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ANALYSIS: Are designers waking up to lifecycle thinking?

There is growing evidence that resource scarcity issues are now spilling into the creative design industry, forcing designers to ask pertinent questions around product lifecycle analysis.
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Editor's blog

The waste landscape is in danger of splintering itself

You'll have to forgive me. I've been up since 5am. Seventeen hours later of sore feet and solid networking, I am starting to slowly dissolve into the hotel carpet. But this is the first day of Sustainability Live, organised by our own Faversham House, and my head is buzzing like a firefly.

Read the full blog 'The waste landscape is in danger of splintering itself'

Defra minister unveils Agrivert anaerobic digestion plant

Defra resource minister Lord de Mauley officially opened Agrivert's second anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Oxfordshire this morning (17 May). ... read more

Energy

Business to save £1bn from simplifying environmental regs says Defra

Simplifying environmental rules and regulations could save businesses more than £1bn over 10 years, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said today. ... read more

Peter Bakker: CEOs must lead from the top to drive agenda for change

CEOs in powerful position to unlock sustainable transformation

CEOs should take advantage of their ability to create "powerful mechanisms" that can drive meaningful change across the corporate sustainability landscape, a leading CSR authority has said. ... read more

PHS builds on clinical waste portfolio with NHS win

PHS Wastemanagement has secured a five-year contract with NHS trusts in Lincolnshire to provide clinical waste services, significantly expanding its reach within the healthcare sector. ... read more

UK in danger of failing on new plastic recycling targets

The waste sector must have "sensible policy and strategic development" if the UK is serious about achieving the new and ambitious five-year recycling targets for plastic packaging from 2013 to 2017. ... read more

Brands signal firm intent to 'sex up' sustainability

Brand leaders have signed up to a new initiative which aims to mainstream sustainability by making it sexy and aspirational to consumers. ... read more

Coca-Cola teams up with council to pilot community outreach recycling

Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has joined forces with Milton Keynes Council to develop a project that will utilise the power of peer-to-peer community pledges to improve local recycling rates. ... read more

Sustainability failing in retail sector due to 'landlord mistrust'

Most shopping centre retailers are not buying into the sustainability agenda due to mistrust issues around leasing arrangements, according to new research. ... read more

EfW giant Covanta Energy puts UK arm up for sale

Global energy-from-waste (EfW) giant Covanta Energy is seeking a buyer or partner for its British arm following a strategic review of its UK operations. ... read more

Magazines

Councils must get compliance right to maximise WEEE recycling

The national recycling target for WEEE will increase in the coming years, which means it is more important than ever that councils work with the right compliance schemes, argues Simon Cook ... read more

Damage limitation: how recyclers can reduce incident risks

Delivery and collection is vital but waste and recycling companies can be open to damaging claims should an incident occur off-site. Philip Bladon offers some useful advice for the sector... read more

Kotuku provides first step on the waste ladder

The environmental labourer project equips young unemployed Londoners with basic health & safety and environmental skills and qualifications for the construction and waste management industry. Nick Warburton reports ... read more

Features

Sustainability must go mainstream: Interview with Peter Bakker

Business cannot succeed in a society that fails - that is the personal mantra of Peter Bakker, president of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. He takes time out to tell Zeljka Davis why ... read more

Circular re-entry: are you ready to go beyond recycling?

At ground level, the circular economy means a lot more than just sending your waste to be recycled. It's about tapping into those materials once they re-enter the economy. Mike Taylor explains ... read more

Councils must get compliance right to maximise WEEE recycling

Damage limitation: how recyclers can reduce incident risks

Going for gold with cradle-to-cradle: Interview with Bridgett Luther

The cradle-to-cradle concept is now hugely influential in terms of sustainable product design. Bridgett Luther, president of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, tells Daan Elffers how this agenda is shaping up ... read more

Kotuku provides first step on the waste ladder

We are just three steps away from a circular economy

It's that simple, yet the case for incremental change remains stuck in a mindset groove. So how do we design ourselves out of this one, ponders James Greyson.... read more

Products & Services

MBT

Recyclable materials from household wastes can be separated from wastes with mechanical processing and recovered for recycling, so the remaining material is the separated into a fuel fraction and an organics fraction. The fuel fraction is converted to RDF and the organic fraction is biologically st... read more

Refuse Derived Fuel; RDF and SRF

Refuse Derived Fuel or RDF is a substitute fuel which is made from the high calorific fraction of commonly available waste materials such as municipal solid waste, residual waste commercial and industrial waste, etc. There are two categories of refuse derived fuels RDF and SRF, RDF has a lower cal... read more

BioDrying

Household waste has a great potential for recovering recyclable materials and producing high calorific value Solid Recovered Fuels (SRF) whilst at the same time diverting Organic Waste from landfill dramatically reducing waste to landfill. This is achieved using a Bio Drying Plant. Biological dryi... read more