Coca-Cola Enterprises and Tesco launch ‘Pledge, Play and Recycle’ campaign to encourage customers to recycle more.

Coca-Cola Enterprises and Tesco launch ‘Pledge, Play and Recycle’ campaign to encourage customers to recycle more.

Government has backed a new industry partnership campaign, Pledge 4 Plastics, which aims to increase the collection of plastic packaging for recycling.

Packaging recovery notes will be issued for aluminium packaging recovered from incinerator bottom ash for recycling from 1 January 2015.

More than 95 per cent of respondents to a recycling poll said they ‘actively recycle household items’.

Sixty-five billion PET plastic bottles were recycled in Europe in 2013, according to Petcore Europe.

Residents in North Lincolnshire will be able to recycle plastic food containers and bottle tops once more following MRF operator changes.

Carrier Bag Levy statistics for Northern Ireland show that the charge has reduced carrier bag use by 71.8 per cent.

A year after a Chinese lantern started a waste fire, a code of practice has been launched to ‘minimise risk’.

The British Plastics Federation Recycling Group calls for packaging recovery note targets to favour domestic recycling.