THE British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA), the trade association representing the £7 billion UK Metal Recycling sector, has launched a Zero Carbon Committee highlighting the need to seek economic alternatives for metal recyclers to switch to net zero in line with the UK Government goal of 2050. Following the environmental concerns raised at COP26, and...
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CIWM still ‘hopeful’ after COP26 despite disappointments
THE Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has stated that there is still reason be hopeful that the Paris 2015 target can still be met despite what many will see as the last minute ‘watering down’ of the ‘Glasgow Climate pact’. The organisation has also reiterated its call for waste and resources to be pushed...
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Lack of waste on COP26 agenda ‘critical oversight’, says CIWM President
THE President of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM), Dr Adam Read, has called for global leaders to recognise the crucial role that recycling and resource management has to play in supporting decarbonisation, branding the lack of ‘resources and waste’ representation in the COP26 programme a ‘critical oversight’. Beginning this week in Glasgow (31...