Recycling and your business

The recent UK Government waste management strategy announcement indicates that the policy reduce, reuse, recyle, more commonly known as recycling, will play a far greater role in the mangement of waste than ever before and its applications will be of special interest to companies throughout the country.

At present the recycling industry employs approximately 1.5 million people employed in more than 50 countries, generating an annual turnover in excess of 160 billion dollars, whilst processing over 600 million tonnes of waste.

This title - within the new "And Your Business Series" of Stationery Office publications - explains the practical issues around recycling, looking at many of the materials that can be recycled, how best to achieve this and how to earn rebates from such action together with a look at the latest "hot topic", the proposed directive on the recycling of electrical goods including computers.