• News News in brief | the fastest refuse collection team in the UK 24th June 2019 MRWA / National Refuse Championships / Waste Wood John Lewis launches empty beauty product recycling trial 24th June 2019 John Lewis / packaging / TerraCycle Charities could receive £1 billion in donations from DRS 24th June 2019 Campaign to Protect Rural England / DRS McDonald’s UK to remove plastic lid from McFlurries 24th June 2019 McDonald’s / packaging / Plastics Almost half of UK supermarket packaging can’t be recycled 22nd June 2019 packaging / Supermarkets / Which? Swindon to introduce “compulsory” recycling collections 21st June 2019 Enforcement / Recycling / Swindon Borough Council Nigeria’s e-waste gold mine to drive circular economy 21st June 2019 E-Waste / Landfill Mining / Nigeria “No conclusive link” between waste incinerators and infant deaths 21st June 2019 energy from waste / Imperial College London Viridor and East Sussex County Council agree £20m waste contract 20th June 2019 East Sussex County Council / Viridor / waste contract Black bag sorting drives up council’s recycling rate 20th June 2019 Recycling / sorting / Wales HP to increase recycled plastics content to 30% by 2025 19th June 2019 Circular Economy / Hewlett Packard / Plastics 2020 Olympics podiums to be made from recycled plastic 19th June 2019 Ocean Litter / Olympics / plastic Amey suing Northamptonshire council pension fund for £6.5m 18th June 2019 Amey / Northampton County Council / waste contract Government rejects calls for 1p “fast fashion tax” 18th June 2019 EAC / Extended Producer Responsibility / fashion Packaging Scheme Forum warns of “looming PRN crisis” 17th June 2019 ecosurety / Packaging Scheme Forum / PRN Kellogg’s turns discarded grains into beer 17th June 2019 Circular Economy / Food Waste / Kellogg New deal will see energy made from cheese waste 17th June 2019 Anaerobic Digestion / energy from waste / Iona Capital G20 agrees global action to reduce ocean plastic 17th June 2019 G20 / ocean waste / plastic First 1 2 … 227 228 229 … 308 309 Last
