With the recent good weather, a lot of people are trying to spruce up their garden and for residents in East Devon a green waste collection is going to be introduced to help with garden waste. The new service costs £48 for the year with an introductory offer of a free 240 litre wheelie bin, which will cost £20 extra in the future.
Toronto are gearing up for their first Zero Waste Fair, organisers of the event say there has been a growing interest in waste reduction over the last few years especially with the growing problem of plastic waste. One company that is going to be there has introduced initiatives like baby car seat recycling which is the only one in Ontario.
This weeks Recycling Roundup includes stories about a city in Australia is sending all of their recycling to landfill due to costs, a pensioner has been left with overflowing due to changes in bin collections in his hometown of Dundee, finally Cambridgeshire's recycling rates have been plummeting since 2015.
Residents in Queensland face having their bins removed if they do not recycle correctly, due to China's ban on recycling, the cost of the recycling services has rised by $2million. A plan that has been put forward that would bin tagging, residents who frequently put out contaminated waste risk losing their bin.
Recycling lives has won a Queen's Award for the third time, the award is the highest award that can be given to UK businesses for international trade. This time the award was given for processing waste for businesses like John Lewis and BT and recovring metal and plastics for recycling.
Technology giant Apple, have developed a new robot called Daisy which is capable of extracting parts from 9 different types of iPhone at 200 phones per hour. This is to help them achieve their goal of manufacturing their products from 100% recycled materials.
A new app has been launched to encourage people to recycle their unwanted clothes with the incentive to buy more clothes....Around £140 million of unwanted clothing ends up in landfill in the UK with more than 60% of homes having unwanted clothes in their house.
Scientists at the University of Portsmouth have accidentally discovered an enzyme which can digest plastic, which could revolutionise recycling. The enzyme is PETase which is a nautrally occuring bacteria which was first discovered in a Japanese recycling centre back in 2016.
The 2 Sisters Food Group have announced plans to reduce the use of plastic in its operations. They have set a new plan to reduce plastic packaging by 2020 which include the phasing out of non-recyclable bottles and cups in all of their sites.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a process to separate fibreglass and resin which are the most commonly discarded parts of a mobile phone. Most companies that recover e-waste focus on the precious metals like gold and silver, but the University have found way to separate the fibreglass and resin.