CO2 impacts of transporting recovered paper & plastic bottles to China

In 2007, 4.7 million tonnes of recovered paper and 0.5 million tonnes of recovered plastics were exported for recycling overseas . The principal destination for these exports was China. But are the benefits of recycling are outweighed by the emissions associated with transporting the material to China? This report for WRAP quantifies the carbon dioxide emissions associated with transporting recovered paper and plastic bottles from the UK to China.

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Simon Strick
Mapping Waste in the Food Industry

This report was commissioned by the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and Defra to assess the amount of food and packaging waste arising across FDF's membership, the geographic spread of this waste and how it is being managed against the waste hierarchy.

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Simon Strick
Material Security - Ensuring resource availability for the UK economy

Material security concerns the access to raw materials to ensure military and economic sufficiency. Recently, its importance has increased due to limited short term availability of some raw materials, widespread increases in raw material prices, oligopolistic industry structures and dependence on a limited number of sometimes politically unstable countries as sources of key materials. Materials are most insecure when lack of substitutability in critical applications is combined with the above factors.

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Simon Strick