The British government has announced a fund worth 4.7 million pounds (approximately 5.95 million US dollars) to help promote the recycling and reuse of plastic packaging and textiles, and is seeking innovative ideas from the outside.
Multi-million pound scheme offering grants from £200,000 to £1 million to promote increased end-of-life recycling of textiles s project. We are also looking for solutions for hard-to-recycle plastic packaging, such as plastic trays, jars, plastic films and small bags.
For textiles, this may include machinery to recycle textiles, technology to dismantle or sort textiles, automated processes to remove off-materials from textiles (such as zippers), and techniques for classifying textiles according to fiber type and color.
300,000 tonnes of clothing was buried or incinerated in the UK in 2015 – the government says textiles are an important area requiring priority action as producers are asked to take on greater responsibility Responsibility, making its products easier to reuse and recycle.
We are committed to reducing, reusing, recycling and reducing waste further and faster, said Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey. The generation of valuable waste in landfills makes no environmental or economic sense. We are making progress but there is more to do and I encourage organizations to apply for our multi-million pound grants to drive the recycling of these valuable materials.
The government has announced wider plastic restrictions, including increasing charges on plastic bags and banning plastic straws, drink stirrers and plastic cotton buds from April 2020 use, and the use of ultrafine beads is prohibited.
Earlier this year, there was a consultation on a “Plastic Packaging Tax” that would apply from April 2022 on plastics with less than 30% recycled content A tax on packaging to reduce the use of virgin plastic and encourage more sustainable packaging.
The grant will be administered by the Waste and Resources Action Program (WRAP), which noted the signing of the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan (SCAP) between 2012-2017 The following results have been achieved: clothing discards have been reduced by 14%, carbon emissions per ton of clothing have been reduced by more than 11%, and water consumption has been reduced by more than 17%.
The European Clothing Action Plan (EuropeanClothingActionPlan), led by WRAP, aims to divert more than 90,000 tons of clothing waste from landfills and waste across Europe by December 2019. Incinerated waste areas are diverted to other uses.
