Day: 10 June 2024

Material Focus allocates additional £750,000 to the Electricals Recycling Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Material Focus is reopening its Electricals Recycling Fund today, offering £750,000 of funding to support projects that make it easier for more people to reuse and recycle old and unwanted small household electricals. This follows previous rounds of funding that provided £1.8 million to fund over 40 UK projects, which will make it easier for over 10 million people to repair, donate or recycle their unwanted electricals. Material Focus’s research indicates that while 80% of consumers believe in recycling, many still discard electricals rather than recycling or reusing them. With…

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Electronic Waste Rising Five Times Faster than Documented E-waste Recycling: UN

Stuart Mitchell

The world’s generation of electronic waste is rising five times faster than documented e-waste recycling, the UN’s fourth Global E-waste Monitor (GEM) reveals today. A record 62 million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced in 2022, Up 82% from 2010; On track to rise another 32%, to 82 million tonnes, in 2030; Billions of dollars worth of strategically-valuable resources squandered, dumped; Just 1% of rare earth element demand is met by e-waste recycling The 62 million tonnes of e-waste generated in 2022 would fill 1.55 million 40-tonne trucks, roughly enough…

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The price of our addiction to cheap fast fashion as pressure builds on UK second hand clothing market

Stuart Mitchell

New WRAP research shows people are putting almost half (49%) of all used textiles in the rubbish bin. On average, each person in the UK throws a shocking 35 items of unwanted textiles straight into general waste every year. Meanwhile, the textiles that do get donated responsibly have plummeted in price due to saturation of low-quality fast fashion on the market, resulting in less income for reuse and recycling sectors. WRAP urges key partners across brands, retailers, investors and governments to support the UK’s textiles reuse and recycling sector through…

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Nuby Announces Partnership With Fareshare To Support Up To 250,000 Meals For Children Across The Uk

Stuart Mitchell

Leading baby accessories brand Nuby has announced its partnership with FareShare, which will fund the distribution of up to 250,000 meals to children going hungry across the UK. Manufacturing products that cover all the moments that matter for parents – feeding, sleep, bathtime and playtime – Nuby seeks to create real world solutions at parent-friendly prices. That’s why, for every pack of Good Square Meal tableware sold, Nuby will support the redistribution of one meal for a child via FareShare. Across the UK, 3 million children are going hungry, as…

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Ceres Honors Climate Champions with BICEP Awards

Stuart Mitchell

In April, while dozens of business leaders gathered in Washington, D.C. to push for ambitious federal climate policy at LEAD on a Clean Economy 2024, Ceres also took time to reflect on the last year by honoring the business leaders, policymakers, and organizations that took extraordinary action in 2023 to build an advanced, abundant, and just clean energy economy.  We presented the 2024 BICEP Awards during an amazing week of advocacy focused on maximizing the nationwide surge in clean energy investment. The investment boom — as well as major 2023…

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