Recycling news: 2015

Council news Disabled Facilities Grants - Huntingdonshire.gov.uk Huntingdonshire Council · 17 Oct 2015 Council news Pest Control - Huntingdonshire.gov.uk Huntingdonshire Council · 17 Oct 2015 Council news Pre-Application Advice - Huntingdonshire.gov.uk Huntingdonshire Council · 17 Oct 2015 Council news Council Tax Support - Huntingdonshire.gov.uk Huntingdonshire Council · 17 Oct 2015 Council news Public Registers - Huntingdonshire.gov.uk Huntingdonshire Council · 17 Oct 2015 Council news Contact Us - Huntingdonshire.gov.uk Huntingdonshire Council · 17 Oct 2015 Council news Building Control and regulations - Horsham District Council Horsham Council · 17 Oct 2015 Industry news Affluent households ‘inconvenienced’ by garden waste charge Garden waste charges in affluent areas are ‘an inconvenience’ for residents rather than a financial concern, the waste commissioning lead for Buckinghamshire county council has suggested. Speaking to delegates at the LARAC conference in Nottingham yesterday, Kofi Adu-Gyamfi also advised councils could gradually raise garden waste subscription fees until residents threatened to pull out of … Rea… letsrecycle.com News · 16 Oct 2015 Global CNIM & MARTIN GmbH CNIM, together with the Irish Lagan Construction Group, is building two waste combustion lines for the British waste management company... ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology) · 16 Oct 2015 Industry news WRAP spearheading collection harmony review The first details surrounding work to harmonise recycling collections across the UK emerged at the LARAC conference in Nottingham this week. Speaking at the final session of the two-day event yesterday (October 15), Linda Crichton, head of resource management at WRAP, confirmed that the organisation is spearheading government-backed research into collection consistency. The Harmonisation and … … letsrecycle.com News · 16 Oct 2015 Industry news The Week in Waste – LARAC 2015 Take a look at the ‘Week in Waste’ video report, brought to you this week from the LARAC conference in Nottingham. In this week’s report by letsrecycle.com, sponsored by Biffa, we aim to give you a snapshot of the news in the world of recycling and waste management. We report from the East Midlands Conference … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Oct 2015 Industry news EU looks at food waste for animal feed More details of the direction of the European Commission’s new Circular Economy laws, due to be unveiled in December, have emerged with a Brussels paper suggesting more food waste should be used as animal feed. And, the internal Commission document confirms that new legislation will stagger recycling targets across Member States. Food waste is an … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Oct 2015 Council news Social Media - Huntingdonshire.gov.uk Huntingdonshire Council · 16 Oct 2015 Council news Northumberland County Council - Northumberland County Council Northumberland Council · 15 Oct 2015 Industry news Tesco partners with Eurokey for recycled bags Single use carrier bags distributed in Tesco stores across the UK are made from 100% recycled plastic material, under a partnership between the retailer and Hinckley-based Eurokey Recycling. The collaboration sees post-consumer plastic waste and ‘back of store’ plastic material collected from the retailer used to create the bags, which from October are distributed in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Oct 2015 Council news Huntingdonshire.gov.uk - Huntingdonshire.gov.uk Huntingdonshire Council · 15 Oct 2015 Industry news Councils still uncertain over TEEP Many councils are still unsure of the implications of regulations designed to encourage the separate collection of recyclable materials a recycling officer has claimed, with some having failed altogether to assess their compliance with the law. The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations, which came into effect for businesses and councils from January 1, stipulate that … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Oct 2015 Industry news Waste Management Introduction Managing waste is necessary to ensure that it does not pose a risk to health or the environment. In the past we mostly buried our waste in the ground but today the aim is to reduce the amount we send to landfill and to recover value from as much as possible. In 2010/11 [...] INCPEN (Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment) · 15 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | European Radiology - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 15 Oct 2015 Industry news SITA UK fined £200,000 after worker struck by vehicle Waste management company SITA UK – now been rebranded as SUEZ – has been fined £200,000 and forced to pay nearly £12,000 in costs after an employee was struck by moving a 7.5 tonne telehandler vehicle. In a prosecution brought by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), Preston Crown Court heard on Tuesday (October 13) … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Oct 2015 Council news Making Changes to Your Tenancy - Moray Council Moray Council · 15 Oct 2015 Industry news Bury and Falkirk outline residual waste reductions at LARAC Recycling officers from two of the first councils in the UK to reduce residual waste collection frequency to a three-weekly cycle have claimed that the change has not resulted in a significant spike in contamination of recyclables. Glenn Stuart, head of waste management at Bury council, which moved to three weekly collections in October 2014 … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Oct 2015 Industry news Circular Economy laws ‘to focus on extended producer responsibility’ While some things will not change, such as weight-based targets, plastics, producer responsibility and food waste are all likely to be touched on by the forthcoming Circular Economy package from Brussels, delegates to the LARAC conference heard yesterday (14 October). The prediction for what may be in the European Commission package, due out in December, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | Hydrobiologia - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 15 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 15 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | Ambio - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 15 Oct 2015 Policy & government Waste Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy. GOV.UK · 14 Oct 2015 Global Polish primary school and Finnish university win 2015 paper recycling awards Yesterday, the European Recovered Paper Council (ERPC) announced the winners of the fifth European Paper Recycling awards. The well-attended ceremony took place at the European Parliament and was hosted by MEP Eva Kaili who is also head of the Greek S&D delegation. The winner of the Technology Improvement and R&D category was Aalto University and […] CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 14 Oct 2015 Council news Planning Applications Online - View Printed Notice - Mid Devon District Council - planning.middevon.gov.uk Mid Devon Council · 14 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | Journal of Electronic Materials - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 14 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | Optical and Quantum Electronics - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 14 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | Biodiversity and Conservation - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 14 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | Journal of Religion and Health - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 14 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | Biological Trace Element Research - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 14 Oct 2015 Industry news Chemical pollution and microplastics: a present danger to marine life Highly persistent harmful chemicals are found in marine animals all over the world. These chemicals are having lasting impacts on the health of wildlife, as even if they are banned they stick around. In addition, there’s now a new problem that is concerning scientists: microplastics from cosmetics and other applications are polluting the environment, and […] CHEM Trust · 14 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | Social Indicators Research - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 14 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | European Spine Journal - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 14 Oct 2015 Research & science Home | Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment - Springer Nature Link Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) · 14 Oct 2015 Industry news ACP chair: Councils are seeing PRN money The PRN has become a dirty word for many local authorities, Phil Conran, chair of the Advisory Committee on Packaging conceded today. Speaking at the LARAC local authority recycling officers annual conference in Nottingham, Mr Conran said he accepted that “it is still away in the distance how we can turn the PRN into a … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 14 Oct 2015 Industry news LARAC told of future impact of technology The way the world handles waste and the waste produced in the manufacturing process will be transformed in coming years according to the keynote speaker at this week’s annual LARAC conference. Speaking to delegates at the local authority LARAC conference today (14 October) at Nottingham University, the keynote speaker Antonis Mavropoulos, pointed to the change … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 14 Oct 2015