The study will form part of Zero Waste Europe and Reloop’s response to the Waste Framework Directive consultation The endorsement of MWS – which involves removing recyclables from what would otherwise ...

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As the COP26 climate conference comes to an end in Glasgow, attention is focused on how governments can create societies that are more sustainable. One of the ways of achieving the goal is to work out ...

Thozeka Letuka, a founder of a recycling company Big Start at a buy-back centre based in Clermont, showing clear plastic bottles that have a higher commercial value. Photo: Xolani Dlamini. THINK ...

Waste360 asked three waste and recycling experts for their thoughts on what we might expect in the next few years. Here’s ...

Almost 500,000 tonnes of low-value post-consumer textiles are “readily available” for ‘fibre-to-fibre’ recycling in six European countries, according to a report published in September by Fashion for ...

Automation and technology are beginning to gain ground in the difficult race to make the recycling of collected mixed plastics possible, according to a trio of panelists at Recycling Today’s Plastics ...

VISITORS to my home from other UK regions and abroad have been surprised at our still limited scope for recycling. Why is thick cardboard excluded when it can be recycled at local paper banks? Why ...

EuRIC Textiles, a branch of the European Recycling Industries' Confederation (EuRIC), and the non-profit Municipal Waste Europe (AISBL), report that Europe's textile sorting and recycling industry is ...

Many households in Wales could soon be forced to sort recycling into separate containers after new EU rules means single bag collections could be banned. At present, around half of councils allow ...