The environmental impact of poorly managing plastic waste has been in the headlines since the BBC’s Blue Planet II series was aired at the end of 2017. In January, Theresa May pledged to eliminate the UK’s plastic waste by 2042. Less than a week later and the EU ‘declared war on plastic waste’, announcing the…
Many UK consumers have been left frustrated and angry about reports that plastics they’ve sorted for recycling might still…Read More
RECOUP support continues to grow with leading sorting technology provider Bühler UK Limited being the latest to join the…Read More
Leading UK plastics recycler Vanden Recycling has said that the Government’s 25-year Environment Plan has sensible suggestions for developing…Read More
On 11 January 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to eradicate all of the UK’s avoidable plastic waste by 2042, as part…Read More
Vanden Recycling has calculated that 350,000 tonnes of plastic that would have previously been recycled won’t be in 2018 as a…Read More
There is an increasing shift from Government, media and the public around the leakage of used packaging into the natural…Read More
European Plastics Converters (EuPC) — a European trade association —has surveyed plastics converters across Europe to look at the current and…Read More
Pressure Grows on Plastics and the Environment In 2017 the media has gradually increased the pressure on the plastics industry by…Read More
A new survey commissioned by PlasticsEurope and RECOUP with over 4,100 participants from the UK, Germany and Poland, reveals that there…Read More
