Morley and Saint-Gobain raise a glass to a million tonnes saved
Morley Glass has joined Saint-Gobain Glass in celebrating a joint recycling venture that has saved one million tonnes of sand from being used in flat glass manufacturing.
The glass manufacturer reached the milestone after 21...
Rehau kicks off Recycling Week with awareness survey launch
Window businesses throughout the supply chain are being urged to join in a survey to ‘gain insights to enable change’ in perceptions of window recycling.
Rehau, which launched the survey to mark Recycling Week says...
VinylPlus sees over 813k tonnes recycled in ‘22
Some 813,266 tonnes of PVC waste were recycled within the VinylPlus framework in 2022, representing around 27% of the total PVC waste generated during the year, the organisation has announced.
Delegates from the member countries...
Veka Recycling adds silos for capacity and efficiency
Veka Recycling has invested £150k in six new silos to increase storage capacity at its Wellingborough recycling plant.
The extra space created by the two 20m3 and four 10m3 silos will increase efficiency by reducing the manual...
Veka Recycling plant ‘officially’ opened – at last
Veka Group CEO Andreas Hartleif has officially opened The new Veka Recycling plant – some 15 months after the £15million facility went live, when ever-changing Covid restrictions allowed the global head of the group...
Padiham Glass joins Glass Forever
Padiham Glass has joined Glass Forever, the closed loop glass recycling programme from Saint-Gobain Glass.
The sealed unit manufacturer, which is part of the Emplas Group, will return glass from end-of-life windows plus any waste...
Morley tops 200 tonnes with glass recycling initiative
Morley Glass & Glazing has saved more than 200 tonnes of post-consumer glass from being landfilled stopping 64,226kg of CO2 emissions from going into the atmosphere as well as raising money for charities’ green...
Morley Glass bangs the steel drum louder for waste re-use
An innovative scheme developed to ensure more waste packaging can be reused, rather than recycled or sent to landfill, is on track to break its target of giving a second lease of life to...
Industry bodies join for timber recycling plan
The Glass & Glazing Federation and British Woodworking Federation have joined forces to launch a timber frame recycling initiative to work alongside the GGF’s existing PVCu and aluminium operations as well as its pilot...
Installers reminded over new hazardous wood recycling regs
Installers and other contractors are being reminded of new environmental obligations that mean wood products from buildings built between 1950 and 2007 may not be sent direct to recycling without specialist testing for hazardous...
