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Launched a £1 million John Lewis Revolving Fund; Powerday and Pudsey raised funds for children; a sixth fire hit the Bolton scene; two people charged with recovery and theft
Retailer John Lewis Partners has launched the Revolving Future Fund, which will provide 1 million pounds in rewards within one year to projects that demonstrate scalable innovations to achieve a more circular economy.
It will work with the environmental charity Hubbub to support selected projects, which should be in the areas of food, textiles or household products, technology and services. More information: www.circularfuturefund.co.uk
Waste management company Powerday and house builder Hill Group have teamed up to raise £16,000 for the "Child in Need" appeal.
The staff decorated a 16-yard platform with the colors children need, and the mascot Pudsey occupies a central position in the Lampton Parkside housing development in Hounslow.
The Powerday staff team also raised more than £1,000 for charity, sponsoring a total of more than 1,000 miles of walking, running and cycling.
Firefighters were called to the Chadwick recycling plant in Bolton for the sixth time in two months. The fire was thought to have been deliberately caused by young people.
Muda Sildian, a cabinet member of the Bolton Council's stronger community, told Bolton News: "We are investigating incidents of anti-social behavior.
"I will tell parents to make sure where their children are, and keep residents vigilant and report any suspicious activity."
Two men charged with 21 counts of theft at recycling centers in Finland and East Cambridge will appear in court today (Tuesday).
Krzysztof Kusmierczyk and Kamil Mielniczck were arrested after thefts at the Witchford Recycling Center and the Wisbech Recycling Center on Bolness Road on November 21.
The City of London Corporation installed a reverse vending machine in the Broadgate area to reward those who recycle plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
It will provide discount coupons at nearby retailers. Keith Bottomley, chairman of the company's environmental services committee, said: "In order to help the environment reap the rewards, we hope to bring some fun to recycling and bars in this high-traffic area with busy transportation hubs, offices, restaurants, bars."
Enviroo, a professional PET recycler, has commissioned the Lancaster University Global Ecological Innovation Center to carry out a one-year research project that will seek to identify factors that motivate consumers to recycle on the go.
Enviroo plans to develop a customized reverse vending machine and stated that the project will study how to best encourage consumers to use it as part of a beverage container deposit return program.
Jane Reynolds, a business student at Northumbria University, won the best essay on business ethics for his work on the disconnect between sustainable consumerism and fast fashion development.
She focuses on the growth of "Gen Z" fast fashion consumption, even though they believe that people in their 10s and early 20s have a strong view of sustainable development attitudes.
Her research found that these green certificates are inconsistent with environmental protection behaviors in fashion consumption.
Following the COP26 event hosted by the Kenya Climate Change Working Group earlier this month, the World Biogas Association called for changes in waste management practices.
It stated that of the 105 billion tons of organic waste generated by human activities each year, only 2% is currently processed through anaerobic digestion into biogas, biofertilizer, and biocarbon dioxide, which are used to decarbonize carbon-intensive industries such as heating, transportation, and agriculture. .
Chief Executive Charlotte Morton said: "It is crucial that we usher in a new era of waste management. For thousands of years, we have not changed the way we handle waste. We either burn Either bury it. This must be changed."
Grundon Waste Management commemorates Road Safety Week 2021 by visiting the school, where students and teachers have the opportunity to explore safety features on one of its newest "scrap wheels".
Operations Training Manager Tex Bourton said: “By visiting schools to commemorate Road Safety Week, we also disseminated important information about staying safe at all times, whether as drivers, pedestrians or other road users.”
The Local Authorities Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) has appointed Cathy Cook as chairperson to succeed Carole Taylor in January 2022. Cook is a senior consultant for ReLondon. Her vice chairman will be James Ward of the Hull City Council.
Cook said: "It is an honour to be the next LARAC chairman at a critical moment in its development. I look forward to working with the wider industry on important policy developments that will emerge and represent members of our local authorities in the coming years. "
Suez Recycling and Recovery UK has raised more than £475,000 for the Macmillan Cancer Support charity.
