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Career File

Working in the scrap heap

Trading Manager Dany Drummond isn’t the sort of person you’d expect would work...

A man of metal

Aluminium is endlessly recyclable and an old drink can can be turned into a new...

End of the road

Most of us have a vague notion of what happens to a car at the end of its life...

Character File: Jennie Price

After six years heading up the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), Jennie Price has decided to turn her talents to shaping the country at Sport England. She...

Career File: The minimisers

From setting up a centre to further ecodesign, to shooting a WEEE film, the activities of the waste prevention industry are endless. Resource finds out how some of the...

Rubbish rummaging

They might get a bad rap in the Daily Mail and with certain government ministers, but waste auditors perform a valuable function, finding out how much we waste, what...

All in a day’s work

We in the recycling industry know that recyclables aren’t magically transported to reprocessors, but who’s ever really thought about what it’s like to collect and sort...

A rubbish career?

The idea of working in waste seems to conjure the image of bin men and fluorescent jackets, but not all jobs in the waste and recycling industry involve collecting...