The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) was founded 70 years ago on March 18, 1948. Appropriately, BIR held its inaugural Global Recycling Day …
‘Significant’ cost for council from collapsed contractor
The three councils have stopped working together on the recycling contract, though have separately agreed to tender a joint £141m waste disposal …
Despray offers solution for 15 billion aerosols recycled ‘the wrong way’
‘Around 15 billion aerosol cans are available for recycling this year,’ Mike MacKay of Despray told Recycling International at the Pollutec expo in Lyon.
Only two bids for £37m local authority contract
Only one other firm made a full bid when Biffa displaced Veolia as Waverley Borough Council’s refuse, recycling and street cleaning contractor, the …
ACCC slams Visy Recycling over unfair customer contracts
Corporate regulator the ACCC has forced Visy Recycling, part of cardboard packaging giant Visy Industries, and two other major recycling businesses …
Who owns your waste? Thefts from bins and backyards anger recyclers
There’s been a spate of thefts of discarded cans and bottles, with victims claiming thieves just take the stuff they’ve stolen to recycling depots to get the …
Best Oasis Weekly Recycling Market Report, Week 48 2018
India Market: The prices of steel in local market should stabilize in the coming days, but it all pertains to the local plus global political scenario.
Visy Recycling, Cleanaway and Suez remove potentially unfair contract terms
Visy Paper Pty Ltd (trading as Visy Recycling), Cleanaway Pty Ltd and Suez Recycling & Recovery Pty Ltd have reviewed and amended potentially …
Extra recycling service over the silly season
AN extra yellow bin pick up will be carried out over Christmas to keep up with the extra household recycling generated over the busy season.
Plastic bottle packagers join fight against plastic pollution
Watamu Waste Management and Recycling Enterprises director Steve Trott, PET Company manager Joyce Gachugi and PECTO chairman John …