Staff donated 160,540 pounds this year, bringing the total amount raised by Waste Company and Macmillan as its charity partner to 475,540 pounds in nine years.
The main event this year is Big Climb, where staff traveled from Surrey to Scotland to climb mountains to raise funds. There are also coffee mornings, sponsored skydiving and head shaves, sweepstakes, golf days and tickets for the London Marathon.
A survey of 12,000 consumers in 6 countries found that 76% of consumers want more recycling and they are more concerned about whether the packaging is recyclable, rather than reusable or made of.
The survey of packaging company Amcor was conducted in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, China and Brazil.
It also found that 83% of respondents would like brands to make clearer instructions on how to recycle packaging.
FCC Environment hosted "Lottie" from the Women's Engineering Society (WES) to its waste energy facility in Arlington, Kent.
"Lottie" is a doll designed to visit female engineers, show the scope of engineering and related occupations, and encourage young children to think about learning related subjects.
Mar Martinez Casas, head of the performance team, said: “Research shows that the proportion of female engineers in the UK is the lowest in Europe, and the waste and recycling industries are especially male-dominated-only 15.8% of the workforce is female, and these roles are mainly in service or management. "
An advertising campaign was launched in the Liverpool City area to increase recycling levels.
Know your right to recycling is led by the Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority to raise awareness of recyclable items and prevent unwanted materials from being put into recycling bins.
CEO Carl Beer said: “Many local residents do the right things most of the time, but as the recycling rate reaches 35%, we can do more. Especially because they may Cause serious problems with sorting machinery."
Meanwhile, environmental charity Thames21 is to hold a litter pick in Liverpool as part of the Plastic-Free Mersey initiative, supported by regional elected mayor Steve Rotheram.
A ship recycling transaction is expected to create approximately 100 jobs in Inverclyde.
Atlas Decommissioning has signed contracts with container shipping companies for several ships, which will be decommissioned from its fleet.
It leases the Inchgreen Dry Dock facility and adjacent land, which will become an export center for recyclable metals.
Project Director Mike Wood said: "The Inchgreen Dry Dock and its size can also directly enter very deep water. As a convenience of the contract we signed, I can say that it is unique in the UK."
Garbage criminal Peter Outlaw has been banned from handling most forms of waste and has been ordered to pay more than £5,000 for illegal storage and burning of mixed waste.
In a case brought by the Environment Agency, Outlaw from Garsdon admitted in Bath District Court that he had burned garbage and operated a garbage dump without permission for 17 months.
He was told to complete 150 hours of unpaid community work, was ordered to pay a fee of £5,398, and was prohibited from disposing of most waste for three years, unless the metal was transported to an authorized location.
According to research conducted by online electrical retailer AO, young people are the largest hoarders of WEEE, with an average of 6 unused devices in their homes.
It found that 46% of 18-24 year-olds have 6-10 dust-collecting appliances, while the average in the UK is only three.
Many people discarded mobile phones and laptops, but some even had unused refrigerators, and 30% admitted to stockpiling at least one unused washing machine.
Reasons include keeping the machine as a backup, worrying about the safety of personal data, and lack of knowledge on how to recycle.
Robert Sant, Managing Director of AO Recycling, said: "In the past year, we have seen more and more people use our recycling service. Compared with the previous year, AO Recycling has received more unneeded refrigerators. 68%.
"We believe that retailers and manufacturers have a responsibility to make it as easy and easy as possible for people to recycle these items safely."
The British Waste Management Chartered Society supports the decision of the Minister of Education Nadhim Zahawi to support elementary school teachers to provide climate change education through the new science curriculum.
President Adam Reid said: “This increased awareness and participation at a young age will play an important role in ensuring that the waste and resource sector has the necessary skills to free the world from waste and promote a greener and more circular environment for the future. economy."
