Recycling 
A fire at a waste recycling plant near Bolton needed 60 fire fighters to bring it under control. The blaze is the fourth at the Armstrong Environmental Services in the past two years, according to local media reports.
1 September 2010
EuPR has condemned a PET recycling study by SRI Consulting as "dangerous." The document states that "disposing of bottles in landfill generates a lower carbon footprint than recycling or incineration." It also states that "waste shipping distances are not footprint critical."
26 August 2010
A commercial recycler and social welfare charity has installed a £150,000 trommel screening plant as part of its aim to reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfill. Recycling Lives, based across four sites in Preston, can now reduce waste previously destined for landfill by around 90%, according to the company.
25 August 2010
Discarded chewing gum is a major environmental headache – cleaning it off the UK’s streets coasts the country some £150m a year. But help is to hand, the Gumdrop Bin. And what’s more, its inventor says that old gum can be recycled into a rubber compound that can be used to make toys and footwear.
24 August 2010
Italian roofing insulation specialist Freudenberg Politex has invested $1.6m to install a new geotextile nonwovens line at its plant in Zavolzhie, in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region.
23 August 2010
Children visiting Doncaster’s Denaby and Conisbrough Children's Centre are helping build a greenhouse made entirely from old plastic bottles.
23 August 2010
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) is to showcase the UK as a global leader in sustainable manufacturing with the launch of a book at K2010 entitled Sustainable Manufacturing: A Guide For The Plastics Industry.
23 August 2010
The growth in UK's plastics recycling can play a key role in driving the green economy, according to a new report published by Wrap (Waste and Resources Action Programme).
20 August 2010
Biffa Group has appointed Ian Wakelin as its new CEO. He was previously chief executive of Greenstar, which was recently acquired by Biffa. The intention is to now merge the companies.
19 August 2010
Straight, the Leeds-based recycling container supplier, has moved into bin manufacturing with the purchase of injection moulder Dyro Holdings, which trades as Powell Plastics. The deal, worth 2.9 million pounds Sterling, includes Dyro’s Hull factory, which operates more than 20 injection moulding machines.
17 August 2010
Europe’s plastic recycling industry is too dependent on China as a market and should work to open up scrap exports to places like India, the Middle East and Africa, according to the head of one of Europe’s plastics recycling trade groups.
16 August 2010
SCA Recycling UK is offering an expanded bale collection service in response to market and customer demand, which will see LDPE being handled in addition to corrugated cardboard.
11 August 2010
Closed Loop Recycling, a UK producer of food grade rPET and rHDPE, has hired advisors from investment bank UBS to raise £30m to finance its expansion plans, which include a series of plants nationwide.
28 July 2010
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has announced that the BPF Recycling Council (BPFRC) is to be fully integrated into the Federation as from 1 January 2011. It will also take on a new identity, the BPF Recycling Group, and will be a fully fledged business group within the Federation's structure.
27 July 2010
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is planning to help create a $23m bottle-to-bottle plastic recycling facility in São Paulo, Brazil.
22 July 2010
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