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  The Climate Change Committee has recommended the UK Goverment implement policies to ensure the near elimination of all waste being sent to landfill by 2045. By law the UK must reach net zero, which means the country is no longer adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, by 2050. The Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) seventh carbon budget sets out a limit on the UK’s greenhouse…

  Trewin Restorick, Founder of Sizzle Innovation, explains how his new sustainable venture is aiming to transform waste into wonderful, circular solutions for your garden.  There is a saying that where there is muck there is money, but is it true? The theory will be tested with the launch of Treasure Gardening a new social enterprise seeking to celebrate the wonders of waste by making high-quality horticulture products from waste…

  Fly-tipping incidents increased by 6% for the 2023-24 year, rising to 1.15 million from the 1.08 million reported in 2022-23. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has released statistics on fly-tipping incidents recorded by Local Authorities in England between April 2023 to March 2024. Defra also announced it will no longer publish local authority fly-tipping enforcement league tables, which were introduced under the previous government. According…

  The University of Leicester says its scientists have developed a new technique for recycling lithium-ion batteries using vegetable oil. The patent-pending technology extracts battery-grade metal oxides from crushed batteries using water and vegetable oil. The University said the technique purifies lithium-ion battery black mass, a low-value mixture of anode, cathode, and other materials, directly within minutes at room temperature. The research was led by Professor Andy Abbott and Dr…

In the current times, Coin Mixing and CoinJoins have emerged as top tools in the cryptocurrency environment that remove traces of digital currencies. These practices basically involve merging coins or tokens together so that transactions can become untraceable and individuals’ privacy can be maintained. These practices have undoubtedly gained immense popularity within as well as beyond the crypto community.   The coin mixing and coinjoins guide will help you broaden your…

  Following the official launch of PackUK, Zoe Brimelow, a Director at packaging manufacturer and consultancy Duo, looks at whether a national packaging plan is now needed to support packaging circularity. The recent Packaging Innovations and Empack trade show saw the public launch of the UK Government’s packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) scheme administrator, PackUK. A panel of representatives from the administrator’s steering group came together to outline the aims…

  Mass-produced plastic has changed the world for better or worse, Jessica Bradley explores how plastic has reshaped the Earth and what the global landscape currently looks like. In some ways, plastic has been a modern miracle – it’s durable, lightweight, strong, and low-cost, to name a few of its attributes. It’s no wonder then that since we started mass-producing plastic in the 1950s, society has gradually become reliant on…