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Recycling lives has won a Queen's Award for the third time, the award is the highest award that can be given to UK businesses for international trade. This time the award was given for processing waste for businesses like John Lewis and BT and recovring metal and plastics for recycling.
Read MoreTechnology giant Apple, have developed a new robot called Daisy which is capable of extracting parts from 9 different types of iPhone at 200 phones per hour. This is to help them achieve their goal of manufacturing their products from 100% recycled materials.
Read MoreA new app has been launched to encourage people to recycle their unwanted clothes with the incentive to buy more clothes....Around £140 million of unwanted clothing ends up in landfill in the UK with more than 60% of homes having unwanted clothes in their house.
Read MoreScientists at the University of Portsmouth have accidentally discovered an enzyme which can digest plastic, which could revolutionise recycling. The enzyme is PETase which is a nautrally occuring bacteria which was first discovered in a Japanese recycling centre back in 2016.
Read MoreThis weeks Recycling Roundup includes stories about a city in Australia is sending all of their recycling to landfill due to costs, a pensioner has been left with overflowing due to changes in bin collections in his hometown of Dundee, finally Cambridgeshire's recycling rates have been plummeting since 2015.
Read MoreThe 2 Sisters Food Group have announced plans to reduce the use of plastic in its operations. They have set a new plan to reduce plastic packaging by 2020 which include the phasing out of non-recyclable bottles and cups in all of their sites.
Read MoreResearchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a process to separate fibreglass and resin which are the most commonly discarded parts of a mobile phone. Most companies that recover e-waste focus on the precious metals like gold and silver, but the University have found way to separate the fibreglass and resin.
Read MoreWith China banning the importing of some recycling, many countries are now stuck with the dilemma with how to dispose recyclable waste, especially with plastics. 2 Options are send them to landfill which are slowly filling up, or incinerating, which causes damage to the atmosphere.
Read MoreUnilever is trialing a new method of recycling PET plastic with the end aim of recycling all waste PET plastic that can be made into food packaging. Unilever has claimed that only 20% of PET bottles sold worldwide end up being recycled.
Read MoreStories for this weeks Recycling Roundup include criminals in Germany have reversed engineered the bottle desposit vending machines to pay out for multiple bottles, a business in has invested £250k into the scrap buying and processing facility in Cumbria, and finally a drinks can awareness programme were at the finish line to engage race fans.
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