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MyRecorra – Your Online Hub for Everything Recorra

Recorra’s all new portal - for all your recycling data, resources and service insights.

Carbon Catch-up: Energy from Waste (EfW) and carbon accounting

Our Net Zero Strategist shares her insights from July

Carbon Catch-up: Carbon Reporting and The Future of Transport

Catch-up with our Net Zero Strategist, Kirsten Zoe Smith

How Your Business Can Be a Part of the Solution to Plastic Pollution

How Recorra can help your business manage your plastic waste

The Carbon Catch-up with Kirsten Zoe Smith

Our Net Zero Strategist shares insights into Recorra's journey to net zero.

Simpler Recycling: What do I need to know for my business?

What are the changes to waste legislation 2024? What are the new regulations for recycling? Do you legally have to recycle in the UK? What is the UK policy on waste? What is the UK legislation for food waste?

How big a problem is food waste?

Recorra breaks down the issue of food waste for your business.

Are flexible plastics recyclable? Recorra answers your questions about plastic recycling

Why are flexible plastics hard to recycle? Are plastic bags flexible plastic? Which plastic cannot be recycled? Is flexible plastic packaging recyclable?

Recorra’s International Women’s Day 2024

Women in Waste: Recorra celebrate International Women’s Day 2024

Why is sustainability reporting essential for green business models?

Sustainability reporting is critical to measuring sustainability performance, sharing sustainability impacts and understanding how sustainability can create value for stakeholders.

Recorra’s tips for a more sustainable Valentine’s Day

How to reduce your carbon footprint on the most romantic day of the year.

Tackling Climate Change: The Transformative Power of Effective Waste Management

Waste management plays a critical role in climate change mitigation. Governments must look beyond landfill and energy from waste solutions to the waste companies pushing for a more sustainable future.

From Waste to Plate: Recorra and Plan Zheroes tackle food waste across London

Recorra’s new charity partnership with Plan Zheroes is helping to reduce food poverty and food waste across London, with each food waste collection from Recorra customers.

Empowering Occupiers: The Next Phase of Recorra’s Waste Reporting Portal Upgrades

Recorra's new portal empowers occupiers to manage their waste more effectively.

Emission Trading and the Burning Question of Waste Management

In the fifth instalment of our blog post series, we will break down UK emissions trading post-Brexit, and what that will mean for businesses.

From Chaos to Clarity: The UK's Legislative Drive for Simplified Recycling

In the next blog post in our series on UK legislation changes, we will break down the government’s new ‘Simpler Recycling’ initiative, where Prime Minister Rishi Sunak infamously scrapped the ‘seven bins’ system for a more streamlined recycling process.

Trash in, Cash Out: Improving Recycling Through Deposit Return Schemes

The UK waste sector is undergoing substantive reform over the next few years. This introduces the introduction of a scheme aimed at reducing litter and raising recycling rates. In the third of our blog post series on upcoming legislative changes, we explore Deposit Return Schemes (DRS) and what this means for the waste industry and for Recorra customers.

Weighing In on Waste: How SmartWeigh is Changing the Waste Management Game

An app-based weighing solution to measure building occupier waste & recycling output, with exclusive patent-pending technology, developed to save time and money.

Shifting the Burden: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) holds producers responsible

In the second of our series of legislative change blogs, we explore the topic of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR for short) and what this will mean for your business. So, let’s dive in……