UK – Government backs farms waste initiative

Farming bodies, suppliers, the waste management and recycling industries, the Environment Agency and Government joined forces last week to consider how to achieve the sustainable management of plastic waste from farms. In a conference organised by the Agricultural Waste Stakeholders‘‘ Forum at Regents College Conference Centre in London (14 October) …

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Europe – response indicators & waste prevention

The European Environment Agency‘‘s Topic Centre on Waste and Material Flows has provided a useful note on waste prevention which may interest you. The concept of response indicators may help us deal with the challenge of developing sound, valid and generally accepted indicators for waste prevention. Indicator has become a …

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Recycling of Plastics

Why don’t we recycle more waste plastics? It’s an economically, as well as environmentally, important question. In the UK only 7% of the 2.3 million tonnes of waste plastics generated each year are recycled into new products

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Recycling of Plastics

Why don’t we recycle more waste plastics? It’s an economically, as well as environmentally, important question. In the UK only 7% of the 2.3 million tonnes of waste plastics generated each year are recycled into new products

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