Pictured (L to R) launching the Greater Manchester MetalMatters Campaign in Altrincham are: Kate Ravenscroft (Communications Specialist, Novelis UK), Cllr. Nigel Murphy (Labour Member for Manchester), MetalMatters has teamed up with Recycle For Greater Manchester (R4GM) for its latest campaign to improve capture rates for metal packaging. As part of the latest campaign over 405,000 […]
Pictured (L to R) Iolo Williams, Ian Helme (Coppice Alupack), Garvin Freeman (Tata Steel) Launching the latest MetalMatters campaign in south Wales TV presenter Iolo Williams called on residents of Torfaen and Rhondda Cynon Taff (RCT) to ‘make their metals matter’ and recycle more of the metal packaging items they use at home every year. […]
Secretary of State for Environment, Owen Paterson •High profile backing for industry’s partnership programme from government minister •MetalMatters launches three new campaigns in Lewisham, Shropshire and Glasgow •Programme now reaches 2.3 million households The Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Rt. Hon Owen Paterson has offered his support to the MetalMatters recycling […]
The shortlist for the Environment & Energy Awards 2014 has been announced and we’re very excited to have been named as a finalist in the Sustainability Communications Campaign Award category. This is the awards 15th year recognising leaders in the environment and energy industry, specifically those who are making a difference and creating an impact […]
Secro’s recently published report on the impact of recycling incentive schemes is a welcome piece of work that makes a useful contribution to the ongoing debate around how local authorities can encourage behaviour change at a time of public sector austerity and shrinking budgets. It highlights the significant investment made into kerbside collection schemes and […]
Rick Hindley, Executive Director at Alupro MetalMatters has come a long way since the first campaign launched in 2010. That campaign was an industry ‘first’, bringing together the findings of detailed qualitative and quantitative research into waste arisings, and consumer attitudinal research, which had never previously been undertaken in relation to one material stream to […]
Branded vehicles used in Aberdeen for MetalMatters Latest figures from industry recycling programme, MetalMatters, show that it has successfully delivered sustained increases in the volumes of metal packaging collected at the kerbside long after the initial communications campaign intervention period. Analysis of recycling collections by two of the local authorities that ran campaigns during 2012 […]
Since the first pilot programme in 2010 MetalMatters has been working with local authorities and waste partnerships to help them run cost-effective communication campaigns encouraging householders to recycle more of their metal packaging, and helping to boost kerbside recycling collection rates. 28 local authorities were involved in campaigns in 2012 and now in its third […]
Nicola Bennett from Tata Steel representing the Metal Matters funding partners, Mayor Cliff Suller, Cllr Ken Critchley, Cabinet Member for Infrastructure and Lady Mayoress Christine Suller Newport City Council has become the first local authority in Wales to launch the MetalMatters recycling communications programme — a campaign supported by the industry partnership and Waste Awareness […]
(l to r) Neil Chapman, Business Development Manager, Ardagh Group; Nicola Bennett, Systems and Communications Manager, TATA Steel; Amy Blowes, Environmental Education Officer, Bedford Borough Council A major communications campaign has been launched in Bedford to encourage householders to recycle more of the estimated 1,400 tonnes of metal packaging used by local residents every year. […]