Schijvens pilot – creating new work wear from old

During the first pilot, corporate clothing specialist Schijvens developed a yarn that consists of 50 percent recycled textile – comprising 30 percent post-consumer textile and 20 percent textile waste – 50 percent recycled polyester from PET bottles....

Tipping Point

Antisocial, illegal, environmentally damaging and an unnecessary drain on stretched local authority resources, fly-tipping continues to be a significant waste issue for the UK. According to figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra),...
Poppy Recycling

Poppy Recycling

Now that Remembrance period is over, don’t throw your poppy away – you can recycle it at Sainsbury’s any time until November 29. For the seventh year running, Sainsbury’s will be providing a recycling service for paper poppies in their stores. All collected poppies...
Recycling in Charities

Recycling in Charities

The British Heart Foundation re-uses and recycles 72,000 tonnes a year and extracts from nearly all of that. They are particularly keen on capturing usable furniture, and they continue to open, on average, a new store every fortnight to sell that on. They are...