The industrial action taken by Veolia garbage workers in Sheffield has been suspended by the green minibus union so that members can vote on new salary proposals.
The strike action will expire today (November 15), and an indefinite strike is planned to begin on November 22.
The union stated that Veolia now offers a 3% increase this year, with a one-time payment of £250 per employee, and an increase of 3.5% in the second year of the transaction.
Tyne & Wear Fire & Rescue Service has put out a fire in a recycle bin in Wallsend. The cause is considered not malicious.
Five fire trucks were dispatched to an industrial site, and nearby residents were urged to close doors and windows due to heavy smoke.
Recycling Lives supports the creation of a garden art installation to commemorate the anniversary. The installation was created in prison by a group of former service staff. The company supports individual re-employment.
They designed poppies with red gravel, created a vegetable field to provide food for the local food bank, and made 100 poppies with matchsticks, which will be buried in Durham, Darlington and Middle On the war grave in Fortsburg.
CEO Gerry Marshall said: “Recycling Lives is currently working with the wider UK prison and probation service and other detention centers to use temporary permits and resettlement to support more men and women across the country and increase employment opportunities.”
Velocys Renewables has reached an agreement with the International Consolidated Airlines Group to acquire sustainable aviation fuel to be produced at the Bayou Fuels project in Mississippi.
The airline group includes British Airways, Aer Lingus and Iberia, and is expected to purchase 192 million gallons of fuel under a 10-year contract starting in 2026.
The compostable coffee pod brand Halo launched the Recyclopedia database to try to clarify the recycling situation in the UK.
It stated that 80% of British households still put items that cannot be recycled locally in recycling bins, and 44% of households are dissatisfied with the recycling information.
Recyclopedia contains the top 20 most confusing items based on Google search data and provides guidance on how to recycle or dispose of materials.
Specialty Chemicals Evonik cooperated with the Vita Group to develop a polyurethane (PU) mattress recycling process.
The company stated that it has used its expertise in polyurethane chemistry to develop a chemical recycling process that converts flexible PU foam into raw polyol raw materials.
It will now expand the test scale of this new process together with the Vita Group, which provides PU foam products.
According to Evonik, about 40 million mattresses are discarded every year in Europe, most of which end up in landfills, producing the equivalent of more than 300 kilotons of PU foam.
Binn Ecopark in Glenfarg collaborated with the design committee to host a sustainability seminar inspired by COP26.
Sophie Thomas, a design committee partner, hosted a seminar focusing on how to reuse scrap in design projects.
Binn Group operates Binn Ecopark as a low-carbon resource recycling complex. The company stated that the company processes more than 500,000 tons of materials each year with a recycling rate of over 90%. There is an anaerobic digestion plant, a green waste composting system and four wind turbines.
The North London Waste Authority (NLWA) collects polystyrene at its eight reuse and recycling centers, and then processes it at two locations equipped with new compactors.
This is the result of a partnership between NLWA, its subsidiary London Energy, the British Plastics Federation and Greenbank Recycling Solutions. Greenbank Recycling Solutions provides compactors and manages the process.
Chairman Clyde Loakes said: "Expanded polystyrene is a difficult material to dispose of because it is very light, but it is also relatively large. So far, our only solution is to dispose of it through waste energy (incineration) , But this new recycling infrastructure will enable us to manage it effectively and have less impact on the environment."
The Sustainable Business Council (CSB) has seen 95 companies sign up to its "Get Natural Positive" campaign.
The signatories include Co-op, M&S, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose, all of which have pledged to reduce their impact on climate, deforestation and nature by 2030.
Environment Minister George Eustice said: “Changing our relationship with nature will require global cooperation throughout the commodity supply chain.
"Today's corporate commitment has given me further encouragement. Together, we can overcome this challenge and reverse the trend of natural decline by 2030."
