MRW Newcastle urged to rethink EfW contract Councillors fear city tied to incineration rather than recycling Newcastle urged to rethink EfW contract Mark Smulian Read More
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MRW Defra admits errors in waste reform management Parliamentary committee was told department had addressed problems with initial approach to much-delayed waste sector reforms Defra admits errors in waste reform management Daniel Bosley Read More
The system is described as being safe to operate, environmentally sound, and cost-effective. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) conducted live demonstrations of its industrial Supercritical Water Oxidation (iSCWO) system for destroying PFAS chemicals before a delegation of government, remediation, and waste management company representatives on 29 August. It appeared to demonstrate the successful destruction of […]
MRW Tribunal says Birmingham refuse manager was racially discriminated Birmingham City Council severely criticised for treatment of manager who was moved on from job ‘in order to appease union’ Tribunal says Birmingham refuse manager was racially discriminated Mark Smulian Read More
Abigail McGregor suggested “progress may stall if additional recycling capacity isn’t built.” Share of UK businesses using recycled plastic in packaging rising from 31% to 44% A new UK tax on plastic packaging already seems to be working with the amount of packaging in the UK* containing recycled plastic rising from 31% of all packaging […]
As the first generation of the UK’s wind turbines come to the end of their serviceable life, a project called “Re-Rewind” aims to help develop a sustainable, circular economy to recover and secure the essential resources needed for the next. Re-Rewind is a partnership between sustainable materials specialist EMR, an expert in recycling rare earth […]
The UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, has announced a £6.6m investment in research projects which aim to help build a stronger supply chain of the critical minerals used widely in electronics and industry. The Critical Materials for Magnets Competition is part of the CLIMATES programme, announced in February, which committed £15m of government funding for cutting-edge research to […]
Image credit: Zeynep Demir Aslim / Shutterstock.com. The number of disposable single-use vapes thrown away has soared from 1.3 million to nearly 5 million per week, according to new research from not-for-profit group Material Focus. This is equivalent to 8 per second being thrown away – almost four times the number since the research was […]
Environmental data specialist Ecoveritas has warned businesses not to be caught off-guard following the Environment Agency’s announcement on 5 September that it is delaying the enforcement of its Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) data submission deadline. Under the new edict, companies that miss the first two EPR submission deadlines of 1 October 2023 and 1 April […]
The Sellafield site in Cumbria, by night. Since 2022, the site has been primarily focused on nuclear waste processing and storage, and nuclear decommissioning (image credit: Dom Crayford, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license). A new research collaboration brings together researchers and industrialists from the UK and Japan to explore novel ways to detect and dispose of […]