Latest Recycling technology product news
Wilcox Textile Reclaimers has seen an astounding 37 percent reduction in the cost of collecting materials from its bins throughout the United Kingdom, using SmartBin’s advanced bin-monitoring technology and service. Based on the efficiencies derived from a 10-week trial covering 14 of its strategically positioned textile recycling bins, Wilcox has extended the use of SmartBin technology and services to all of their 1,500-plus bins throughout its entire collection system.
Wilcox immediately s... [more]
A new one year pilot project in Presteigne and Norton in Wales is challenging 1,200 householders and approximately 100 businesses to move towards zero waste. The first stage of the project focuses on households and businesses, whilst the second focuses on levering manufacturers to produce products which can be easily reused or recycled by consumers.
The pilot has been set up by Cwm Harry Land Trust, with support from Aylesford Newsprint, Powys County Council, members of Presteigne and Norton ... [more]
St Peter’s School in Aylesford, Kent, educates children from age four to 11. ACTIS Insulation is working with the primary school to help it reach its goal of becoming the UK’s first carbon neutral school. The project, being driven by Head Teacher Simon Temple, was initiated this Summer as part of a School House Challenge and now forms an important part of the school’s curriculum.
As part of the process, The School Council discusses new plans and initiatives to reduce the school’s environment... [more]
As more and more people search for cleaner technologies to meet the world’s energy and power demands, the urgency for solar technology developers to meet these needs has become imperative. In fact, the global solar photovoltaic market surged to an estimated $37 billion for 2008, with an estimated 51 percent compound annual growth rate through 2011, according to SET Energy.
Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. has announced a strategic alliance with Inabata America Corporation to market and sell the ... [more]
More than 60 Royal Mail customers have signed up to its Sustainable Mail™ service since it was unveiled in April this year. More than 30 million pieces of direct mail have now being delivered through the Sustainable Mail™ service, which encourages responsible behaviour by offering a lower price tariff for direct mail that meets newly developed environmental standards.
Organisations including BHS, EDF Energy, Standard Life Healthcare, Hotel Chocolat, National Grid, Oxfam, NS&I and Black Horse ... [more]
National Grid has drawn up a new concept for using local waste resources to provide local renewable gas. The blueprint for what are being called an Urban Energy Centres sets out a nationwide solution to providing renewable heat by efficiently harnessing the energy output from an integrated waste management system.
The concept outlines how waste streams from homes and businesses could be turned into renewable gas to maximise energy recovery:
o A centre, which could be sited at an in... [more]
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