Yorwaste Blog

It is pleasing to read that the recycling of beverage cartons is on the increase.

There is no reason for the cartons to be put into landfill, as they can be easily recycled, but until recently many local authorities did not include them as part of kerbside collections.

But, new figures released by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK show that half of all local authorities are now collecting cartons, which hold products such as milk, soup and chopped tomatoes, from the kerbside. READ MORE

Ensuring that we recycle as much waste packaging as possible is clearly very important – though you may be surprised at the amount of packaging that’s currently being recycled in the UK.

The figure may be higher than you imagine. According to a detailed 2008 report by the Advisory Committee on Packaging (an independent expert committee which advises the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs): READ MORE

Guest blog by Gary Flynn, Founder and Managing Director of Toner Giant

Ink and toner cartridges are probably the last thing on a person’s mind when asked about recycling, in fact – statistics show that cartridges are one of the least popular consumable items to recycle regardless of their re-usability and value.

We could talk all day about how we only recycle 30% of all our cartridges, leaving a massive 70% in landfills across the world (350 million to be exact), and how each new cartridge could be reused another four times for 80% less energy. READ MORE

With spring just around the corner, many people will be preparing to get back into their gardens to get them ready for summer – if we have one!

This will coincide with kerbside collections of green waste also getting back under way (fewer local authorities now collect through the winter) so if you don’t do it already, please remember to recycle as much of your garden waste as possible in 2013.

When garden waste is recycled, and here’s a video to show you how it is done, it is transformed into nutrient rich soil conditioner. This can then be used in a range of different applications, such as for agriculture, for land reclamation and as an ingredient in some READ MORE