Waste Management

UN Development Programme (UNDP) and The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF) partner to scale up management of plastic waste in Asia

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF) have partnered to help address the growing challenge of plastic waste management in Asia, a region that is home to significant environmental opportunities and challenges. Rapid urbanization, increasing demand for single-use plastics, and gaps in waste management infrastructure have contributed to a rising volume of plastic waste, making effective solutions more urgent than ever.

Sonoco Europe to host post-election webinar on the future of resources & waste policy in the UK

Scheduled for 29th July, the webinar will draw on recent polling data commissioned by Sonoco, and look at what the recent change of Government is likely to mean for waste, recycling and packaging policy.

A hot development from the cold north

The HoegTemp heat pump from Enerin in Norway, this year's partner country at HANNOVER MESSE, generates industrial process heat at ultra-high temperatures in an environmentally friendly way. "The most exciting thing about the HoegTemp heat pump is its potential to save 300 billion kilowatt hours of industrial heat in Europe alone," says Arne Høeg, project manager and partner at Enerin.

Bouygues Travaux Publics Adopts IoT-Enabled Traceability Solution, UBY Soil, Powered by Abeeway Trackers

Bouygues Travaux Publics, offshoot of one of the biggest global construction groups Bouygues Construction, specialized in civil engineering and related structures, deployed UBY Soil, an IoT-powered solution monitoring in real time the evacuation of spoil from construction sites.

Siegwerk celebrates milestone in Project Stop waste management initiative

Siegwerk supported the project as strategic partner from 2020 to 2023. Together with other partners great achievement were made during this time in Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia: more than 130.000 people have received access to waste management, more than 120 permanent jobs were created and more than 5000 metric tonnes of waste were collected. The project has been further expanded with a new material recovery facility in Banyuwangi.

A Central System has helped CCL Label Völkermarkt to reach their environmental and sustainable goals concerning waste handling

CCL Industries is one of the leading label manufacturers in the world with +200 production facilities in 43 countries, with headquarters in Toronto, Canada and Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.

Afera WS2 – Waste Management

Having curated a database of waste collectors and recyclers, the workstream participants are currently conducting interviews with shortlisted collectors and recyclers. The aim is to gather information regarding current practices (type and volume of waste collected, pre-requisites for acceptance of waste material, geographical regions covered, etc.) and assess compatibility with waste generated by tape manufacturers and converters.

Read more: Afera WS2 – Waste Management

Christmas: The most wasteful time of the year

The UK produces and discards an extra 30% of rubbish throughout the festive period. That’s 100 million bags of rubbish to landfill each Christmas

UK devolution and EU harmonisation

By Kathy Illingworth, Head of Sustainability Consulting

In the UK, waste is a devolved issue. The devolved administrations are responsible for setting their own waste regulations. Whilst in the past, packaging regulations have remained consistent across the nations of the UK, this is set to change with the introduction of deposit return schemes (DRSs) and the reform of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging. It seems like having different packaging regulations across the four nations is likely to bring many issues for producers and retailers in terms of labelling, supply chain management and data reporting.

The managing director of Pro Carton makes a statement on the European Week of Waste Prevention

By Winfried Mühling, General Manager, Pro Carton

Against the backdrop of the COP26 climate change conference earlier this month, European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) has never had more meaning. The thematic focus this year on the circular economy underlines the need to ensure that both individual citizens and wider society are involved and engaged.

Greycon’s charity walk from London to Athens

On Friday 1st October, members of the Greycon team started a collective walk covering the distance between their London office and their office located in Athens to raise money and awareness for WasteAid. Each member of the team is contributing their steps towards the challenge, which is an estimated 3,466,000 steps covering 1,733 miles.