Coffee Cup Recycling – Has DS Smith Got the Solution for the UK?
So, what’s this about coffee cup recycling? To bring you up to date with recent events on Coffee Cup Recycling, we need to turn back the clock to 2008. In 2008, Starbucks declared that it would go over to a 100% recyclable paper cup in all its stores, and increase re-use to 25% by 2015. […]
Recycling and Sustainable Waste Management is Changing be Smart Stay-Ahead or Lose
All businesses now need to plan for recycling and sustainable waste management like never before. Pressure is mounting to improve the way all businesses work. Brexit has meant that all of the UK has to work smarter, and a large part of this starts by looking again at waste. Those who don’t keep up-to-date on […]
The 7 Secrets to Successful Skip Hire
Read on for our successful skip hire guide in the form of a list of the 7 top “secrets” for skip hire selection. Our research suggests that there are over 17 million skips hired in the UK every year for domestic use alone! That’s a lot of skips, and if you’ve ever looked in the […]
Food Waste Reduction – Preventing Waste Food from Being Sent to Landfills
In this article, we discuss Food Waste Reduction. It’s essential for preventing waste food from being sent to landfills, and how this eventual outcome makes action on food waste reduction before a ban is implemented ever more essential. Reducing food waste has been quite reasonably seen in many countries as the next big step in the battle for […]
What is District Heating and Cooling (DHC)? Combined Heat and Power Systems Explained
What is District Heating and Cooling? Outside the old eastern European block District Heating and Cooling (DHC) Systems are rare, and yet they may be much more common in future. DHC as a concept is often unfamiliar, so we decided that should write this to explain the concept. We also created a video on this […]
Problems with Plastic Waste Mount Up – UK Government Dumping Recyclate in Landfills and It’s in Our Food
Problems with plastic waste are mounting up, and that’s even before the Chinese ban on at the start of 2018, on imports of low quality recycled mixed plastic. Not only that the Sun Newspaper has reported that the UK government is condoning the dumping of plastic waste recyclate in UK landfills. Now that’s something that […]
The Rising Costs of Climate Change 2018
The costs of climate change in 2018 rose significantly. Climate change is increasingly costly, especially in the U.S. And, its man made nature is increasingly clear. On the current trajectory the world will be 4° to 5° hotter by the end of this century than it was before the industrial revolution. Although this may not […]
WRAP Launches New Municipal MRF Search Tool
The Waster is often asked for a list of UK MRFs so the announcement made in our article below should, at the very least have provided a UK municipal MRF search tool with a list of addresses and operator names. This is a glaring gap in the available information on these plants in Britain. Scroll […]
UK Waste Strategy 2017 Published
Environment secretary Michael Gove announced a much needed new UK Waste Strategy in October 2017 which is designed for a number of purposes. These include encouraging clean growth, promoting the circular economy, and reducing the UK’s carbon emissions. Many organisations have subsequently welcomed the UK Waste Strategy 2017, and we have included excerpts below from a number […]
New York City Landfills – NYC Was Once Notorious for Polluting Garbage Sites
New York City Landfills: For many years New York City was Notorious for Its Polluting Landfills. New York City, in simple terms its 5 districts, having a population of over 8 million and all in a location smaller sized than a lot of states presents a massive waste problem. You can simply think of how much […]
Ideas for Reducing Your Own Waste and Saving Money
Read on for ideas for reducing your own waste and saving money Each and every one of us can do something to assist our world, beginning right where we are, right now. Not everybody can pay to contribute money or time to a cause. Nevertheless there are limitless techniques that will reduce a person’s contribution […]
Landfill Waste Reduction Targets – EU States Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, Malta Failing
Poor EU states are not fulfilling their landfill waste reduction targets, EU Report says. Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, Malta as well as Turkey are still greater than 75% of their waste to landfill. The EU will for certain, have to take Slovakia to court for landfill , and also attain adequate waste diversion and recycling to […]
