Manchester City players wear PUMA shirts made using repurposed football jerseys
Ahead of their premier league match against Watford last Saturday, Manchester City players walked onto the pitch wearing special PUMA jerseys made using repurposed football shirts as part of PUMA’s recycling project RE:JERSEY. PUMA says the aim of RE:JERSEY is to “reduce waste and pave the way towards more circular production models in the future”. […]
Burger King UK to trial reusable and returnable packaging!
https://home-5009827979.webspace-host.com/wordpress/food-waste/Burger King UK to trial reusable and packaging. The scheme was announced as part of Burger King UK’s target to be 0% single use plastics by 2025. The pilot has seen Burger King UK partnering with the global re-use platform, Loop and will run from 26 April 2022 to 5 September 2022, across 5 trial […]
Every Can Counts – rainbow installation in Newcastle
Grey’s Monument has been made more colourful for Earth Day with the arrival of the Every Can Counts rainbow installation in Newcastle city centre. The impressive rainbow arch, measuring four metres high and seven metres wide, is made up from over 2,500 recycled drink cans. It was installed by Every Can Counts in collaboration with […]
Man creates environmental charity with €200m lottery win
A huge lottery payout is being used to “protect the living and watch over our own future,” a move that’s been called exceptionally generous. The €200m EuroMillions jackpot has been used to set up an environmental foundation which will protect forests and boost biodiversity. But the man behind the environmental philanthropy doesn’t want any recognition, […]
Veolia launches its first renewable fuelled fleet
Veolia has announced the launch of a brand new fleet of waste and recycling collection vehicles solely powered by renewable Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). Following Veolia signing a contract with Broadland District Council starting on 1 April, the fleet will collect waste and recycling for residents across the Broadland district. Veolia says the new contract […]
WEEE launches support grants and loans scheme
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Fund has created a support grants and loans package to help the electrical waste recycling sector deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. During the outbreak, many household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) have closed and other waste electrical collections have been reduced, meaning fewer electricals are available […]
Plans unveiled for Northampton carpet recycling plant
Innovate Recycle Ltd has unveiled plans to install a carpet recycling line in Northampton to be operational by September 2022. Innovate Recycle Ltd says it has exclusive use of a technology that will enable it to “mechanically deconstruct” carpets to extract original components, with the main one being polypropylene. The technology is a closely guarded […]
New Net Zero Strategic Advisory Group to ‘accelerate the transition of standards’
A new Net Zero Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) has been formed by the UK National Standards Body, BSI, which will set out to ensure that ‘standards accelerate the transition to net zero’, it says. The SAG intends to drive positive change across the international standards community by overseeing a shift in all standards so that […]
Concerns that businesses are unprepared for plastic tax
1 April 2022 will see the start of the Plastic Packaging Tax, aimed at tackling single use plastic waste. However, there are concerns that many businesses that will be required to pay the tax are either completely unaware of it or ‘struggling to understand how it will work’. The plastic tax has been designed to […]
WRAP report says sell fresh uncut produce to reduce food and plastic waste
WRAP calls for removal of more ‘unnecessary and problematic’ single use plastic items under The UK Plastics Pact, including wrapping on multi-packs of tinned food and sauce sachets in restaurants. New research and recommendations from WRAP suggests selling fresh produce ‘loose’ and removing date labels could prevent 14 million shopping baskets worth of food from […]
Shopping Swaps to make this Fairtrade Fortnight
We’ve created a shopping swaps list for you to make more ethical purchases this Fairtrade Fortnight is underway. The two-week annual campaign– from 21 February to 6 March – raises awareness of the Fairtrade movement and its role in supporting cooperatives and making sure small-scale producers and workers are paid a fair wage. The theme […]
UK’s Best Green Supermarkets According to Which?
Which? collected supermarket data from published reports and gathering information from the companies directly. It then analysed them all together to compare the sustainability of the UK’s eleven biggest supermarket chains and find out which were the UK’s best green supermarkets. According to Which? Lidl scored highly for its low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and targets, while […]
