The implementation of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations in the UK has been delayed until 2024, but packaging data specialist Ecoveritas is cautioning producers to not be complacent and to start making plans now.
A US organic waste recycling centre will provide food processors with an alternative to current waste disposal methods by collecting and converting it into renewable gas.
Waste from pineapple processing could provide a range of value added ingredients for the food industry, including a new source of the enzyme bromelain, say researchers.
A half-million pound fund (€600,000) has been launched in the UK to support demonstration projects that encourage the collection of food waste from businesses and public sector buildings.
Despite progress towards achieving some waste reduction and recycling targets under the UK's Courtauld Commitment, a 2012 supply chain waste reduction target is proving a challenge for industry, with only a “marginal decrease” thus far, said WRAP...
A major plastics trade body has called for a Europe-wide ban on landfill while highlighting the key role of the private sector in driving recycling and recovery innovation.
A loan scheme to encourage the recycling of mixed plastic packaging has been launched by the UK government funded Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
A number of UK packaging targets need to be toughened up if the full recycling and recovery potential of packing waste is to be reached, said a prominent advisory group.
A ban on dumping packaging and food waste in landfill will form the heart of a consultation exercise by the UK Government in 2010 as part of plans to slash waste.
The need to maximise profit combined with a desire to help the environment have been major drivers in Kraft slashing water use in its food processing operations by more than 20 per cent in three years, the company said.
The extra £10m funding for processing UK food waste announced in the recent UK budget will allow more than 300,000 additional tonnes of food waste to be processed every year, says the recycling action group Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
By Harald Kaeb and Erwin Vink of European Bioplastics
Bioplastics and biopackaging offer multiple waste management
options, but these will only be developed in full when there is
more material on the market, according to the industry.
EU legislators yesterday voted in favour of proposals to introduce
a controversial five-stage hierarchy of priority for the bloc's
waste management policy.
A newly-invented automatic waste transportation and sorting system
has been developed in Finland that operates economically and
ecologically on virtually any kind of premises.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety
and Energy Technology in Germany are developing a compostable
packaging tape that can be disposed of cheaply and creates less
waste.
Changes to laws governing waste, energy consumption and emissions
are forcing plants to alter their methods of operation. Anthony
Fletcher spoke to the UK Environment Agency's head of waste
management to find out what plant managers...
The UK government looks set to miss one of its key recyclingtargets
after new government figures published today reveal thatonly 14.5
per cent of household waste in England was recycled in2002/3. Food
and beverage packaging makes...
An additional €25 million funding for recycling and a national
biodegradable waste strategy were among the new initiatives
announced in Ireland's first 5-year report on the country's waste
management progress. A report on...
A review by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland into dioxin
contamination in the Irish food chain concludes that levels in home
produced foods are currently extremely low and pose no risk to
consumers.
