The best features in recycling

22 May 2013
Last updated: 13 hours ago
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Gunter Pauli, author of The Blue Economy: 100 Years, 100 Innovations, 100 Million Jobs talks to Charles Newman about why we should be letting nature work for us

 

Toys can provide hours of entertainment, but can be a disposal nightmare at their end of life. Annie Reece takes a look at how the toy industry has been playing around with sustainability…

 

Zero Waste Scotland recently launched nine pilot projects that reward consumers for recycling their used drink containers. Iain Gulland tells Resource what he hopes the trials will achieve

 

Deposit-refund schemes: some love them, some hate them. Resource sums up the main issues surrounding this contentious recycling issue

 

South Australia has a very established deposit-refund scheme that has been operating since the ’70s. Susanna Prouse finds out how the system has evolved and whether the rest of Australia could soon follow suit

 

With co-mingling here to stay, MRFs will remain an integral part of the UK recycling scene. But how can they deliver the right quality of material? Will Simpson finds out if the proposed MRF Code of Practice sampling regime is up to the task

 

Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority launch £130,000 Community Fund to encourage recycling in local areas.

 

Axion Polymers develops ‘first post-consumer recycled plastic’ that is safe enough to use in toys.

 

Grocery brands pledge to cut 1.1 million tonnes of waste by 2015 as the third phase of the Courtauld Commitment begins.

 

The Department for Energy and Climate Change awards £21 million to businesses for ‘innovative low carbon products’.

 

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