Recycle Planet

2 Mar 2010

Latest Airline Recycling Rankings

Responsibleshopper.org has recently released their figures to show which airlines are the most responsible with their recyclable waste and which ones are not.

To put the industry into perspective, it is estimated that US Airlines alone generates around 800 Million Pounds of waste per year, . . . → Read More: Latest Airline Recycling Ranking Figures

5 Jan 2010

Battery Recycling Legislation Launched

As of the 1st January 2010 new regulations will make battery producers legally responsible for funding the collection, treatment and recycling of discarded battery waste.

Under the regulations, producers bringing more than one tonne of portable batteries onto the market in a calendar year are expected . . . → Read More: Battery Recycling Legislation

17 Oct 2009

E-Waste Recycling To Be Reviewed

The EU is reviewing it’s current electronic waste legislation, but industries are already asking for a review of a current proposal which sets binding waste collection targets for the manufacturers combined with a agreement to make them pay for the collection of consumers’ scrap.

27 Sep 09

‘Recycle Bicycle’ Event Starts Today

To help promote recycling in Kansas a group of cycylists are setting off today with plans to ride from one boreder to the other. On route the group pla to make stops in many key cities, including Garden City, during the 466 miles route to . . . → Read More: Recycle Bicycle Event

14 Sep 09 Maple Grove, USA launches new sort-free recycling program

City residents of Maple Grove are in tune with a new recycling progra, that involves the use of just one main rollable recycling bin.

The singular bin is linked to a recycling centre that collects at the materials in one pick . . . → Read More: Maple Grove, USA Launches New Sort Free Recycle Program

1 Nov 2009

T-Mobile releases Reycling Mobile Application

T-Mobile say that the new mobile app “takes the confusion out of what you can recycle and where, both at home and on the go within the UK”. Users off the applications can get info on exactly where nearby recycling points are, with the information . . . → Read More: T-Mobile Releases Recycling App

12 Aug 2009

NextWorth based in Lawrence, Mass., describes itself as a new consumer electronics trade-in organisation. It has today launched a program to receive old cell phones and other devices and pay out cash for them if they’re usable, or to promise to responsibly recycle them if not.

There are several . . . → Read More: Mobile Phone Recycling Plan Launched by NextWorth

30 Jul 09

According to a set of recently published figures, residents in South Oxfordshire are set to become the UK’s top recyclers. Since a new waste scheme was introduced only 6 weeks ago, the South Oxfordshire District Council has achieved a recycling rate of 70% for residents waste, which beats other Oxfordshire . . . → Read More: South Oxfordshire Residents Recycling 70% of Waste

12 Jun 2009

Due to the current economic donwnturn the recycle golf ball industry is enjoying rapid growth, both in terms of recycled balls and re-finshed balls.

With the current estimate of lost golf balls set at 2.5 Billion, a growth in the recycled industry would be provide a small but welcome . . . → Read More: Golf Ball Recycling Industry Set to Grow into Double Figures

3 Jun 09

As of the 1st June residents will be awarded points for the amount of items they recycle. The points, collected through the weighing of wheelie bins at collection, can then be redeemed against the cost of other services, goods to buy or donated to charity.

The new scheme is . . . → Read More: New Recycling Scheme for Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead