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bpi.recycled products helps eco-conscious youngsters

A global gathering of some 6,000 scouts and girls guides has received a massive product donation from one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of refuse sacks.

bpi.recycled products - which operates from sites across the UK including a factory in Heanor, Derbyshire - has supplied 18,000 Green Sacks® completely free of charge for use at this year’s PEAK 2010 camp which runs for a week in late July at Chatsworth House,...
 

BPI’S ‘CORE’ STRATEGY PAYS OFF

Leading UK printer/converter bpi.consumer VMB recently extended its highly successful core re-use initiative to include a major customer, Greenvale AP, the UK’s leading supplier of fresh potatoes. Having successfully concluded a long term trial in-house as part of a strategy to reduce waste to landfill, the company approached Greenvale AP to share the substantial benefits of a 102 tonne reduction in cardboard waste...
 

bpi.recycled products reveals RWM plans

As the 2010 RWM exhibition rapidly approaches, bpi.recycled products has revealed its plans for the annual show for the recycling and waste management sector.

At the event, which runs from the 14th to the 16th September at the NEC, the business will be promoting the impressive capabilities, knowledge and reassurance it can offer as Europe’s largest polythene waste recycler with a history in recycling extending...
 

BPI MAINTAINS PERFECT RECORD ON FTSE CSR INDEX

British Polythene Industries (BPI) plc has received recognition for the strength of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies for a ninth consecutive year.

The business, which ranks as Europe’s largest manufacturer of polythene films, bags and sacks, has once again been awarded a Certificate of Inclusion for the prestigious FTSE4Good Index.

BPI has achieved a listing every year since the index was...
 

GLASTONBURY GETS ON-BOARD WITH PLASWOOD

Aside from some of the biggest and best names in global music, this year's Glastonbury is set to play host to an unusual example of just how effective modern plastic recycling can be.

Located in the Green Kids Field, the Cadmus is a giant 40 foot long, 40 foot tall and 20 foot wide play ship constructed not out of wood but from an innovative recycled plastic alternative to wood known as Plaswood.

Plaswood is...
 

GROWERS TO DISCOVER GREEN ADVANCES AT FRUIT FOCUS 2010

Fruit Focus has always been the ideal event for growers looking to discover new innovations and initiatives able to make their businesses more productive and more profitable. This year however, those looking to make green advances will also be catered for thanks to the appearance of bpi.recycled products.

This organisation, which ranks as Europe’s largest recycler of waste polythene, will be appearing alongside its...
 

ISO14001 FOR BPI.RECYCLED PRODUCTS

The green commitment of a leading supplier to the cleaning, facilities management, healthcare and local authority sectors has been recognised with ISO14001:2004 accreditation. bpi.recycled products, which manufactures refuse, recycling, clinical waste and other similar sacks, received the certification for operations at its Stroud, Gloucestershire facility.

Often seen as the cornerstone of the ISO14000 series of...
 

LAMMA 2010 SEES BPI.RECYCLED PRODUCTS APPEARANCE

Europe’s largest polythene recycler, bpi.recycled products, has revealed it will be exhibiting at the 2010 LAMMA (Lincolnshire Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers’ Association) exhibition. The business plans to attend the event, which is widely seen as the UK’s leading farm machinery show, as part of its on-going commitment to helping UK agriculture to dispose of its waste plastics in a greener, more efficient...
 

Putting ‘has bins’ back to work

If you fancy doing something out of the ordinary for the environment Visqueen Building Products could have the ideal solution.

The eco-focused business, which offers a number of greener solutions to the building, maintenance and related sectors, has begun employing an unusual type of ‘raw material’ to create its range of 100% recycled plastic building films. Old and unwanted wheelie bins.

Specific products now...
 

New website puts green refuse sack buyers in the picture.

If you think all refuse sacks are created equal a new website from bpi.recycled products could soon make you think again.

The business, which ranks as the largest reprocessor of waste polythene in Europe, has just launched www.thegreensack.co.uk - a new site dedicated entirely to its Green Sack® range of refuse sacks which it believes to be the greenest currently available.

Introduced approximately a year ago,...