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Latest Airline Recycling Ranking Figures

Admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:40:35 +0000

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, of which around 75 percent is made of recyclable materials, though only around 20 percent actually 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 make serious improvements.

It has been suggested that the airlines industry could recycle almost 500 Million pounds more of waste products each year and this could 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, amongst other suggestions.

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Battery Recycling Legislation

Admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:38:36 +0000

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 to have signed up to one of the seven batteries compliance schemes that were approved by the Environment Agency in September 2009.

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E-Waste Recycling To Be Reviewed

Admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:37:49 +0000

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.

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Recycle Bicycle Event

Admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:36:59 +0000

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 help promote state awareness of recycling and the programs and efforts that are already in place.

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Maple Grove, USA Launches New Sort Free Recycle Program

Admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:36:03 +0000

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 up all in the same bin, negating the need to residents to seperate glass, paper and plastics.

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

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T-Mobile Releases Recycling App

Admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:34:38 +0000

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 itself taken from the UK’s largest recycling database.

Additional information will also be provided on how to recycle basic items and theres a guide 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.

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Mobile Phone Recycling Plan Launched by NextWorth

Admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:33:13 +0000

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 of these programs available now, and to check the value of your old cell you will just need to visit there website.

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South Oxfordshire Residents Recycling 70% of Waste

Admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:32:02 +0000

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 districts and puts them among the nation’s best.

Two different types of wheelie bins are used and collected at alternate times of the week, with one of the bins used solely for food waste, a pioneering scheme in the UK.

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Golf Ball Recycling Industry Set to Grow into Double Figures

Admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:31:00 +0000

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 lift for the environment.

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New Recycling Scheme for Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead

Admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:29:52 +0000

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

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