The volume of carpet waste diverted from landfill in the UK has shown a modest increase with 175,252 tonnes reused, recycled or recovered for energy in 2018, according to Carpet Recycling UK.

This represents a diversion rate of 44% - up from 42% and an increase of 7,252...

Recofloor, a champion for sustainability in the flooring sector, will be celebrating 10 years of recycling waste vinyl flooring in 2019. 

Since its 2009 inception by flooring manufacturers Altro and Polyflor, the UK’s award-winning Take Back scheme has recycled an impre...

It’s all change at the European Resilient Flooring Manufacturers’ Institute (ERFMI) with the announcement of several new senior management appointments, including Jane Gardner as its Managing Director.

ERFMI represents the interests of the resilient flooring sector in E...

Carpet Recycling UK’s significant achievements in finding new uses for waste carpet have been recognised with an Innovation Gold Award for Landfill Diversion in the Environmental Category of the National Flooring Innovations Awards 2018.

Supported by The Stocklists maga...

Price increases for the main ferrous grades helped to push up turnover and profits by a third for S Norton & Co Ltd, one of the UK’s prominent metal recyclers, according to its latest published accounts for 2017.

Annual turnover increased to £272 million for the year to...

Axion Polymers has invested in more laboratory test equipment at its Salford-based plastics recycling facility, including a new injection moulder, that will enable a greater range of polymer testing and further development of recycled polymer grades.

Axion’s in-house te...

Hardware specialist Winkhaus has introduced two new products – the autoLock AV3 Heritage Plus and Heritage Duo Pull – both designed to complement each other and suit a wide range of contemporary and period door styles.

Based on the popular AV3 range of multi-point locks...

Axion Polymers hosted a fact-finding visit to its two Manchester recycling facilities by the Lead MEP and appointed Rapporteur for drawing up regulations on persistent organic pollutants (POPs). 

Julie Girling, MEP for South West England and Gibraltar, viewed the comple...

Jane Gardner, Head of Axion’s Consulting Services, will be leaving the Manchester-based resource recovery specialists at the end of August 2018 to take up a new senior pan-European role.

One of Axion’s earliest employees, Jane is moving to her next career challenge as M...

A record 17 companies in Australia’s PVC supply chain have achieved PVC Stewardship Excellence this year for meeting full compliance with key environmental objectives relevant to their business related to the production and supply of vinyl products.

Overseen by the Viny...