RECYCLING IN UK

Recycling in UK

Recycling in UK

Introduction

In the United Kingdom are used each year about 250,000 tonnes of plastic bottles, more and more popular as they are very light: a ton is around 20,000 bottles, durable and inexpensive. Attention is also focused on materials that are manufactured with diapers but the idea is that in the future are processed products such as bike frames, or the plastic templates or shoes. This factory will start operating at full capacity in 2011 while in 2014 four floors are expected in Manchester, Liverpool and London. To carry out this project will recycle diapers specific collection points such as shopping centres and kindergartens but later the company expects that in future local councils enable special containers for recycling (Hulse, 2000, 102)

Since 1989, the packaging industry and local authorities have been developing recycling programs for plastic bottles recoupable, the British company recycling plastic bottles nationwide. One in three UK local governments develop programs for collecting plastic bottles, a figure that represents more than 178 municipalities committed to the recycling of plastic bottles. At the beginning of 1998, there were more than 3,000 containers of plastic bottles and 1.9 million households with special containers for the collection of recyclable products, among which include plastic bottles, in fact these programs is growing rapidly.

After a lengthy public consultation launched in February 2006, Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) published May 24, 2007, the new strategy waste management applicable to England. The United Kingdom is one of the biggest European producers of waste with about 100 million tons from residential, commercial and industrial. Most of this waste is still directed to landfills. The government proposes a set of guidelines and measures to reduce waste by changing the method of packaging products or the promotion of recycling and reuse. The British strategy (Waste Strategy for England 2007) is based on a hierarchy imposed in the possibilities of waste management, the Waste Hierarchy or "waste hierarchy" (this concept stems from the EU strategy for waste), with the primary objective of limiting to minimize the use of landfills. The application of this concept should have repercussions not only on the quality of the environment but also on the British economy with a massive reduction in costs of waste treatment and burial. In addition, a policy of waste prevention should lead to more rational and economical use of resources (Ganesan, 2006, 327).

1. The general objectives of government

2.1. Incentives to improve waste management

2.2. Regulatory reform to promote the reduction of waste generation

2.3. Concrete actions and voluntary agreements with industry

2.4. Encouraging investment into the infrastructure for recycling and waste treatment

2.5. Greater local governance

2.6. Behaviour change

Discussion

Recycling today has become an integral part of everyday life with almost all households in the UK are obliged to separate paper, plastic and glass from each other. Nevertheless, one class of debris which for many years is been neglected is the ...