Against a backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic and a subsequent green recovery, targets to mitigate the impacts of climate change, and Brexit, this webinar will explore how towns, villages and communities across Wales can implement circular solutions, helping to move the country closer to a circular economy. Join a panel of experts and government representatives [...]
This year’s spending review for 2021-22, delivered by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on 25 November, highlighted the particular importance of implementing ‘consistent’ waste collection systems – including food waste – across local authorities in England. Building on the Environment Bill and Resources and Waste Strategy, in which the Government has promised separate collections [...]
The BPF strongly advocates the enabling of circularity in the use of plastics - the value of materials and resources should be kept in use and always be prioritised. Plastic that break down at an accelerated rate are not a solution to littering. Also, the environment in which plastics are littered cannot be controlled or [...]
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) has arrived in the UK for compostable food packaging. Vegware, a compostable products supplier based in Scotland and also active in the USA, began its partnership with the composting sector in 2010 to enable its clients to access commercial composting. Eilidh Brunton, senior waste management consultant at Vegware, [...]
The world is drowning in plastic. The sheer volume and variety of plastics on the market, and its persistence in nature, create significant risks for human and animal health and the survival of sensitive ecosystems. While Canada proposes regulating plastics as a toxic substance under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, and to ban [...]
It's no secret that organic farmers believe in compost, but just what role compost plays in soil's ability to store carbon - and keep it out of the atmosphere, where it contributes to climate change - has been less clear. A recent study out of the University of California, Davis suggests that compost plays a [...]
For years, plastic has played an important role in the food and drink sector by protecting goods from damage and ensuring a longer shelf life. But with the UK generating around 2.4 million tonnes per year of packaging waste, according to circular economy experts at WRAP, the industry is facing a crisis. “Plastic [...]
The world wastes more than 1.3 billion tonnes of food each year. The planet’s 1 billion hungry people could be fed on less than a quarter of the food wasted in the US and Europe. In a recent report, the World Economic Forum identified cutting food waste by up to 20 million tonnes as one [...]
The Australian Organics Recycling Association (AORA), the national voice of the organics recycling industry, believes Plastic Wars, featured on Four Corners, contains valuable lessons for Australia in better managing its waste and recycling tasks. Plastic Wars, a PBS Frontline production from the USA, was featured on Four Corners on 10 August and provides [...]
Farmers using plastic mulch film now have a compostable alternative that returns to the earth as organic matter instead of polluting soil with microplastics that remain for decades, even centuries. An Australian made, compostable agricultural film called BioAgri can be customised for farmers by Adelaide-based BioBag World Australia. In a circular story, the BioAgri film [...]