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With a £1.15m loan from Wrap, the waste resources programme, ECO Plastics can recycle a further 15,000 tonnes of material at its Hemswell, Lincolnshire-based facility 2 February 2012

A new technical guide that aims to help local authorities increase plastic bottle recycling rates has been launched by Wrap (Waste & Resources Action Programme). 30 January 2012

Plastic packaging manufacturer Arvensis, based in Airedale Park in Keighley, has been awarded a £150,000 business loan from Finance Yorkshire to help the company develop its PET recycling operation. 20 January 2012

Regain Polymers, a plastics recycler based in Castleford, West Yorkshire, has announced growth plans backed by a £1m-plus investment in additional capacity and the acquisition of a competitor. 19 January 2012

UK plastics recycling tonnages will be a key focus for 2012 as the sector continues to extend the work done on PET and HDPE bottles recycling, according to Keith Freegard, director of resource and recovery specialists Axion Consulting. 13 January 2012

Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions, a specialist business within the global Balfour Beatty Group, has formed a closed loop recycling scheme with plastics recycler Centriforce and waste plastic collection company V10 Polymers. 12 January 2012

A 12-strong European consortium has secured €1.9m of EU funding to develop processes to add value to recycled plastics for food contact applications. 10 January 2012

The BPF Recycling Group (RG) has largely come out in support of Defra’s consultation document on packaging recovery and recycling targets but is concerned about the proposal that 57% plastics packaging should be recycled by 2017.  4 January 2012

Ireland produces 75,000 tonnes of used packaging over the Christmas period and the domestic recycling scheme wants to collect up to half of it 23 December 2011

Proposals for tougher packaging recycling targets that will stop 400,000 tonnes of packaging going to landfill by 2017 have been announced by Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman. 19 December 2011

Plastic music-making went up-market recently with orchestral conductor Charles Hazlewood’s Scrapheap Orchestra project. 15 December 2011

Growth of the world’s emerging economies, and a corresponding increase in the consumption of the raw materials needed for the manufacture of goods and services means that resource security is an issue of increasing importance for the UK, according to Wrap. 12 December 2011

BPI Recycled Products, part of British Polythene Industries (BPI), is celebrating its success after being named Best Environmental Business at the Pride in Your Place Awards. 12 December 2011

Plant can process 12,000 old window frames a week, says company 2 December 2011

Figures from European recycling body back regional ambitions to divert all plastics packaging away from landfill within nine years 2 December 2011

• Plastics recycler seeks cross-party support for industry 1 February 2012
• ECO Plastics wraps up a £1.15m investment 2 February 2012
• Dow earnings hurt by Performance Plastics unit 3 February 2012
• Petainer’s ‘greenest ever’ refillable bottle 2 February 2012
• Door opens to natural fibres in PUR 3 February 2012

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• Welsh plastics recycler in administration 3 February 2012
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