Plastic Recycling News
2010
Government Drivers follow the wrong Diversion
Route for Polythene recycling
The link between waste handling of polythene film packaging at source and an
end processor has been lost. There is now a sector in between, supported by the
PERN system, whose default position for waste is to send it abroad and not recycle
it here, says Jessica Baker
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2009
Waste shipped around the world
Jessica Baker, joint managing director of
Chase Plastics, Brandon and a member of the national Waste Action Forum,
which includes representatives of paper, aluminium and glass recycling
companies, explains why she believes the UK recycling industry has been brought
to its knees by Government policies
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2008
Lets Recycle
Plastic film should be ditched from kerbside household recycling schemes to
boost recycling, a plastics reprocessor has said today.
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2007
Mixed Plastics Collections Bad for Material Quality:
Chase Plastics Joins Campaign for
Real Recycling
Jessica Baker, managing director of Chase Plastics, said: “As committed
UK plastics recyclers, we are pleased to support the Campaign for Real
Recycling as we believe that the UK needs to urgently address the quality
issues surrounding recycling collections. The UK should aim to recycle
its own waste as much as possible, and careful recycling collections and
handling is key to this.
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2005
Glasswells chase recycling targets
East Anglian furniture retailers Glasswells is working with Chase Plastics
to recycle polythene sheeting used to protect furniture during delivery
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2004
The great plastics hunt
Recyclers in the UK are struggling to survive
under reams of red-tape and legislation, which is a far cry from the halcyon
days in the 1970s and 80s before recycling was exported on a large scale.
Steven Pacitti talks to a company that is fighting back.
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