Recycle Facts

2 Mar 2010

Newest 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 place the industry into perspective, it is estimated that US Airlines alone generates around 800 Million Pounds of waste per year, of which around 75 percent is made of recyclable materials, though only around 20 percent really is recycled.

The surveys figures showed that the best recycling airlines where Delta, Virgin America, Southwest and Virgin Atlantic, while United and US Airways need to get on to serious improvements.

It has been suggested that the airlines industry may possibly recycle nearly 500 Million pounds more of waste products each year and this may possibly be improved by initiating a comprehensive recycling program based around either minimizing or composting food waste and by providing better public information about their recycling programs, among other suggestions.

5 Jan 2010

Battery Recycling Legislation Launched

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

Under the regulations, producers bringing more than lone tonne of portable batteries onto the market in a calendar year are expected to have signed up to lone of the seven batteries compliance schemes that were approved by the Environment Agency in September 2009.

17 Oct 2009

E-Waste Recycling To Be Reviewed

The EU is reviewing it’s contemporary electronic waste legislation, save for industries are already asking for a review of a contemporary proposal which sets binding waste collection targets for the manufacturers combined with a agreement to get on to 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 lone boreder to the other. On send the group pla to get on to stops in many key cities, including Garden City, during the 466 miles send to help promote state awareness of recycling and the programs and hard work that are already in house.

14 Sep 09

Maple Grove, USA launches new rank-free recycling program

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

The singular bin is linked to a recycling centre that collects at the materials in lone pick up all in the same bin, negating the need to residents to seperate glass, document and plastics.

By making the process simplier for the residents an extra 71 Tones per month of recyclable materials is composed, a fantastic success.

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 close recycling points are, with the information itself taken from the UK’s largest recycling database.

Additional information will also be provided on how to recycle basic items and theres a handbook on trickier items such as mobiles and Christmas trees.

The free app runs on many mobiles and can be downloaded at www.thespark.t-mobile.co.uk or by texting RECYCLE to 80988.

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 ancient cell phones and other devices and pay out cash for them if they’re usable, or to look excellent to responsibly recycle them if not.

There are several of these programs available now, and to try out the value of your ancient cell you will just need to stay there website.

30 Jul 09

According to a fit of recently published figures, residents in South Oxfordshire are fit 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 districts and puts them among the nation’s best.

Two uncommon types of wheelie bins are used and composed at alternate era of the week, with lone of the bins used only for food waste, a pioneering scheme in the UK.

12 Jun 2009

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

With the contemporary assess of lost golf balls fit at 2.5 Billion, a growth in the recycled industry would be provide a small save for welcome lift for the environment.

3 Jun 09

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

The new scheme is in conjunction with a company called Recyclebank (who offer a simialar points based system in the US), and also with the council’s contemporary waste contractors Veolia.