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18 May 2012
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Fashion victims
e-textiles: coming soon to a store near you
Talk is 'cheep'
Marketing on a budget
Working in the scrap heap
A day in the life of a scrap metal merchant
Picking scraps
It’s the oldest part of the UK’s recycling sector: long before kerbside collections, steel and aluminium were being reused as scrap. It’s also one of the largest: the metal...
ECO Plastics expands
PET recycler ECO Plastics has opened an extension to their bottle recycling facility in Hemswell, Lincolnshire, making it the world’s largest plastics processing facility of its...
 
Fashion victims
First our phones and now our clothes are going ‘smart’. But what price will the environment pay for newly-gadgetised attire? Libby Peake finds out

 

Talk is 'cheep'
Very few were optimistic about George Osborne’s budget announcements back in March, and rightly so. Confirmation that public spending will continue to fall beyond 2015 is unhappy news for everyone.

 

Working in the scrap heap
Trading Manager Dany Drummond isn’t the sort of person you’d expect would work in a scrap yard. A sparky 20-something who joined SITA as a graduate four years ago, she’s about as far removed from the clichéd image of a metal merchant as you can get.

 

Voluntary agreement seeks to decrease hospitality waste
Food, glorious food. The problem is, we are still wasting far too much of it, even when we don’t prepare it ourselves. A new voluntary agreement to help combat avoidable waste in the hospitality sector is being implemented following a report published last year by WRAP.

 

New waste technologies update
In 2003, the previous government launched a project with the aim of ‘encouraging the development of new technologies for the recovery of value and the diversion of biodegradable municipal waste from landfill’.

 

Recolight updates online booking system for WEEE recycling
Recolight, the not-for-profit recycling scheme for lamps, has updated its online booking system for its business collection points and recyclers across the country.

 

M&S launch sustainable clothing initiative
M&S has launched a new initiative to reduce the amount of clothing that gets sent to landfill in the UK. The ‘shwopping’ scheme will encourage shoppers to donate an item of clothing for each one that they buy. The donations will be collected by Oxfam to resell or recycle.

 

 

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