Napoli the container ship which stalled in early 2007 is set to undergo recycling. The job of taking to pieces the ship's remaining stern part started in Branscombe last week in readiness for its ultimate removal while dismantling of the bow is almost finished at the Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff. Every piece of the metal that went into constructing the Napoli will be recycled. Joris Minne, the spokesperson of Harland and Wolff admitted that the work of recycling Napoli was a very big project since the ship had some sixty thousand tonnes of steel. Approximately one hundred and fifty ... Full Story

The global increase in the use of computers has lead to a huge stockpile of old computers and electronic equipment. Scientists have been working on a new study that could see computer components, which are potentially toxic, recycled and potentially used to fuel your car. The study aims to find an environmentally friendly and cost efficient method for recycling computer components. The researchers in Romania and Turkey have developed a way of recycling printed circuit boards into a raw material which could be re-used in fuel, plastic and other products. Combinations of high temperatures, catalysts and chemical filtration were used to process ... Full Story

Mobile Phone Xchange (MPX) is one of the UK's biggest mobile phone recycling companies who focuses on tackling the UK's worsening mobile phone waste. Mobiles have a lifespan of only 18 months, and are often deposited on landfill sites and left to damage the environment. 15 million mobile phones are used and disposed of every year, and Mobile Phone Xchange reported that approximately 1,700 are dumped by Britons every hour. These used mobiles end up as landfill or cluttering up draws in British homes. Mobile Phone Xchange aim to tackle mobile waste by collecting used and unwanted mobiles and selling them ... Full Story

IChemE recently conducted a household survey and discovered that as much as £610 worth of food is thrown away every year by the average family in the UK. As a result of these figures, the group has released a new guide to help families reduce the amount of household waste they generate. According to IChemE’s Director of Policy, Andrew Furlong, the recently published ten-step guide covers all aspects of waste management and does no solely focus on food waste reduction. "People must rethink the way they approach waste if we're to avoid being lost to landfill The UK sends more rubbish to ... Full Story

ScottishPower Renewables and partner Eurus Energy are taking the concept of recycling to a whole new level by announcing plans to redevelop the oldest wind-farm in the UK and boost its efficiency. The wind farm is in Powys, mid-Wales, and was the largest of its kind in Europe when it was first built in 1992. Now, a joint venture is seeking permission to redevelop Llandinam. If approved, the wind farm would become the tallest in the country. The wind farm currently operates 103 turbines and generates 31 megawatts of clean green energy. If the redevelopment plan is approved, the wind farm would ... Full Story

A new company is in town, offering to pick up waste, save consumers money and contribute to the environment. Intelligent Waste Management Solutions (IWMS) is able to operate at around half the cost of their competition largely due to their recycling activities. The company reprocesses and sells recyclable materials like metals and plastics from the waste it picks up. A recent survey from the company indicates that up to 60 per cent of waste generated from businesses in the UK is easily recyclable and the company does its best to keep as much waste out of the landfill as possible. Director of IWMS, ... Full Story

New reports in the Express indicate that despite opposition from Gordon Brown, ministers are continuing to promote a plan to institute a pay-as-you-throw bin tax. Five pilots programs are being tested across the UK. The schemes include a fine of up to £1,000 a year for families which do not adequately recycle. The Prime Minister recently decided to scrap the plans in order to gain more votes from middle class Britons. According to one source, “Punitive rises in council taxes are not what we need.” But Shadow Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles says that the public has merely been misled into believing they ... Full Story

A plan by Marks and Spencer to initiate a new office recycling and collection initiative for leftover food wrapping from office workers is in the pipeline. Marks and Spencer has joined hands with Closed Loop Recycling in the food wrapping recycling initiative. Some of the food wrapping material from Marks and Spencer will bear the logo of Closed Loop Recycling and information on how one can join. Offices which sign up for the initiative will get branded recycling boxes. According to Marks and Spencer, an office of twenty people who would generate around five bags of waste every week would need to ... Full Story

Plans by the government are underway to raise consumer awareness on the recycling of waste electronics and electrical equipment in order to increase the recycling rate. Statistics from the second half of last year indicate that in the United Kingdom six kilograms of electronic and electrical devices were being collected per capita. This was way above the European Union target of four kilograms per capita. The director of sustainable development at the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Tony Pedrotti, has disclosed that by the end of the year the government was intending to raise the collection rate of electrical and ... Full Story

A meeting between local authority leaders and DEFRA has been planned. The aim of the meeting is to iron out a clause in the waste law which requires local authorities to offer waste disposal services to educational and penal institutions for instance at no cost. The meeting was proposed by Joan Ruddock of DEFRA. In a letter to council chief executives, the chairperson of the Local Government Association's environment board, councillor Paul Bettison, had earlier said that providing free waste disposal services to the said institutions would be too expensive for the local authorities. On the financial implications of the clause, Mrs. ... Full Story

According to Consumers International, British charities and waste brokers are dumping what they call "e-waste" into developing countries. They say that as a way of getting rid of old, broken PC's the waste brokers and some charities are sending them to developing countries like Ghana and Nigeria under the false pretence of donating them to schools and hospitals as working, second hand equipment, when the truth of the matter is that only one in four actually work! It is not only Brittan that has been accused of dumping equipment.  Countries like the U.S and some European countries have also been exporting useless ... Full Story

It seems that many individuals in the United Kingdom really are paying attention to the recycling issues that are going on around them. If you have not heard by now the new recycling figures for the United Kingdom have come out. We are finding that the households in England are beginning to recycle most, if not all of their rubbish and this is according to some new Government statistics. These new Government statistics are showing a pretty big increase of recycling rates around thirty one percent to thirty three percent. Defra-Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has published a ... Full Story