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August has brought with it a host of new, innovative recycling projects, including building LEGO houses from discarded plastic (Ed Sheeran would be proud...) Building a LEGO House - $5,000 Homes from Recycled Plastic Blocks A company in Colombia is recycling plastic for the most incredible reason - to build real-life LEGO houses. Conceptos Plasticos is tackling both plastic waste i...

July has brought with it the hottest days of the years so far, along with ice-cream related recycling news and some trouble at the beach We All Scream For Ice Cream! You'd never have thought it, but chocolate ice cream has emerged as the most powerful flavour for green energy, following a project in which inedible ice cream waste is being turned into biogas for the National Grid. Cho...

  June has seen the UK’s recycling rate fall for the first time this year, despite councils putting more and more emphasis on recycling. So what’s going wrong? And why has fly-tipping increased in Nottinghamshire? ITV Battle Of The Bins [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Image from ITV News[/caption] In June, ITV investigated the fall in recycling rates with a program ...

April and May have seen a wealth of new recycling stories appear, such as news from tech-giant Apple on the gold recovered from their Apple Renew program and updates on Jaguar's REALCAR scheme. Striking Gold [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="878"] Image from the Telegraph[/caption] This past month Apple have reported recovering almost 1000kg of gold with a worth of £28 million th...

Recycling news hasn’t slowed down over the past 2 months, despite the yearly recycling statistics having already been announced by large UK companies. February and March saw the supermarket giants shaking things up with announcements of their own. Buy-One-Get-None-Free Fans of 2-for-1 might want to avoid Sainsbury’s as the chain plans to scrap its multi-buy promotions by August 2016. With...

The turn of the year has brought some interesting and positive news stories which will hopefully set the trend for the rest of 2016. Clean For The Queen The 14th January saw the launch of a nationwide campaign, Clean for The Queen. This year, Queen Elizabeth II will turn 90 and the country will be litter free, or so the scheme aims. Clean for The Queen is asking everyone to clean up litte...

As we celebrate, decorate, give gifts and travel through the Christmas period, one thing that we shouldn’t avoid is recycling. It has been found that 30% more waste is produced through the festive period, such as Christmas trees, wrapping paper, cards, plastic waste and food waste. Hopefully, these festive tips will help reduce the waste sent to landfills! Wrapping Paper It has been found...

October and November have been pretty quiet on the recycling news front, although still some interesting stories nonetheless. Plastic Bag Charge Right back at the beginning of October – the 5p plastic bag charge came into play! The scheme has been introduced to reduce single-use carrier bags and the litter associated with them, by encouraging people to re-use their bags. In 2014, o...

The recycling world is a fast paced industry and as you have hopefully noticed, monthly blog articles have been posted which keep up to date with recent events and news over that month. September is no exception and it has been a successful month when it comes to recycling and being sustainable. Zero Waste Week At the beginning of the month the national zero waste week was held from 7 – 13th...

The recycling industry is continuously growing with new statistic released on a regular basis and large brands doing what they can to become more sustainable. Therefore I thought it would be useful to do a monthly blog article presenting the most interesting eco efforts. England’s Household Recycling Rates On The Rise First of all I need to start with the fact that England’s household rec...

Last week Defra announced that England’s household recycling rates have edged up to almost 45%, which is up 5% in 5 years. I believe there is more we can do to increase this level than just recycling our household waste. Searching the web over the past few days I’ve found some amazing and interesting ways to re-use and reduce waste around your home - my favourites are as followed. 1) Upcy...

Over the past month I have been actively updating our social media accounts (hopefully you have noticed?!), and in doing this I’ve seen that there are a lot of newsworthy stories about recycling and worldwide efforts to help the environment. Therefore I have decided to take a look back and show a brief summary of some large companies and their eco-friendly efforts throughout July. Adidas Cre...

Supplying the public sector is something we pride ourselves on and Northumberland County Council (NCC) have recently picked up on our work in this area. We have been named as a supplier on their website for the litter campaign they are currently running. The “LOVE Northumberland- Caring for our County” Campaign has been running since 2011 to help promote recycling and waste disposable across...

Companies, especially in the technology and creative industries, are putting a lot of money and energy into designing and creating offices that are more interesting and fun. This is in order to increase the morale, creativity and productivity of their employees. From fake grass to bunting, treehouses to slides. Below are some of the most interesting office environments in the world. 1) Innocen...

Our office will be closed from Wednesday 24th December (1pm) and will reopen on Monday 5th January 2015. If you require delivery before Christmas, please check the product lead times on our website or call our sales team to confirm, before placing an order. All orders will be processed up until the 24th December, although there will be a limited delivery service during the Christmas holiday ...

Some people may wonder why recycling is so important. In the world we live in now, we should all be ideally recycling at home and in the work place to protect the environment for the future. Materials collected from recycling are used to manufacture new products and require less energy to make compared to producing products from virgin materials. In a landfill, many types of waste generate h...