查看更多>>摘要：The improvement in living standards, affordability of consumer goods and small price differential with new products means the price structure does not make second-hand items appealing to most people. This strengthens the linear economy as consumers' purchasing rationale is one of "I might as well buy new". While a linear economy will continue to exist in some form - new goods will be needed to replace those that have come to the end of their useful life - the circular economy is becoming more important. But there needs to be more widespread acceptance of reuse, not just recycling, in the circular economy.
查看更多>>摘要：This year, the Textile Recycling Association (TRA) has been celebrating its centenary. The ride has been a roller-coaster, with a string of business closures in the first few weeks of the year, followed by an anniversary reception at the Houses of Parliament. This was followed by more closures while, at the same time, more positive developments took place through the Clothing Roadmap and other initiatives led by WRAP and the London and Mer-seyside Textiles Forum.
查看更多>>摘要：Quality specifications have been drawn up concerning the bagging of used clothing and other household textiles including, shoes, handbags, curtains and bedding from charity shops. The guidelines have been drawn up by the Textile Recycling Association (TRA) in consultation with the Charity Retail Association. The specifications relate to charity shop used clothing and household textiles that are unsuitable for sale at charity shops and are traditionally sold to the reuse and recycling trade.
查看更多>>摘要：I am frequently the recipient of phone calls that usually start like this: "Used tyres are a problem aren't they?" The short answer is, yes, they can be, but not because the UK lacks the capacity to make good use of the recovery and recycling opportunities they offer. The Landfill Directive requires that all European countries recover all their end-of-life tyre arisings and that is exactly what the UK does. The real question is do we act in the best ways possible? The answer to that is more elusive.
查看更多>>摘要：The coalition Government continues to set its stamp on the waste sector with red tape reductions and growth-friendly policies. At the same time, constrained funding is affecting both the public sector, such as job cuts at the Environment Agency (EA), and the private sector, such as the curtailment of PFI funding for projects now deemed unnecessary. There is little in the way of new legal developments in the pipeline, and the regulatory theme appears to be to streamline and make do with the existing tools available.
查看更多>>摘要：The Landfill Directive aims to prevent, or reduce as far as possible, the negative environmental effects of landfill as well as risks to human health. The requirements of the Directive include classifying sites into: landfills that accept hazardous waste; landfills that accept non-hazardous waste; and landfills for inert waste. This led to the end of co-disposal of hazardous with non-hazardous waste in July 2004.
查看更多>>摘要：In 2003, the European Directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) came into force. It was transposed into UK law under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2006 (as amended), which placed the responsibility of financing the recycling and recovery of WEEE on the producers of goods. In July 2012, the WEEE (Recast) Directive came into force, requiring that all member states would need to transpose the Directive into national law by February 2014.
查看更多>>摘要：The Directive on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators (2006/66/EC) prescribed rules regarding the collection, treatment and recovery of waste batteries and waste accumulators. The Directive was transposed into UK law via the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009, a producer responsibility regime, and via the Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2008.
查看更多>>摘要：As part of the 1987 Montreal Protocol - the international response to the destruction of the Earths ozone layer - the EU issued Regulation No 1005/2009 in January 2010 which implements its commitment on substances that deplete the ozone layer. The UK is already covered by the Environmental Protection (Controls on Ozone-Depleting Substances) Regulations 2002 (SI 2002/528), which were introduced in 2002 and apply to England, Wales, Scotland (relating to importation) and Northern Ireland.
查看更多>>摘要：A year ago, Peter Butt, executive director of the Wood Recyclers' Association (WRA), wrote here of a difficult situation for the sector. The closure of the Sonae panelboard mill on Mersey-side had combined with a mild winter in northern Europe to depress markets and create stock constipation in its members' yards. The consequent increases in gate fees were offset by a tightening of specifications and/or a fall in prices at the board mills.
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