Jack Cartwright, Innovent Recycling, explores the substantial material value hidden in the UK’s discarded electronics and the carbon savings that proper recovery can deliver. The UK has a complicated relationship with electronic waste. According to the Global E-Waste Monitor 2024, analysis of its country data shows we generate around 24kg of e-waste per person…
Read more Jack Cartwright, Innovent Recycling, explores the substantial material value hidden in the UK’s discarded electronics and the carbon savings that proper recovery can deliver. The UK has a complicated relationship with electronic waste. According to the Global E-Waste Monitor 2024, analysis of its country data shows we generate around 24kg of e-waste per person…
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John Twitchen FCIWM, founder of Stuff4Life and Chair of CIWM’s Producer Responsibility Sector Expert Group, uncovers how EPR is having the unintended consequence of driving investment into commercial reuse and refill iniatives. In October, the British Retail Consortium published research that showed over 80% of retailers plan to pass on the cost of the…
Read more John Twitchen FCIWM, founder of Stuff4Life and Chair of CIWM’s Producer Responsibility Sector Expert Group, uncovers how EPR is having the unintended consequence of driving investment into commercial reuse and refill iniatives. In October, the British Retail Consortium published research that showed over 80% of retailers plan to pass on the cost of the…
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Two men have been given suspended prison sentences for operating a large-scale illegal waste site in Lincolnshire. An Environment Agency investigation discovered waste on Hook Cliff Farm, Lincolnshire, including hazardous motor vehicle waste, and mixed household and commercial waste. The site is also estimated to have imported around 27,000 tonnes of construction and demolition…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has found that poorly managed solid waste is driving a ‘public health crisis’. A new WHO report, Throwing away our health: the impacts of solid waste on human health – evidence, knowledge gaps and health sector responses, warns that poorly managed solid waste is driving a public health crisis and…
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Sebastian Munden, Chair of the global board of trustees for the climate action NGO WRAP, has been awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year Honours. Munden, who is also Chair of the advertising industry’s climate action programme Ad Net Zero, was honoured for services to Business and the Circular Economy. Sebastian Munden said: “This is…
Read more Sebastian Munden, Chair of the global board of trustees for the climate action NGO WRAP, has been awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year Honours. Munden, who is also Chair of the advertising industry’s climate action programme Ad Net Zero, was honoured for services to Business and the Circular Economy. Sebastian Munden said: “This is…
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