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Tag: Recycling

Collection of miscellaneous seized knives in box, including choppers, machetes and swords.
March 25, 2025 Jim McClelland

Recycling turns street weapons into workouts

News: Recycling initiative in London takes six tonnes of seized knives off streets and turns weapons into gym equipment for public workouts.

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Close-up of orange and grey threads strung out of garment fragment.
April 4, 2024 Jim McClelland

Fibre reuse from old garments in circular workwear

News: Reusing fibres from worn-out garments to make new ones, a leading workwear manufacturer is pioneering a method of circular production.

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Person approaching from behind to put can into branded 'Every can counts' recycling backpack, being worn by another.
February 14, 2024 Jim McClelland

European can recycling programme expands into US

News: Making its debut at Mardi Gras 2024, pioneering recycling programme expands into US to help keep aluminium drinks cans out of landfill.

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Portrait of PhD researcher Susana Meza Huaman working in the lab, in white coat, with protective glasses.
January 31, 2024 Jim McClelland

Rapid chemical recycling for single-use bioplastics

News: Researchers discover a method of chemical recycling that achieves full degradation of single-use bioplastics within just 24 hours.

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Mostly monochrome image of carbon black powder being poured out of a beaker in a laboratory, with thumb tip of cyan blue rubber glove visible.
October 11, 2023 Jim McClelland

Recovered carbon black could cut emissions 93%

News: Circular innovation in recovered materials could cut emissions from the use of carbon black in tyre production by up to 93%.

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Volvo FM all-electric truck in white and blue livery, with EMR Metal Recycling branding down side, pictured on country road.
July 11, 2023 Jim McClelland

First all-electric truck for Amsterdam metal recyclers

News: Sustainable materials specialist adds first all-electric truck to fleet in the Netherlands, carrying 30-tonne loads of recycled metal.

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Men pictured picking up and sorting garbage from the street, beside rusty rubbish skip and lorry full of trash.
May 9, 2023 Jim McClelland

Millions of jobs in circular economy for Global South

News: Circular economy offers job creation worldwide, but report shows research is ignoring the Global South, where most work will be found.

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Artist's impression of the Kuusakoski recycling plant to be located on the waterfront in Veitsiluoto, a port on the Northern Gulf of Bothnia, Finland
March 22, 2023 Jim McClelland

First carbon-free recycling plant for steel

News: Leading recycling services company plans to invest €25M in building a steel recycling plant in Finland to operate 100% carbon free.

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Tray with five new recyclable delivery bowls: three are round, two with lids stacked on top of one another, the third is open showing food; one oval bowl has lid, other displays food inside. Chopsticks and Wagamama branded napkins in foreground
August 17, 2022 Jim McClelland

Packaging: cutting plastic and carbon from katsu curry

News: Sustainable packaging launch by restaurant chain will cut 330 tonnes of virgin plastic from supply chain and waste stream every year.

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Sunflower bud opening, showing whorls of leaves and petals in green, to suggest circularity.
July 26, 2022 Jim McClelland

Circular economy investment set to spike

News: Analysis reveals big rise in the number and value of circular economy investment deals in the UK, with growth about to bloom in 2022.

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