Kellogg has announced new global sustainability commitments in two areas – responsible sourcing and natural resources, that are actionable until 2020. "This company was founded on the belief that there's an inherent goodness in ...
Ardagh has three glass manufacturing plants in Yorkshire, and is partnering Reuse to increase the volume of cullet, which has so far boosted recycling for clear glass by 12%. West Yorkshire based Reuse is one of the UK’s leading ...
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The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK has welcomed the latest figures, which it said was equivalent to approximately 425,000 tonnes of cartons recycled, and also showed the total recovery rate was now 71% across the ...
The Australian Packaging Covenant (APC) has launched an online tool to help packaging suppliers decide whether their packaging can be classified as recyclable in Australia. The ultimate goal is to reduce consumer confusion about packaging ...
Showyin's OAM, he said, honoured and humbled him. That he was reinforces that Showyin deserved the recognition. Let's look at the honour. Before stepping down late last year, Showyin had served as the Aerosol Association’s ...
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Recycling campaigns are not without their detractors as their results are often met with more than a little scepticism and their long-term value often questioned. However, a number of communication programmes, developed by the Aluminium ...
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Flight Plastics has unveiled its new plastic packaging plant at Lower Hutt in New Zealand to produce food grade PET packaging from recycled PET (RPET) flake. The new plant is claimed to be the first in the country to offer plastic ...
The APC received the nicest Christmas present last year – an overall 64.2 per cent recycling rate for post consumer packaging in 2013, which represents a 65 per cent jump from 2003's baseline of 39 per cent. Glass recycling increased ...
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The amount of money the Palmerston North City Council is making out of recycled glass looks likely to double since new glass collection trucks went on the road in January. The drivers of the trucks sort glass into colours at the kerb, ...
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A $30,000 investment in more glass recycling bins for Palmerston North drop-off centres is expected to pay for itself within nine months. The city council's finance and performance committee last night approved the spending on nine ...
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The 'Household Waste – Saved from Landfill' range is manufactured from flexible plastics collected in the UK and is claimed to be a world first for the recycling and film industries. Launched at the Recycling and Waste Management ...
Minister for Resource Management, Lord de Mauley, officially opened the UK's only dedicated beverage carton recycling facility, located in Stainland (near Halifax), West Yorkshire (3 September). The new facility in Stainland near Halifax ...
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) UK and Sonoco Alcore will open a new beverage carton recycling facility in Stainland (near Halifax), West Yorkshire. The plant, which is a joint initiative between the two ...
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Lochhead believes schemes which offer people in Scotland an incentive for recycling drink containers could help tackle Scotland's litter problem. 'Recycle and Reward' In Scotland, eight different 'Recycle and Reward' schemes have been ...
THE Leeuwin Lions Club is set to wrap up its glass recycling service in Augusta, with glass collection to cease all together. See your ad hereThe club has managed the collection and sorting of glass disposables for nearly 30 years but ...
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