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Solar Panel Landfill Deemed Safe as Recycling Options Grow

GreenTechMedia

Solar panels have a range of recycling options but none are perfect. Solar's recycling options. Those that are broken or so old as to no longer be functional can potentially be recycled, but in the U.S. at least the recycling options for solar have traditionally been limited. The company has operations in the U.S.,

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Electronics Recycling Monthly News Roundup

Living Green Technology

As the months go by, more progress is being made in electronics recycling. Keep reading for the latest and greatest in electronics recycling and e-waste news: The Guardian: Reduce, reuse, reboot: why electronic recycling must up its game. American Recycler: Sony Promotes Take Back Recycling Plan. population.

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Navigating the ban on single-use plastics

Envirotec Magazine

The bigger picture The single-use plastics ban follows the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007, which are expected to be extended, and the introduction of the Plastic Packaging Tax in April 2022. All of these have the ‘polluter pays’ concept at their core but is it enough?

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How the UK became a 'bright spot' in the battle to tackle the world's food waste mountain

Business Green

Action is being coordinated by campaign group WRAP, whose Food Waste Reduction Roadmap has helped save around 180,000 tonnes of food - worth £300m - from becoming waste since it launched in 2018. and its target to halve food waste by 2030. "If The first retailer to adopt the approach was Tesco.

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“It’s a mess” – businesses warned not to be caught out by latest EPR announcement

Envirotec Magazine

However, the deadline for submission under the existing Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 remains unchanged (7 April), adding an extra layer of complexity to the dual-reporting transitional phase of the EPR rollout. Producers can then expect to see first estimates by the end of 2023/early 2024.

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UK food and drinks sector unveils fresh waste, water, and carbon goals for 2030

Business Green

The UK food and drink industry has collectively pledged to ramp up its food waste and greenhouse gas reduction efforts, today announcing plans to halve both by the end of the decade as part of a plan designed to slash costs across the industry by billions of pounds a year. The new food waste target aligns with those set out in 12.3

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Report details progress with four trailblazing circularity projects, one year on

Envirotec Magazine

Helping menstrual cups go mainstream, redesigning children’s shoes to make them last longer, creating ‘lend and mend’ hubs in libraries and enabling polyester to be recycled again and again were the winning projects chosen by an independent Grant Fund panel of industry experts.

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