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U.K. beats goal in EPS recycling

Over 5,500 tons of expanded polystyrene (EPS) was recycled in the U.K. in 2009, according to the EPS Group of the British Plastics Federation. That volume accounts for 33 percent of the total EPS manufactured in the United Kingdom last year, and easily beats the government’s recycling target of 25.5 percent by 2010. The numbers are more impressive, considering many local authorities in the U.K. do not recycle EPS. The material is instead collected and processed through separate household and business recycling schemes.

Cited by Plastic Recycling Update