Waste Trade UK MP's call to ban plastic waste exports Nov 11, 2022 Reading time: about 3 minutes MPs demand that the UK should ban all plastic exports by 2027 to reduce the country’s contribution to global plastic waste pollution. The ban should be part of a strategy to use less ...
How much is plastic waste recycled in the United Kingdom? After a rapid growth since 2012, the UK's plastic recycling rate has plateaued in recent years.
Food waste in the U.S. Waste Management Inc. Household waste in England Plastic waste in the UK Key figures Supermarkets Food waste of the cooperative 15,151 mt Tesco: Share of food waste of prepared foods of total food waste 27% Share of recycled waste of the co-operative...
Data from the UK Office for National Statistics indicates that over 3,000 excess deaths were recorded during the heatwaves last summer. So what happened? What are some of the lessons the UK has learned that also have implications for the entire world? Bob Ward, policy and...
CE approaches should be applied due to various waste hierarchy implementations and operational steps like collection, sorting, pre-treatment, reusing, recycling, composting, biological treatment, energy recovery, incineration, and landfills, leading to different potential measurements in waste statistics. As...
Around 45% of plastic waste is recycled annually in the UK and plastic waste is on the increase. However, one of the problems with present plastic recycling methods is that you end up with a lower-quality plastic with worse properties (特性) than the original. This means that plastic drink...
C UK supermarkets are producing more plastic waste despite promises to cut down, new research suggests, as sales of bags for life increase to 1.5 billion.Retailers(零售商) were responsible for more than 900,000tons of plastic waste in 2018, according to a report from the Environmental Investiga...
More Plastic Waste Strewn across Welsh Beaches Than Whole of UK CoastlineTHE amount of plastic found strewn on Welsh beaches was almost 10% higher than the UK average, a survey by a leading environmental campaign group has shown.Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)...
Singapore-based private equity fund ABC Impact, a division of Temasek Trust Asset Management, together with sustainable chemical company Indorama Ventures, has led a US$25 million Series B funding round for Polymateria, a British company that has pioneer
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