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Coca-Cola hunts for the elusive 'black box' of recycling behaviour
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has revealed more detail on its international pilot project
to explore the social science behind recycling by studying people's waste habits in the
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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.
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Brits show growing appetite for sharing economy
The sharing economy - in which goods and services are based on collaborative
consumption - is now valued at 330bn globally and 22.4bn in the UK, according
to new research. ...
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Sir David Attenborough hails Cory's landfill transformation
Sir David Attenborough has officially opened a nature park on a former landfill site in
Essex, hailing it a "new chapter" for the region's landscape.
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PG Tips targets tea bag recycling with Recyclebank
PG Tips has joined forces with Recyclebank to raise consumer awareness of tea bag
recycling through a social media campaign.
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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).
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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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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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Magazines
John Woodruff urges councils to engage with AD industry
The chair of the National Association for Waste Disposal Officers talks to Stuart Spear ahead of this year's UK AD & Biogas event ...
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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 ...
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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...
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John Woodruff urges councils to engage with AD industry
The chair of the National Association for Waste Disposal Officers talks to Stuart Spear ahead of this year's UK AD & Biogas event ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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
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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
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Weight Indicators for legal load limits on individual axles
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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
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Think small enough and food wastage could be slashed
In case you haven't seen it already, we've just published a food waste supplement as part of our Resource Revolution campaign....
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It is time to tell people why they recycle and not just how
My last blog about where our dry recycling ends up has raised some really important points that are worth picking up on. ...
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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....
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Waste Events
Webinar: Re-writing the resource rule-book
Recorded on 24/11/2011 Maximising the potential for waste as an energy resource...
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Interesting point about the obsession with having stock-loads of food on the shelf. From my time working at sainsburys, we we...
Sorry, but miscanthus is a perennial not an annual....
Companies will no longer be able to push [externalities] onto society for free when markets are corrected to make this possib...
"...circular economy was a bit further away from being at the stage where policy would be created around it"
Nonsens...
Providing information on 'why' is really the best way to let people get involved instead of just telling them to do it. ...
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