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UK company to recycle toxic French warship »

By admin on Jul 2, 2008 in Recycling, Featured, Environment, News | 0 Comments

Hartlepool-based company Able UK has been awarded a controversial contract to dismantle and recycle a French aircraft carrier which was deamed too toxic to break up in India. 
The agreement to send the Clemenceau, once the flagship of the French navy, to Able UK, ends an embarrassing five-year saga that had the toxic vessel being passed around the […]

Why recycling aluminium cans is so important »

By admin on Jun 29, 2008 in Recycling, Home & Garden, Guides | 0 Comments

The UK uses over 900,000 tonnes of aluminium, with around 73% of this having been recycled.  Due to the high unit value, large items such as those used for transport and building applications, achieve as much as a 95% rate of return for recycling.
However, the aluminium used for packaging is much more difficult to collect, as it is very […]

UK’s first nuclear recycling plant »

By admin on Jun 27, 2008 in Hazardous Waste, Recycling, Featured, News, Energy | 0 Comments

The UK’s first nuclear recycling plant to be based outside an existing atomic facility is being built in Cumbria.  The recycling plant is being built by Swedish-based company Studsvik at Lillyhall Industrial Estate near Workington.  The site is due to be completed by December and will handle approximatley 3,000 tonnes of scrap metal a year from […]

M&S trial food packaging made from recycled plastics »

By admin on Jun 27, 2008 in Recycling, News, Home & Garden | 0 Comments

Marks and Spencer’s has this month become the first retailer in the UK to trial the use of recycled plastic in food and drink packaging on a large scale and to gauge customer reaction to the concept.
The project is being run in conjunction with an Australian owned recycling company called Closed Loop Recycling.  London Remade are […]

£917m Recycling Scheme announced for Lincolnshire »

By admin on Jun 25, 2008 in Household Waste, Recycling, Featured, News | 0 Comments

Lincolnshire County Council members will today be asked to back a £917m recycling scheme aimed at helping the county to meet new recycling targets over the next 28 years.
The plan includes building an ‘Energy from Waste’ unit - a combined heat and power plant to generate electricity for sale to the national grid and heat […]

Get a bike by recycling »

By admin on Jun 22, 2008 in Recycling, Home & Garden | 0 Comments

Each One Counts, the online recycling campaign for empty printer cartridges and unused mobiles, has launched re:Cycling, a new incentive scheme for active recyclers. The scheme is being run in partnership with Halfords, the UK’s largest cycle retailer.
re:Cycling offers recyclers a weekly prize draw worth £100. Winners get a Halfords Voucher that can be exchanged […]

European Union agrees new recycling targets »

By admin on Jun 17, 2008 in Recycling, Environment, News, Home & Garden | 0 Comments

European Union lawmakers approved new targets today for the recycling and re-using of waste, and measures to reduce the amount of waste that is incinerated or dumped in landfill sites.
The European Parliament voted for the target of re-using or recycling 50% of the main types of EU household waste by 2020, and 70% of all building and demolition waste.
Europe […]

Council scraps “unworkable” microchip bin project »

By admin on Jun 16, 2008 in Recycling, Featured, Environment, News, Home & Garden | 0 Comments

A council which was one of the first in the UK to introduce microchipped wheelie bins ahead of a possible “pay as you throw” scheme has abandoned the project after saying it was unworkable.  The idea behind the government-funded project was to encourage households to increase recycling and cut the amount of waste going to landfil […]

Recycling takes centre stage at summer festival »

By admin on Jun 15, 2008 in Recycling | 0 Comments

A theatre company in Devon is hoping to stage a theatre production using a set, props and costumes made from only recycled items. The Plymouth Summer Festival show, One Small Step… One Giant Leap, is taking place at the Royal William Yard from 24 July to 1 August.
So Strange Youngens and Plymouth Youth Dance Company […]

New facilities to boost cardboard recycling »

By admin on May 28, 2008 in Household Waste, Recycling, Home & Garden | 2 Comments

With councils throughout the country offering different recycling services, many people have been left confused as to what types of food and drink packaging can and cannot be recycled.  Many cartons for milk, drinks, soups and other liquids contain plastic and aluminium linings which make them more difficult to recycle.  Most councils therefore do not collect these items […]

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