Recycling paper export report: January 2024
These are the latest HMRC export figures for January 2024 for key paper and cardboard grades. Only destinations of more than 1,000...
Packaging firm uses 800t of recycled plastic through Blockchain initiative
Packaging producer Klöckner Pentaplast has revealed that it used more than 800 tonnes of recycled PET last year through a high-tech partnership with a Blockchain-platform provider.
Flexible-plastic collection scheme to expand
A kerbside flexible-plastics collection scheme in the Home Counties is to be expanded
Recycling Market Commentary and Prices: 25 May 2018
This week saw some upwards movement in the price of certain recyclable plastics grades, and a slight cooling of OCC.
PET, HDPE and LDPE all...
£10,000 marketing support packages available to waste innovators
A key sector body is to hand out £60,000 of marketing and communications support to groundbreaking firms in the UK and Ireland.
Veolia kicks off gas-canister recycling scheme
Veolia has started recycling used nitrous oxide canisters.
Recycling prices and market commentary: 1 September 2023
Certain grades of recovered plastic, paper and metal rose in value this week as the markets began to galvanise following the long summer slowdown.
Tyrrells to come in part-recycled bags
Food giant KP Snacks has introduced recycled soft plastics into packaging for Tyrrells crisps.
PepsiCo aiming to use 100% rPET in UK by 2022 in Pepsi beverage bottles
Soft drinks manufacturer PepsiCo has announced that it intends to use 100% rPET in UK by 2022 in its Pepsi beverage bottles.
S Norton expands into Scotland with acquisition
Metal recycler and exporter S Norton has acquired the staff and two sites of a Glasgow rival.