4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (176+ words) A local authority in Scotland has used recycled plastic on a job to to resurface a highway. North Lanarkshire Council trialled the EcoFlakes product in a hot-rolled asphalt mix on Chapelknowe Road near Motherwell. It forms part of the UK…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (207+ words) Waste giant FCC Environment has called for a national programme to boost reuse of bicycles. The firm published a white paper on the social, economic and environmental benefits of reducing the volume of discarded bikes in the UK. It said…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago  (239+ words) Households in Scotland recycled 44 per cent of their waste last year, official data has revealed. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) described this as a "small rise" but said the figure "could be much higher". Each person in the country…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (161+ words) Packaging giant DS Smith has developed a recyclable delivery box for Danish floristry giant Queen Flowers. The corrugated cardboard device is suitable for between three and five bougets of Kalancho" blooms. DS Smith said the box was easy to assemble…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (175+ words) A community outfit in Cornwall has launched a returnable-cups initiative in a bid to reduce waste. The Circular Mindset CIC said more than 100 drinks were served at Crooklets Beach Cafe in the seaside town of Bude in containers designed to…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago  (223+ words) More than four in five big shops are turning to more environmentally-friendly packaging as a result of extended producer responsibility (EPR), research has revealed. A poll by trade body the British Retail Consortium (BRC) found that 85 per cent of those…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago  (166+ words) Two in five Brits claim they are more likely to buy crisps if they come in recycled packaging. Amcor polled over 2,000 consumers in the UK last month about the popular potato snacks. It revealed last week that 40 per cent of…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago  (74+ words) Liverpool residents could soon be able to recycle a wider range of materials from the kerbside as the Merseyside city looks to boost its rates. A councillor teased an expansion of the blue-bin household waste service as a colourful sculpture…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (215+ words) MEPs have adopted proposals on sustainable management of end-of-life vehicles as the debate over how far new laws should go rages on. Elected representatives voted by 431 to 145 in favour of draft measures in line with those adopted by the European…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (199+ words) Almost 2 million multipacks of Crunchie chocolate bars are to be held together with stickers rather than overwraps in a move to slash plastic packaging. Sweet-snack giant Mondel'z International is running the trial with UK supermarket Tesco. The pair said Cadbury…...