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BPF Unveils Vision for 100% Reused, Recycled or Recovered Plastic Packaging by 2030

May 24, 2018

The British Plastics Federation (BPF), the trade association for the UK Plastic Industry, has released a plan to make 100% of plastic packaging reused, recycled or recovered. The intention forms part of a document, Plastics: A Vision for ...

Tags: Plastic Packaging, Packaging

Food and Rural Affairs Is Managing and Coordinating Trials

Mar 23, 2015

Funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Action Based Research programme, following a scoping exercise in 2014, Anthesis LRS is managing and coordinating trials, with cross-sector collaboration from ...

Tags: Flexible Laminated Packaging, Packaging

Anthesis LRS Is Leading a Project to Assess The Feasibility in Household Recycling Schemes

Mar 23, 2015

Global consultancy firm Anthesis LRS is leading a project in partnership with Nestlé UK and Ireland and Coca-Cola Enterprises to assess the feasibility of including flexible laminated packaging in household recycling schemes and ...

Tags: Nestle, Coca-Cola, Packaging

Recycling Is Great When It Works

Aug 19, 2014

Recycling is great when it works. To make it work, recyclable glass has to be separated from all the other material that ends up in recycling bins. In the UK, glass manufacturer, Ardagh, has just signed a fifteen year agreement with ...

Tags: Recycling, Packaging, Printing

Ardagh Is Partnering Reuse to Increase The Volume of Cullet

Aug 19, 2014

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 ...

Tags: clear glass, Ardagh Glass, Recycling Push, Packaging

Ardagh Group Has Signed a 15-Year Agreement with Reuse to Expand Glass Recycling in The UK

Jul 24, 2014

Luxembourg-based Ardagh Group has signed a 15-year agreement with West Yorkshire-based Reuse to expand glass recycling in the UK. The company has joined forces with the Australian recycling and waste management company United Resource ...

Tags: Ardagh Group, Reuse, Packaging

Steve Morgan,Said While The Figures Were Encouraging,More Needed to Be Done

Feb 28, 2014

Nampak, producer of plastic milk bottles, commissioned the survey which found that 316,054 tonnes of plastic bottles were collected for recycling in 2012, and of those, 96,396 tonnes were HDPE milk bottles. Steve Morgan, technical manager ...

Tags: Milk Industry, Recycling Practice

The Introduction of Zero to Landfill Project

Dec 26, 2013

This project that was instigated by BPIF labels and PRISMM Environmental back in April 2013 is now gathering momentum. ?The project designed to reduce the amount of production waste going to landfill by diverting this waste to energy ...

Tags: Office Supplies

Countless Millions of Pounds of Leftover Food Go to Waste Every Single Year Around World

Nov 19, 2013

Countless millions of pounds of leftover food go to waste every single year around the world, and a UK group has decided to put that waste to good use. Utilizing a roughly $1.2 million grant given to it from a waste minimization ...

Tags: UK, leftover, waste, fertilizer, organic, garden

Roadmap Work Highlighted The Importance of Packaging Impacts in The UK Soft Drinks Sector

Oct 30, 2013

The supply of recycled material is not the issue; demand for recycled material has to be created by innovation in the sector. I recently presented a selection of the packaging-related outputs of BFF's work with Defra to develop a UK Soft ...

Tags: Packaging, Printing, Plastics Recycling

The Facility Near Halifax Boasts Enough Capacity to Recycle up to 40% of The Cartons Used

Sep 5, 2013

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 ...

Tags: Carton Recycling, Packaging.Printing

The Call Was Made at a Parliamentary Reception Last Week Hosted by Plastics 2020

Jul 5, 2013

The call was made at a parliamentary reception last week hosted by Plastics 2020, the industry umbrella group run by the British Plastics Federation (BPF), the Packaging and Films Association (PAFA) and Plastics Europe. The plastics ...

Tags: Packaging, Printing, Plastics Industry

Resource Minister Lord De Mauley Has Visited Continuum Recycling

Jun 3, 2013

Resource minister Lord de Mauley has visited Continuum Recycling – the plastic bottle recycling joint venture between Eco Plastics and Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) – to mark the completion of the plant’s first full year in ...

Tags: Lord De Mauley, Continuum Recycling, Resource

Environment Agency Revealed Five Companies Under The PRN and PERN Systems

Feb 18, 2013

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

SWEEP Kuusaksoki Has Installed The 'world's First' Glass Furnace

Oct 31, 2012

WEEE recycler SWEEEP Kuusaksoki has installed the ‘world’s first’ glass furnace capable of recovering pure glass and lead from leaded cathode ray tube (CRT) glass, at its facility in Sittingbourne, Kent. The furnace, which ...

Tags: market view, glass furnace

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