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ADEPT calls for urgent government action on fridge recycling capacity crisis

10 August 2026 - 12:00pm

Local authority place directors have written to Environment Minister Emma Hardy MP, calling for urgent government intervention to tackle an acute national shortage of fridge and freezer recycling capacity.The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT) has warned that increasing numbers of recycling centres across the country are running out of safe storage…

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