With news on: Viridor survey highlights recycling frustration; Willshee’s helps McDonalds’ food waste collections; ‘Female Banksy’ joins textile recycling campaign; and, Geminor and DFDS launch RDF export film.
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Viridor survey highlights recycling frustration
Around 80% of people in an annual survey conducted by Viridor believe the UK should find a way to deal with its own recycling without having to export it to other countries.
The results come as part of the Viridor UK Recycling Index 2018, which also showed that eight in ten (82%) are worried about plastics in the ocean and three in five (61%) are more likely to buy products with recycled packaging.
Viridor’s UK Recycling Index 2018 showed an increase in public concern
The survey interviewed 1,879 people in the UK in a regionally representative sample.
Other key findings from 2018 shows that four in ten (41%) think that even though people separate their recyclable and non-recyclable waste, it all goes to the same place – up 8pts from 2017, and 72% are frustrated about not knowing what can be recycled – up 5pts from 2017.
Phil Piddington, managing director of Viridor, said: “Public concern over the environmental impact of plastics continues to gain momentum in the UK, in parallel to a broader awareness of the importance of recycling generally.
“The 2018 Index shows that not only are people increasingly confused over what and how they can recycle, they’re also becoming less confident that businesses or government are playing their respective roles in ensuring resources are given new life.”
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Willshee’s helps McDonalds’ food waste collections
A £150,000 investment into segregated waste collection vehicles by Burton-based waste company Willshee’s has helped McDonald’s and other food outlets to increase the food waste it collects.
The new vehicle primarily collects segregated food and glass at the point of collection and delivers the food waste to a local anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in the West Midlands and the glass to a processing facility.
(l-r) David and Dean Willshee, Sarah McLean – McDonald’s restaurants, and Ash Raven – McDonald’s business manager
Commenting on the new vehicle, Sarah McLean, franchise owner of 16 McDonalds restaurants in the Midlands said the new vehicles helps the company reach is environmental aims.
“We take our responsibilities very seriously when it comes to all aspects of the environment and more broadly McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd is always looking for ways to improve waste disposal and recycling,” she explained.
Ms McLean added: “The new service from Willshee’s provides our business with a system to separate out our food and general waste, which in turn is helping us to fulfil our business target of zero waste to landfill by 2020.”
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‘Female Banksy’ joins textile recycling campaign
London based eco-fashion campaign #LoveNotLandfill has enlisted the support of anonymous street artist Bambi to redesign clothes banks and encourage recycling.
A clothing bank featuring artwork by street artist Bambi
Bambi, who is often dubbed the ‘Female Banksy’, has created an image of a young girl holding up a dress. The artwork is part of the EU-backed European Clothing Action Plan (ECAP).
The image has been sprayed onto a limited number of banks placed in TopShop’s Oxford Circus store, Beyond Retro in Great Marlborough Street and Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre, plus two more coming later in September in Westfield’s shopping centres in Shepherd’s Bush and Stratford.
The campaign will run for six months and comes on the back of a poll by the campaign which showed that a quarter of 16-24 year olds do not know what they can do to reduce the impact of fast fashion and over a third have never used a textiles recycling bank.
Hannah Carter from #LoveNotLandfill said: “We want people to stop throwing clothes away and pass them on instead to slow down the pace of fast fashion.”
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Geminor and DFDS launch RDF export film
The three minute film follows a single shipment of RDF from Nottingham to Sweden
Secondary fuel recovery specialist Geminor and shipping and logistics firm DFDS, have partnered to launch a film showcasing the export journey of (RDF).
The three minute film follows a single shipment of RDF, from production at the Enva depot in Nottingham, to recovery at Renova’s energy from waste (EfW) facility in Sweden.
The film explores the complex logistics journey and highlights stringent quality management processes applied to each shipment, the companies say.
James Maiden, UK Country Manager at Geminor, commented: “While the UK’s EfW infrastructure continues to expand, demand continues to surpass capacity. As such, export is essential to prevent the unnecessary landfilling of valuable resources. Launching a film to explain the international RDF logistics journey aims to not only educate, but also showcase the benefits of supplying fuel for Scandinavia’s district heating network.”
The video is available to watch on YouTube here.
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