The best features in recycling

24 May 2013
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Materials

Nuclear Roulette
Alex Blake reviews Gar Smith's first book, Nuclear Roulette
Not so simple
Though DRSs sound like a good idea, they’re not always as straightforward and beneficial as they first appear, according to Jane Bickerstaffe, who...
 

Plastics

Recycling ‘value/action gap’ study
University of Exeter and Coca-Cola Enterprises launch study into the UK’s ‘value/action gap’ in regards to recycling.

 
Toying with Sustainability
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…

 
 
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WEEE

Design for life
The world’s largest producer of mobile phones and televisions, Samsung, isn’t necessarily known for its commitment to sustainability. But Nick Livermore finds that the Korean manufacturer is taking strides towards improving product lifecycles

 
Industry calls for WEEE to be classed as non-waste
The electronics industry is calling for e-waste to be reclassified as ‘non-waste’ to allow ‘export for repair’.

 
 
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Organics

Grundon invests £5m in Agrivert AD plant
Grundon Waste Management has agreed to provide Agrivert with £5 million to fund a new AD plant in Surrey.

 
International Compost Awareness Week begins
Councils across the UK promote home composting as part of International Compost Awareness Week 2013.

 
 
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Metals

Novelis extends Italian operations
Aluminium recycler Novelis opens new aluminium recycling and continuous casting line in Milan, Italy.

 
Abbey Metals fined for river pollution
Abbey Metals Ltd fined £133,000 for failing to ‘prevent major accidents and limit their consequences to the environment’.

 
 
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Wood

Barton EfW site granted planning permission
The Barton Renewable Energy Plant in Davyhulme, Manchester has received planning permission from Eric Pickles.

 
UK wood industry sees ‘sharp switch’ to biomass
Woodchip produced for biomass overtakes that for panel-board for ‘first time ever’, finds Wood Recyclers' Association.

 
 
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Paper

Random sampling
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

 
Family ran ‘massive’ illegal waste operation
Eight members of an extended family admit running a ‘massive’ illegal waste operation in Cornwall.

 
 
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Glass

Just rewards
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

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

 
 
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Textiles

Transparency all round
Smurfit Kappa’s Simon Weston on why reprocessors should also be willing to embrace material sampling

 
News in Brief
Palm contract, New York Plastics Recycling, Facilities Show 2013, Furniture biofuel pressure, Carpet conference

 
 
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Other

Knowaste West Bromwich plant to close
Absorbent hygiene product recyclers Knowaste to close West Bromwich site ‘with immediate effect’ as it seeks to expand.

 
Gotta go (to the kerb)
At last there is a way of recycling absorbent hygiene products in the UK, but what happens when you take nappies out of the equation? Matilda Zatorski reports

 
 
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