmental research company Earth911 to check if it is economically viable to recycle deodorant packaging. The aim of the project, with supporting partners Next life ...
Tags: Unilever, Deodorant Packaging Recycling, deodorant packaging
The delayed quarterly reprocessing data for packaging in the third quarter of 2012 was published on the Environment Agency’s (EA’s) National Packaging Waste Database website on Tuesday night (23 October). The figures, which were ...
Tags: market view, Glass recycling