The United Kingdom’s Environment Minister Elliot Morley has given his backing to 10 new British projects that will see groundbreaking technology developed to boost recycling, improve the quality of our rivers and restore contaminated former industrial land.
The agency is allocating around 36 million pounds to help develop technology and approaches to boosting recycling and environmental goals in England.
The following British projects have been given the go-ahead by the European Commission and will be part-funded by the EU. Of the ten projects highlighted, three directly cover a boost in recycling levels. The three include a project in Cwmbran, South Wales, which will demonstrate how new technology can increase the proportion and variety of waste glass used for the manufacture of glass fiber insulation products; in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk a project will develop new technology to deal with the increase in waste tires by converting them into their component materials; and in Sheffield, a company will build a plant to demonstrate a new method for recovering materials from clinical waste - and preparing them for recycling into new products.
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