100 years of waste management

3 May 2002

Materials Recycling Week, as the magazine is now called, reports that the PRN system in its current form would fail to meet the 2006 Packaging Directive targets. Meanwhile, the Environment Agency released a new guidance note on recovering ozone-depleting substances from waste fridges, and an Australian company developed a new alterative to plastic packaging made from corn starch and synthetic degradable polymers.