The recycling company Nulife Glass has announced that it will be opening its first industrial plant in Irlam, Salford, in February. It has confirmed that this will lead to the creation of 30 new jobs. The plant will recycle glass from old television sets, where the lead will be extracted from the glass to be used again. The plan...

New battery recycling bins are currently being introduced across the country to increase the UK’s woeful battery recycling rate. Any shops that sell batteries will now be responsible for providing collection points so that customers will have an easy way in which to recycle them. 30,000 tonnes of batteries are sold in the UK annually, with the average household using 21 a year. But o...

MPs have demanded that the government gets tough on landfill waste. They have called for much firmer targets in the near future for greater food waste recycling across the country, both in households and in the much larger commercial sector. Household waste accounts for 9% of total waste every year, equal to 330 million tonnes, according to a report from ...

This January 2010 a new scheme is launched that provides schools in the UK with the opportunity to fundraise and meet government sustainability targets. Support Your School is a free service set up specifically to help schools recycle used inkjet printer cartridges and unwanted mobile phones. Support Your School rewards schools with £1 for every printer cartridge and £3 for every mo...

London is one of the lowest-ranked major cities in the world when it comes to recycling levels, but that could all be about to change if Mayor Boris Johnson gets his way. He is backing a new scheme to improve recycling rates across the city and bin London’s poor reputation. Named ‘Recycle Bank’, the scheme has already proved popular in the United States and Johnson is hoping the ...