Ray Georgeson calls for the waste industry and local authorities to focus on recyclate quality

Herman van der Meij, Managing Director RCP Export (Global) for DS Smith, gives an update on the market for recovered fibre market for PRNs.

Local authorities across the UK are declaring Climate Emergencies, committing to reducing their carbon emissions to net zero. But how can their waste management contribute to that aim? Imogen Benson reports.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Geminor, Enva, Egbert Taylor, Andusia and Perpetuum.

The On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) scheme has appointed Professor Margaret Bates as its first full-time Executive Director.

Following the installation of the UK’s first automated compressor dismantling facility at the Environcom recycling plant in Grantham, Environcom CEO Cris Stephenson and REPIC CEO Mark Burrows-Smith explain more about the project.

Recycling Technologies has joined forces with energy company Total and global brands Nestlé and Mars to develop an industrial chemical recycling industry in France.

The World Biogas Association (WBA) presented a declaration at the UN’s Conference of Parties in Madrid (COP25), outlining a declaration that the biogas sector will deliver a 12 per cent reduction in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030, provided world governments adequately support the industry.

Food preservation company Apeel Sciences has announced that its avocados are now on sale in Germany and Denmark.

The fibre-based packaging industry has issued new recyclability guidelines to help designers boost the recyclability and functionality of paper packaging.