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Icon News SUEZ commissioned report finds scope to mitigate potentially significant ETS costs

25 09 2025 - Europe

With less than three years to go until energy-from-waste becomes part of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), a SUEZ recycling and recovery UK commissioned report authored by consultancy Ceres Waste, Renewables & Environment lays bare the potential impact on local authority waste management budgets, and outlines how existing, proven technologies and services can be used to best effect to mitigate cost increases.

https://www.suez.co.uk/en-gb/news/press-releases/250925-suez-commissioned-report-finds-scope-to-mitigate-potentially-significant-ets-costs Read

Icon News From pallets to planters: Kids dig in at South Shields Cricket Club with upcycled planter project

22 09 2025

Children in South Tyneside have been getting creative and hands-on this summer thanks to a pallet planter workshop held at South Shields Cricket Club, supported by the Gateshead based Waste and Recycling Visitor Education Centre (W&RVEC).

https://www.suez.co.uk/en-gb/news/press-releases/250922-from-pallets-to-planters-kids-dig-in-at-south-shields-cricket-club-with-upcycled-planter-project Read

Icon News Students encouraged to become more sustainable this Recycle Week

22 09 2025

The University of Liverpool (UoL) together with long-time waste partner, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, set ambitious targets to reduce the general waste across the University campuses by half.

https://www.suez.co.uk/en-gb/news/press-releases/250922-students-encouraged-to-become-more-sustainable-this-recycle-week Read

Icon News Renew celebrates four years and millions of pounds transforming local waste into community good

08 09 2025 - Europe

Renew has donated £1.6 million directly to community groups and charities across Greater Manchester in the last four years.

With sales just hitting the £2 million mark, Renew is on track to continue its impactful work, earmarking the new funds for future rounds of the Community Fund and to support the Mayor's Charity.
Renew is a joint initiative between Recycle for Greater Manchester (R4GM) and SUEZ recycling and recovery UK and is the largest reuse and repair project of its kind in the country.

https://www.suez.co.uk/en-gb/news/press-releases/250908-renew-celebrates-four-years-and-millions-of-pounds-transforming-local-waste-into-community-good Read

Icon News Recycling roadmap for flexible plastics launches at Westminster

01 09 2025

A long-awaited solution to a major plastic recycling challenge is due to be revealed in Parliament today (01 September 2025) at an event sponsored by Amanda Hack MP and attended by Minister for Nature Mary Creagh.

https://www.suez.co.uk/en-gb/news/press-releases/250901-recycling-roadmap-for-flexible-plastics-launches-at-westminster Read

Icon News What it takes to clear 330 tonnes of Carnival waste: reflecting on the scale of Europe’s biggest post-event clean-up

29 08 2025 - Europe

One week on from Notting Hill Carnival 2025, the local streets remain fully restored thanks to the dedication of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s street cleaning and waste collection teams, led by SUEZ recycling and recovery UK.

https://www.suez.co.uk/en-gb/news/press-releases/250829-what-it-takes-to-clear-330-tonnes-of-carnival-waste-reflecting-on-the-scale-of-europes-biggest-post-event-clean-up Read

Icon News Cruden Bay Community Association’s new “men’s shed”

28 08 2025 - Europe

SUEZ recycling and recovery UK has lent its support to Cruden Bay Community Association with the donation of an unused portacabin which the group intend to transform into a ‘men’s shed’.

https://www.suez.co.uk/en-gb/news/press-releases/250828-cruden-bay-community-associations-new-mens-shed Read

Icon News A million reasons to recycle your food waste

14 08 2025 - Europe

Somerset Council has revealed that around a million pounds could be saved if residents recycled every scrap of food waste instead of binning it.

https://www.suez.co.uk/en-gb/news/press-releases/250814-a-million-reasons-to-recycle-your-food-waste Read

Icon News Grant open for applications to support ideas that reduce or reuse waste

13 08 2025 - Europe

Funding is available for innovative community projects in Somerset which are tackling waste.

https://www.suez.co.uk/en-gb/news/press-releases/250813-grant-open-for-applications-to-support-ideas-that-reduce-or-reuse-waste Read

Icon News Waste Not, Want Not - New Reuse Shop opens at Tees Valley recycling centre

08 08 2025 - Europe

A ribbon-cutting ceremony has marked the official opening of the brand-new Teesside Reuse Shop at the Tees Valley household waste recycling centre (HWRC) in Haverton Hill, giving residents across Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough the chance to buy quality preloved items at affordable prices while also helping the environment.

https://www.suez.co.uk/en-gb/news/press-releases/250808-waste-not-want-not-new-reuse-shop-opens-at-tees-valley-recycling-centre Read

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