27-03-2018 Business ‘Cities like Milan put London’s recycling rates to shame’ United Kingdom – London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged to increase the UK capital’s recycling rate from 33% to 42%…
01-03-2018 Business UK improves recycling rate but still well short of EU target United Kingdom – The UK achieved a 45.2% recycling rate in 2016 – up from 44.6% in the previous year,…
04-01-2018 Plastics Europe: PET collection and recycling rates increase in 2016 Europe – Out of 3.147 million tonnes of PET bottles and containers placed on the European market in 2016, some…
01-11-2017 Plastics US sees robust sales but lower recycling rate for PET containers United States – The US recycling rate for polyethylene containers dropped to 28.4% in 2016 from 30.1% in 2015, reckons…
17-08-2017 Plastics Axion: Marker technology ‘not the answer’ to increasing recycling rates United Kingdom – Methods to detect different polymer types – such as use of fluorescent pigments and digital watermarks –…
30-06-2017 Ferrous Metals New secretary urged to tackle England’s recycling rate drop United Kingdom – The UK’s newly-appointed environment secretary Michael Gove has been urged to take ‘urgent action’ to reverse the…
20-03-2017 Business EuRIC affirms position on measuring recycling rates Europe – There is ‘substantial room for improvement in the method chosen by the European Parliament to measure recycling rates’,…
15-03-2017 Ferrous Metals APEAL: steel ‘ideally positioned’ to reach ambitious recycling rates Europe – ‘With 76% recycled in Europe in 2014, steel is ideally positioned to reach ambitious but achievable recycling rates…
15-12-2016 Plastics Deposits boost Germany’s PET bottle recycling rate Germany – Germany recycled 93.5% of its PET bottles in 2015, concludes a new study by Forum PET. The research…
17-11-2016 Business MSW recycling rate shows minimal growth in USA United States – The overall recycling rate for municipal solid waste in the USA increased to 34.6% in 2014, up…
07-11-2016 Business Halloween is Hell for recycling rates United Kingdom – Halloween is the season of nasty surprises, and there’s none bigger than the thousands of tonnes of…
