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Companies in the Thames Valley area os southern England are being encouraged to participate in a pilot PVC plastics recycling project backed by the British Plastics Federation (BPF). Letsrecycle.com reports that PVC materials from the flooring, window, piping, and guttering markets, will be collected in the Reading and West London …

The recycling credit scheme was an early initiative introduced to provide incentives for the recycling and composting of household waste by waste collection authorities and by third parties. It makes available to recyclers the savings in disposal (and, if appropriate, collection) costs that result from recycling household waste, where the …

Research for the UK Government‘‘s Heatlth & Safety Executive (HSE) ‘‘Mapping health and safety standards in the UK waste industry‘‘ indicates that there are currently around 162,500 people employed in the Waste Management industry. Many more are employed in other activities associated with specific recyclables and ancillary activities such as …