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Equity Fund Opens for Business
A
£5.5m equity fund, the first in Europe to focus specifically on
the recycling sector, has opened for business 50% oversubscribed by the
private sector.
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£1/2
Million Glass Recycling Facility gets Underway
Work
has begun on a new £1/2 million plant in Scotland to process recycled
glass into high value filtration media for the treatment of drinking water.
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Dekura
at the Forefront of PVCu Recycling
The
real challenge facing the UK PVCu window industry will be how to cope
with the increasingly stringent demands for the cyclic use of society's
waste products such as post-consumer windows, claims Dekura,
the UK PVC recycling company.
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Construction
Products from Papermill Waste
A new research programme aims to develop innovative
construction products utilising papermill waste.
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Putting
Wood Recycling on the Map
Producers of wood waste throughout the UK now have an important new resource
at their fingertips - an interactive web-based map
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BPF
Recycling Directory Available Now
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has published a Directory of UK
plastics recyclers.
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Life
Cycle Assessment and Environmental lmpact of Plastic Products
This
new Rapra Review Report describes the process of life cycle analysis and
its importance to the plastics industry.
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Biffaward
Helps Fund 'Smashing' Recycling Project
Freeform's
glass recycling unit in Hackney, East London will soon be expanding its
range of products made from 100 per cent recycled glass, thanks to a £178,571
grant from Biffaward.
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BSI
Standard to add Clarity to Glass Recycling
The
Waste and Resources Action Programme has taken the first steps towards
creating a British Standards Institute Publicly Available Specification
(BSI PAS) for raw glass cullet.
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Glass
goes Green - Whatever the Colour
No
strangers to the rubbish bins of West Oxfordshire, staff from the Centre
for Environmental Studies in the Hospitality Industry at Oxford Brookes
University are rolling up their sleeves again and picking through the
contents of rubbish bins at licensed premises across the district.
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BPF
Delegation Visits Veka Recycling Plant
Delegates
from the British Plastics Federation Windows Group recently travelled
to Behringen, Germany to visit the Veka recycling plant.
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Glass
Industry Toasts 25 Years of Bottle Bank Success
Glass recycling officials past and present have revisited the site of
one of the UK's first glass bottle banks for a 25th anniversary celebration.
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New
Channel for TVs
New research shows that removing lead from cathode ray tubes (CRT glass)
may help deal with the growing pile of waste TVs and computer monitors,
of which an estimated 100,000 tonnes are currently being sent to landfill
each year in the UK.
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Alcoa
Establishes New Goal On Recycled Aluminium Usage
Alcoa Executive Vice President G. John Pizzey urged The Aluminium Association
to adopt an ambitious approach to sustainable development that positions
the organisation and its members as leaders and innovators during a presentation
at the trade organisation's 69th Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. on
September 30th.
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Schott
Glas - Success in the Recycling of End-of-Life Picture Tube Glass
The recycling of end-of-life television and computer monitor picture tubes
was for the second time the subject of a symposium held at Schott Glas
in Mainz in mid-September. Around one hundred representatives of relevant
European enterprises, environment agencies and ministries presented papers
and discussed about tasks and solutions in the search for alternatives
to the common dumping of cathode ray tubes.
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NuLife
Glass Develops a Process to Recycle Cathode Ray Tubes
NuLife Glass has spent many years developing a process to recycle Cathode
Ray Tubes (CRT). The company claims to have achieved its goal and can
now separate the Lead (Pb) from the structure of the CRT glass.
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Putting
the Green in Evergreen
Evergreen steel door products now comply with a European Directive on
using timber from renewable and well-managed sources.
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New
Machine Helps Hurst to go 'Greener'
Hurst Plastics, the UK manufacturer of PVCu door panels, has made big
cuts in the amount of PVC that goes to waste disposal by installing a
machine to recycle all white PVC waste from their manufacturing process.
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WRAP
Announces Capital Grant Competition to Boost Glass Reprocessing Capacity
WRAP - the Waste and Resources Action Programme has announced a capital
grant competition which will boost glass reprocessing capacity in the
UK and could lead to a potential increase of between 80 and 160,000 tonnes
of post consumer glass used in high value applications.
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A
Clearer Picture of Glass Recycling
Comprehensive information on the current and potential recycling opportunities
for recovered glass is now available in a major report commissioned and
published by WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme).
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Plate
Glass Collection Expansion at Berryman
Plate glass processors who face increasing landfill and disposal charges
for their waste glass may benefit from a new nationwide service provided
by UK glass recycling company, Berryman.
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Dekura
Backs EC Recycling Demands
Co-operation between PVCu recycling companies across the UK and Europe
is vital if tough new targets on waste disposal are to be met, claimed
the UK's leading PVCu plastic recycling company Dekura at Glassex 2002.
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Waste
Not, Want Not
Portal Products, the Cheltenham-based PVCu door panel and composite door
manufacturer is cutting the amount of packaging waste through the use
of a mechanical compactor.
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AVOIDANCE
OF LANDFILL IS A MOVE BACKED BY MPs
The environmental impacts of landfill are at the forefront of today’s
green issues and MPs are backing industry initiatives that are tackling
these problems. Recycling is one of the main ways in reducing the amount
of waste dumped in landfill sites.
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INVESTING
IN INNOVATION
• WRAP seeks further innovation to stimulate a step change in UK
recycling levels
• Call for WD proposals for projects covering wood, paper, plastics
and glass
• Focus on recycled product performance, higher value applications
for secondary materials, and collection logistics
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BIFFAWARD
FUNDS 'SMASHING' RESEARCH PROJECT
The British Glass Foundation is undertaking a vital project aimed at promoting
sustainable development in the glass industry, thanks to a £150,306
grant from Biffaward, a multi-million pound environment fund managed by
RSNC, which utilises landfill tax credits donated by Biffa Waste Services.
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