The Dacolon Municipal Council has cooperated with regional law enforcement agencies to combat environmental crimes.
The City Council has granted district law enforcement officials the power to issue a fixed penalty notice of £80 if they witness someone littering, failing to clean up a dog, or violating the district’s public protection order.
Dyl Kurpil, managing director of the regional law enforcement department, said: "Our service has been set to remain cost-neutral to Dacorum-officials have no incentive to achieve financial goals or targets. Our only goal is to reduce littering and dog pollution. .Street."
During the COP26 meeting, the Zurich Insurance Company used carbon-negative aggregates from OCO in the statue installed in Glasgow Commercial Plaza.
OCO said that this artificial aggregate is made by using waste carbon dioxide gas to treat air pollution control residues from waste-to-energy plants.
This statue represents human beings standing in a circle, one of which is empty, so that visitors can form the last link that symbolically unites the world on the issue of climate change.
The building uses 300 kilograms of OCO’s limestone and other environmentally friendly materials, including recycled plastics,
Traidcraft Shop’s research on tea bags found that these tea bags can shed billions of microplastic particles.
It says that polypropylene is added to seal tea bags and maintain their shape in boiling water. It said that although the usage is small, this can be increased significantly given the popularity of the drink.
Traidcraft said that in some cases, many manufacturers are using bioplastics to develop plastic-free tea bags.
Retailer Wilko said that by stopping the use of this material in wet wipes, it has reduced 2,500 tons of plastic.
It stated that in March 2020, it was the first retailer to convert 100% of its branded wet wipes to plastic-free.
CEO Jerome Saint-Marc said Wilko's customers don't have to pay more to make this ethical choice.
The retailer intends to eliminate all problematic plastics and reduce unnecessary plastics in packaging by 2025.
Recofloor has collected 517 tons of commercial waste vinyl flooring for recycling, achieving the 500 tons target for 2021 two months ahead of schedule.
It was founded in 2009 by floor manufacturers Altro and Polyflor to provide environmentally friendly and cost-effective waste disposal methods.
It said that the large amount of funds collected was due to the rapid recovery of the construction industry from pandemic measures as the renovation project progressed.
The Suffolk County Council and its partner FCC Environment, which manages all 11 recycling centers in Suffolk, will relocate the Chalkstone Way recycling center to a new location within the FCC waste transfer station on Homefield Road.
The new recycling center has been approved by county council planners and an environmental permit was also issued, which will eventually replace the existing center on Chalkstone Way.
The construction of the new site is currently under bidding, and the project is expected to start this winter and is expected to open in 2022.
The developer of the new settlement in Linmere has appointed Cawleys to manage the waste generated in Farmstead, its community center.
Cawleys said that most waste is either recycled or converted into energy, but less common uses include converting coffee grounds into logs for wood burning stoves.
Linmere's household waste will be treated separately through the local council recycling service.
Developer Houghton Regis Management Company will build approximately 5,150 houses in Linmere over the next 15 years.
Iceland Foods said it will offset its remaining footprint by recycling and recycling waste plastics, thus becoming the first plastic-neutral supermarket in the UK.
The plastic that enters the environment will be recovered and recycled by Seven Clean Seas, which Iceland calls "an independent partner that has obtained completely transparent standards and reporting certification."
Managing Director Richard Walker called for the establishment of standardized systems and certifications for natural plastic recycling and offsetting to ensure the integrity of the method and allow more companies to participate.
A pilot study at Nottingham Trent University showed that WEEE recovery rates can be increased through incentives, such as retail discounts or tree planting credits.
During the 12-month pilot period conducted by Getxo in Spain, consumers discarded WEEE in the “smart trash can” and scanned QR ID to obtain ecological points, which can be used for discounts or donations at local electronics retailers Plant trees in the local nursery.
