New UK association to help partner recycling and reprocessing sectors
A new member-based association launched in the UK to represent the recycling and reprocessing industries has set out to provide a more secure source of materials to help the country's manufacturing sector.
Launched in the Houses of Parliament, London, the Resource Association will be inviting new members from all businesses, local authorities, trade associations, agencies and NGOs. Founding members announced at the launch included waste management firm May Gurney, Coca-Cola Enterprises and the Somerset Waste Partnership.
It will be led by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) founding director Ray Georgeson as CEO, as well as Andy Doran, national recycling manager at Novelis Recycling, Eric Randall from Bryson Recycling and Chris White from Plastics Sorting.
Speaking to delegates, Georgeson said: "We need to make good use of quality recyclates for quality products here in the UK. If you take SMEs in the manufacturing sector, materials can cost more than 50% of overheads. There is a need for the recycling and reprocessing sectors to come together, which we have been backing for some time."
Novelis' Doran said: "We will actively work with the government to align policies where they are not joined up and advocate greater transparency in the supply chain. This includes the Transfrontier of Shipment of Waste Regulations and the Packaging Waste Regulations."
The Resource Association aims to cover the broad cycle of the industry, from engaging with local authorities to help deliver better recycling services, to addressing quality and recovery challenges of secondary materials in the reprocessing industry.
Addressing the potential of existing associations crossing over, the Resource Association said: "We believe there is a distinctive space for the Resource Association. In particular, we wish to work complementarily with existing material-specific trade associations and where needed provide a championing voice to unite shared agendas in the reprocessing and recycling sector.
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— A simple online calculator could offer family GPs a powerful new tool in tackling two of the most deadly forms of cancer, say researchers.
Academics from The University of Nottingham and ClinRisk Ltd have developed two new QCancer algorithms, which cross-reference symptoms and risk factors of patients to red flag those most likely to have pancreatic and bowel cancer, which could help doctors to diagnose these illnesses more quickly and potentially save thousands of lives every year.
Leading the research, Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox in the University’s Division of Primary Care, said: “We hope these new tools will help GPs with the difficult task of identifying patients with suspected cancer earlier and that this in turn could help improve treatment options and outcomes for patients.”
Pancreatic cancer, which affects more than 8,000 people in the UK every year, has the worst survival rate for any cancer — almost three-quarters of patients die within a year of diagnosis. Catching the disease in the early stages can offer a more optimistic prognosis for patients — however, with very few established risk factors and no reliable screening test available, it is also one of the toughest cancers for GPs to spot.
The research, published in the January edition of the British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), used patient data from 564 GPs practices to develop the algorithm and test its success at predicting which patients were likely to have pancreatic cancer, based on a combination of symptoms such as weight loss, appetite loss, and abdominal pain and risk factors such as age, chronic pancreatitis, smoking and diabetes.
It was successful in predicting 62 per cent of all pancreatic cancers diagnosed over the following two years which were in the top 10 per cent of patients predicted to be most at risk.
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