Posts Tagged ‘George Kiernan’

Following a consultation that took place in 2020, the Welsh government has proposed a ban on many common single-use plastic items. It was said in the announcement that this would be the most comprehensive legislation introduced by any of the UK nations on single-use plastics.

According to recent statistics from the National Packaging Waste Database, the UK recycled a record high amount of plastic packaging in Q2 of this year.

The UK’s first dedicated recycling park has been given the go-ahead by Cheshire West and Chester Council’s planning committee.

A new report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), titled ‘Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060’, forecasts that global plastic waste production is set to triple by 2060.

As of 1st April 2022, the new plastic packaging tax is in effect in the United Kingdom. Under this tax, businesses who do not use plastic packaging with a minimum of 30% recycled content will have to pay a £200 per tonne levy.

A new set of environment and sustainability targets were announced yesterday by the government of the United Kingdom, which included the aim of halving the amount of waste sent to landfill and incineration by 2042.

Contaminated Recycling Bins The recycling industry in the United Kingdom is facing a growing problem as households are more and more often failing to properly dispose of the waste they produce. The last few years have seen this problem steadily increase as residents place greater amounts of non-recyclable waste items, such as food waste or…

Data from Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows that the country’s plastic waste recycling rate is only 28%. This is a very troublesome figure in the face of Ireland’s 2030 emissions reduction targets.

Domestic Plastic Recycling report outlined a route to increasing the amount of plastic waste recycled in Northern Ireland and across the UK in 2030 by as much as three-and-a-half times the 2019 levels.

A group of cross-party MPs is calling for the government’s proposed deposit-return scheme (DRS) for drinks containers to use a variable price model.