The North London Waste Management Bureau launched a billboard and social media campaign to promote a picture of a typical London street flooded by a mountain of garbage. The amount of garbage reached 223 tons, which is the amount of garbage generated by Londoners in just one hour. It said that within a year, this will add 2 million tons of waste.
Chairman Clyde Loakes said: "Now is the time for more serious consumption and urgent systemic changes to create a sustainable supply chain.
"The British government must strengthen and provide incentives and systems for businesses to help them move towards an earth-friendly recycling model, where waste is designed, materials are reused, and unethical practices such as the built-in obsolete appliances for electrical and white goods Expelled."
The Environment Agency has asked people planning bonfires this weekend to be careful of burning items and to ensure their safety before burning.
It said burning most types of waste is illegal and can be fined up to £50,000.
EA official Sam Pickard said: "Bonfires should not be used to remove trash seasonally.
"We want to encourage people to ensure that they dispose of waste legally and safely in recycling centers or through door-to-door collection."
Alfred H Knight will develop a professional sample preparation facility for sampling and analysis services in the waste and solid fuel industries.
The Dundonald facility will provide sample preparation facilities for biomass, coal and waste, and is expected to process more than 15,500 samples per year.
A study commissioned by packaging companies DS Smith and Aquapak found that biodigestible barrier coatings can increase paper recovery and fiber yield without compromising functionality.
DS Smith stated that barrier technologies such as Hydropol provide an alternative to improve the separation of paper fibers and the removal of plastic waste from the recycling process, greatly reducing the negative impact of paper packaging on the environment.
ReNew ELP has selected Emerson as its digital automation partner for its new plastic recycling plant in Teesside.
The company said that Emerson's advanced automation technology and software will help realize the safe and efficient operation of the hydrothermal process and convert scrap plastics into raw materials for the production of new plastic products.
Managing Director Richard Daly said: "By converting scrap plastics into fossil substitute raw materials, ReNew ELP has the potential to eliminate unnecessary single-use plastics and create raw materials for the circular plastic economy, creating value instead of waste."
Glasgow Airport installed two reverse vending machines before the city started COP26 as part of a pilot project with airport waste management contractor Biffa to encourage passengers and staff to recycle cans and bottles.
In the next four weeks, the two machines will be located next to the electronic door entrance in the security hall and in the main area of the waiting room.
Each accepts 320 plastic bottles and 650 cans. Glasgow Airport will donate 5 pence per bottle, or the machine can be deposited in the machine for environmental charity or projects.
Kirsty Webster, Airport Sustainability Manager, said: “The introduction of reverse vending machines further complements the work already done to reduce unnecessary waste, will help ensure cleaner and better recycling, and encourage passengers and employees. Do more recycling."
Fortescue Future Industries has reached an agreement with waste and construction equipment manufacturers JCB and Ryze Hydrogen to become the UK’s largest supplier of renewable hydrogen
Starting early next year, JCB and Ryze will purchase 10% of FFI’s global green hydrogen production, which is expected to reach 15 million tons per year by 2030.
FFI Chairman Andrew Forrest said: "Our agreement marks the first major shift in the global business landscape, moving from fossil fuels to real, practical, and implementable green hydrogen solutions."
In a mobile recycling program initiated by the environmental charity Hubbub and Telford and Wrekin Council, colored trash bins appeared in Telford Town Park.
The six-month trial aims to allow people who walk through the park to easily recycle empty glass, plastic bottles and cans.
In order to minimize pollution, people are urged to put items such as coffee cups, dog feces, and crisp bags in the general garbage area of the trash can and consider "if in doubt, throw them away."
Business consultant BDO partnered with Isys Interactive Systems to sell it to Access Group.
Isys is a software and service provider for waste management and food and beverage delivery, and Access Group is a business management software provider for mid-market organizations in the UK, Ireland and Asia Pacific.
BDO partner Roger Buckley said: "In terms of operations, Isys has supplemented the Access software portfolio in the construction and hospitality industries, and expanded the scope of services to their existing customer base."
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