The best features in recycling

04 Feb 2012
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Case Studies

Counting carbon
The need to reduce the carbon impact of waste (as well as its other impacts) is drastic in these days of manmade climate change. Though the European Commission continues to favour weight-based targets for waste, WRAP has worked with Defra and the Scottish Government to...

 
Reconfiguring your collection
When it comes to public services, those in charge view change with a degree of caution. People are creatures of habit, so introducing a new recycling system requires care.

 
Designs on diversion
While householders produce less than 10 per cent of the UK’s waste, the construction sector is responsible for around one third of total arisings. What’s being done to target this mountain of rubble? Will Simpson investigates

 
Preventative measures
‘Reduce’ may be the first of the 3Rs, but it’s also the most neglected and hardest to crack. Libby Peake journeys into the average consumer’s mind to find out why, and what can be done to help

 
Open for business
Authorities are rolling out domestic kitchen waste collections left, right and centre, but this might leave businesses feeling neglected. Not so in Islington, where a commercial food waste collection trial has been expended to a mainstream service

 
Staffordshire Moorlands: all things to all men?
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council topped the 2009 recycling league table and secured a favourable spot in the residual league table, Its secret is the support of its residents

 
 

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