Resource learns about a threat to one of the UK’s already existing circular economy success stories: tyre retreading

Recofloor, the national vinyl recycling scheme, has set a new annual collection record by collecting 508 tonnes of material for recycling in 2015.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has been awarded £500,000 by the People’s Postcode Lottery to support the mobilisation of its New Plastics Economy initiative [http://resource.co/article/new-plastics-economy-could-revolutionise-industry-10776], launched last month.

Ray Georgeson, delivering the 2016 Kit Strange Memorial Lecture, yesterday called for more united lobbying by recycling industries and ‘an active and enabling state’ to improve the sector’s prospects.

New appointments have been made at ACE UK, WRAP, VEKA Recycling, Viridor and Europen.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, Greggs carrier bags helping Keep Britain Tidy, Poundland recycling and an online can recycling game.

A plastics economy based on a circular economy approach could ‘transform’ the plastics industry and ‘drastically reduce’ its environmental impact, according to a report by the World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

A new report published by the European Environment Agency draws attention to both the benefits and challenges in transitioning to a circular economy.

A Manchester waste plastic recycling firm has been made to pay £20,000 after an employee suffered ‘life changing injuries’ to his hand when it was dragged into a granulator machine.

In 2015, 31 per cent of carpet waste (125,000 tonnes) was diverted from landfill, with the majority going for energy according to industry recycling group Carpet Recycling UK.