Friends of Glass has released a new online campaign video featuring comedian rapper Doc Brown in an attempt to inform ‘millenials’ about the benefits of glass recycling.

Dolav will be presenting its new stackable recycling box, the Dolav DFLC, at this year’s RWM show.

The Prospecting Secondary Materials in the Urban Mine and Mining Wastes (ProSUM) project is set to launch the first Urban Mine Knowledge Data Platform to increase the recovery of WEEE, end-of-life vehicles, batteries and mining wastes.

Wales’ recycling rate for the 12 months leading up to March 2017 has reached 64 per cent, up four per cent on the figure reported in March 2016 and achieving its target for 2020 three years early.

Bolton Council has reportedly saved £3.4 million in waste disposal costs since the introduction of its ‘slim bins’, while also increasing the authority’s recycling rate to over 50 per cent.

China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has released a list of materials that will be banned from import from the start of 2018. Steel, copper, nickel, aluminium, zinc and tin were notable absences, according to Reuters.

Beverage carton recycling provision by local authorities has jumped from 10 per cent to 92 per cent in the past decade.

Waste and resource use have been identified as a key area for action in the Mayor of London’s draft London Environment Strategy, which sets a municipal recycling target of 65 per cent for 2030.

The UK’s first battery recycling facility is set to open this autumn after Ecosurety and Belmont Trading today announced a partnership that aims to make the UK self-sufficient in battery recycling as it prepares to leave the EU.

A 16 per cent increase in shipments of higher conversion premium automotive products, helped by a closed loop recycling system, has boosted Novelis’ first quarter financial results for 2017/18.