The UK consistently overestimates the amount of plastic packaging that gets recycled, a report by waste consultancy Eunomia has claimed. A new Eunomia report reveals how the UK consistently overestimates how much of the plastic packaging ...
Tags: plastic packaging, Packaging
Gosport Borough Council and paper cup manufacturer Huhtamaki have initiated a recycling initiative for paper coffee cups in Gosport, UK. Environment Minister, Thérèse Coffey, has today launched a new recycling initiative for ...
Tags: paper cup, paper coffee cup
UK’s workable cup recycling scheme Simply Cups and Smart Planet Technologies (SPT) have partnered to recover and recycle the ‘reCUP’ hot beverage paper cup. The reCUP, which is designed by Smart Planet in California, can ...
Tags: Coffee Cup, Paper Cup
Waste campaigners in the UK are praising Starbucks' latest decision to offer a discount to customers who bring their own cup to the cafe. In Australia, it is estimated consumers use one billion disposable coffee cups each year, and ...
The Department of Resources Engineering under National Cheng Kung University in southern Taiwan has developed a method to separate high-purity silicon and silicon carbide from silicon slurry, a waste from making crystalline silicon solar ...
The scheme, which currently operates within the M25, provides a cost-efficient collection and recycling service to help paper cup manufacturers and organisations operating within the supply chain reduce their operating costs and improve ...
Tags: Huhtamaki, 'Simply Cups', Packaging
Corrugated and plastics packaging company DS Smith has completed the acquisition of remaining 50% stake in Italian recycling company Italmaceri Srl. DS Smith's acquisition of Italmaceri was a part of the acquisition of SCA Packaging in ...
This is in addition to its existing 50% stake in Italmaceri, which it bought as part of the acquisition of SCA Packaging in 2012. Italmaceri is the second largest recycling company in Italy, handling in excess of 500,000 tonnes of ...
Tags: DS Smith, Recycling Company
How many empty beer cans, soda bottles and fifths of vodka did you see as you left that off-campus party last Friday night? Where do you imagine they went the next day when the owners cleaned up the house? For 17 off-campus student houses ...
Tags: Recycles Cans, Glass
Utility and sustainability intersect at Green Machine Cycles, which opened in late September in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood. With a focus on cargo bikes and accessories for everyday use, owner Ezra Hozinsky also aims to reduce the ...
Tags: Bike, Transportation
Susan G. Komen Central Florida and American Textile Recycling Service (ATRS) now offer one more life-saving reason to register for Race for the Cure which takes place on October 6, 2013 at UCF’s Brighthouse Networks Stadium. Race ...
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The winners of the 2013 Queensland Supply Chain & Logistics Awards, held in cooperation between the Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia, Queensland Division, and Telstra Enterprise and Government, All Purpose Transport, ...
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 ...
Tags: Ugusta Glass Recycling, Glass, Construction
Microsoft is shutting down on Sept. 30 its MSN TV service that allowed users to browse the Web from their TVs, as there are now new ways to access the Internet including mobile phones, tablets and its own Xbox console. The Redmond, ...
Tags: Microsoft, MSN TV, web service
According to Luxus bread basket theft and loss has been a problem and has reportedly escalated of late. Luxus are looking to tackle the problem with unique new additives that can be used for traceable bread basket manufacturing. James ...
Tags: Allied Bakeries, Packaging