A new partnership between The Royal Mint and Recycling Lives Services is recovering gold and other precious metals from electronic waste (e-waste) in the UK. This initiative also helps rehabilitate prisoners through supervised work programmes.As businesses focus on keeping valuable materials in circulation instead of sending them to landfill, this collaboration in South Wales is one to watch. The Royal Mint is working with Recycling Lives Services to retrieve precious metals from e-waste and provide job training for prisoners.Through its precious metals recovery business, Reformation Metals, The Royal Mint now collects circuit boards from old televisions at civic amenity sites...
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New partnership connects e-waste recovery with prisoner rehabilitation
A new partnership between The Royal Mint and Recycling Lives Services is recovering gold and other precious metals from electronic waste (e-waste) in the UK. This initiative also helps rehabilitate prisoners through supervised work programmes.As businesses focus on keeping valuable materials in circulation instead of sending them to landfill, this collaboration in South Wales is one to watch. The Royal Mint is working with Recycling Lives Services to retrieve precious metals from e-waste and provide job training for prisoners.Through its precious metals recovery business, Reformation Metals, The Royal Mint now collects circuit boards from old televisions at civic amenity sites...
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New partnership connects e-waste recovery with prisoner rehabilitation
A new partnership between The Royal Mint and Recycling Lives Services is recovering gold and other precious metals from electronic waste (e-waste) in the UK. This initiative also helps rehabilitate prisoners through supervised work programmes. As businesses focus on keeping valuable materials in circulation instead of sending them to landfill, this collaboration in South Wales is one to watch. The Royal Mint is working with Recycling Lives Services to retrieve precious metals from e-waste and provide job training for prisoners. Through its precious metals recovery business, Reformation Metals, The Royal Mint now collects circuit boards from old televisions at civic...
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By Michael Plant, Supply Chain Director of HAHN Plastics UK The past few months have brought significant change to household waste collection, with ‘Simpler Recycling’ reforms bringing greater consistency to what is collected and how it is handled. But while attention has focused on harmonising collections, a more complex shift is fast approaching – kerbside collections for film plastics. From March 2027, all local authorities will be required to collect flexible plastic packaging from households under the Flex Collect scheme. This means items such as plastic bags, crisp packets and food wrapping will enter the recycling stream at scale for...