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Waste and Recycling

Energy Features Waste and Recycling 

75% of Brits plan to make environmentally-friendly changes

31st July 202031st July 2020 Pippa Neill

Three-quarters of Brits plan to make changes in their behaviour to help the environment, according to research conducted by personal

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environment Features Waste Waste and Recycling 

Eliminating the impact of intentionally added microplastics

24th July 202024th July 2020 Sean Smith

Sean Smith (pictured) is the CEO of Eden Research plc, an AIM-quoted company focused on sustainable biopesticides and plastic-free encapsulation

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Features Waste and Recycling 

Global electronic waste up 21% in five years, and recycling isn’t keeping up

20th July 202014th July 2020 Vanessa Forti

Each year, the total amount of electric and electronic equipment the world uses grows by 2.5 million tonnes. Phones, radios,

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Features Waste and Recycling 

Why we’ll still need waste in a circular economy

19th June 202019th June 2020 Julia Stegemann and Stijn van Ewijk

Julia Stegemann, professor of environmental engineering at UCL and Stijn van Ewijk, postdoctoral associate at Yale University discuss why we

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Features Pollution Waste and Recycling 

How businesses can help to solve the e-waste crisis

16th June 202016th June 2020 Fredrik Forslund

Fredrik Forslund from VP Enterprise & Cloud Erasure Solutions writes for Environment Journal about what businesses can do to ensure

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Features news Waste and Recycling 

Education is essential to tackle plastic pollution

4th June 20204th June 2020 Pippa Neill

Education and appealing to people’s priorities is essential to creating sustained change around recycling habits, says new report. Environmental behaviour

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Features Waste Waste and Recycling 

What happens to waste PPE during the coronavirus pandemic?

19th May 202019th May 2020 Environment Journal

Personal protection equipment (PPE) is vital for the frontline health workers during the coronavirus pandemic – but what happens to

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Features Waste and Recycling 

England plastic recycling needs ‘significant change’

12th May 2020 Thomas Barrett

England needs to implement ‘significant change’ to the way that plastic packaging is recycled if it is to meet its

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Energy Waste Waste and Recycling 

Four things you didn’t know about nuclear waste

5th May 20205th May 2020 Environment Journal

There are several misconceptions around nuclear waste – Laura Leay, nuclear engineering innovation fellow at the University of Manchester, tackles

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Features Waste and Recycling 

Scientists record highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on seafloor

1st May 2020 Thomas Barrett

Scientists have discovered the highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor, with up to 1.9 million pieces in

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Features news Waste and Recycling 

New reusable battery to tackle the problem with EV waste

26th March 2020 Pippa Neill

Battery solutions company Aceleron has developed a new recyclable and reusable electric vehicle (EV) battery which is half the weight

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Features news Waste Waste and Recycling 

New inquiry to tackle electronic waste in the UK

13th March 202016th March 2020 Pippa Neill

The Environmental Audit Committee has re-launched an inquiry into the disposal and recycling of electronic waste.  E-waste is the fastest

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Features news Waste and Recycling 

Birmingham named the least environmentally-friendly city

12th March 202013th March 2020 Pippa Neill

Bristol has been named the most environmentally-friendly city in the UK, and Birmingham has been named the worst, according to

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Features news Waste and Recycling 

Leafield’s Cup Bins support Bristol’s ‘For Cups Sake’ Campaign

3rd March 20205th March 2020 Pippa Neill

Leafield Environmental, a Wiltshire based company are proud to have designed and manufactured 100 new cup bins for Bristol’s ‘For

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Features news Waste and Recycling 

Environmental group to sue the world’s largest plastic polluters

2nd March 2020 Pippa Neill

The non-profit environmental group The Earth Island Institute has filed a lawsuit against ten major companies for their contribution to

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Climate Change Features Waste and Recycling 

Academics, farmers and consumers to tackle threats to food security

10th February 20209th March 2020 Pippa Neill

The University of Sheffield has received £1.2m of funding to bring together academics, farmers, consumers and policymakers to help address

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environment Features news Waste and Recycling 

£11m project to remove plastic from the English Channel

7th February 2020 Pippa Neill

Organisations across the South West are coming together as part of an international project to remove and prevent plastic pollution

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Features Waste and Recycling 

Asda tackles Easter egg plastic waste

3rd February 20203rd February 2020 Thomas Barrett

With Easter approaching, Asda has decided to do something about the mountains of plastic waste created by its own-brand chocolate

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Features Housing Waste and Recycling 

Behavioural interventions can improve recycling rates in flats

31st January 202031st January 2020 Pippa Neill

A new report published by Resource London has highlighted various ways to improve recycling rates for people living in purpose-built

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Features news Waste Waste and Recycling 

£8m competition prize to help ‘revolutionise’ plastic use

16th January 202023rd January 2020 Pippa Neill

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has launched two new competitions to help develop plastics that are greener, safer and more

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