Recycling news: 2017

Policy & government Five reflections on Dieter Helm’s Cost of Energy Review At over 200 pages, Professor Dieter Helm’s review of the cost of energy to UK businesses and households is wide-ranging. It covers many issues that fall firmly within our remit (such as the costs of decarbonising the UK’s electricity supply) and others that don’t (such as electricity network regulation and energy retail tariffs). Climate Change Committee · 31 Oct 2017 Industry news Paper firms positive over market outlook DS Smith Plc, the largest UK producer of cardboard, today (31 October) issued a trading update which confirmed that prices for new cardboard have risen meaning that the company has managed to pass on increases in the price of waste or ‘recovered’ paper. And, also today, Europe’s largest forest owner SCA, which produces paper grades … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 31 Oct 2017 Industry news Savanna Rags fined £650,000 after death of worker Textile recycler Savanna Rags International has been prosecuted after an 76-year-old worker was fatally injured, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced yesterday (30 October). The HSE said that the Magistrates’ Court in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, heard yesterday how the female employee sustained fatal injuries on 26 April 2016 after a delivery vehicle driven by a … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 31 Oct 2017 Industry news NPL acquires 100% of Avondale Holdings Whitehead Restoration Limited of Wigan – part of the wider NPL Group – has acquired a 100% shareholding in Avondale Holdings. As part of the acquisition, the company takes over Avondale’s integrated waste management facility, sited in Polmont, Falkirk. The NPL Group is a commercial property developer. Group businesses include Bradley Park Waste Management, Thornton Facility … Read More The post… letsrecycle.com News · 31 Oct 2017 Industry news Supermarket Chain Tops Packaging Offenders List The post Supermarket Chain Tops Packaging Offenders List appeared first on Clarity . Clarity Environmental · 31 Oct 2017 Research & science photonic textiles for newborns - 604 - Communication - Empa Empa News · 31 Oct 2017 Policy & government Business Case Template - Local Government Association Local Government Association · 31 Oct 2017 Industry news Zero Waste Scotland invites proposals for flat glass Zero Waste Scotland is inviting grant applications for sums ranging from £50,000 to £1,000,000, to contribute to its overall vision of developing a flat glass recovery network for Scotland. This will include both the collection and closed loop recycling of flat glass, predominantly from the construction and demolition sectors as part of the wider £18million … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 30 Oct 2017 Industry news Veolia could face paying Lambeth staff living wage Inner London borough, Lambeth, has announced that it intends to start negotiations with contractor Veolia to pay the London Living Wage rate to staff working on its environmental services contract with the borough. Lambeth council announced its intention to start the talks with Veolia in its Forward Plan earlier this month. In the plan, Lambeth … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 30 Oct 2017 Policy & government Transformation of former nuclear site into college campus and business park The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority provided land, buildings and equipment to create a college, University Technical College and business park in Gloucestershire. GOV.UK · 30 Oct 2017 Industry news NW Leicestershire awarded contract by county North West Leicestershire district council has announced that it has won the contract to retain and sell the recyclables collected via its in-house kerbside sort collection service. The seven year contract was awarded last month by Leicestershire county council (LCC), the statutory waste disposal authority, following a competitive tender. It will deliver a potential £500,000 … Read More The pos… letsrecycle.com News · 30 Oct 2017 Industry news ‘Beautiful China’: Beijing starts the biggest shutdown of steel factories in history The post ‘Beautiful China’: Beijing starts the biggest shutdown of steel factories in history appeared first on Unearthed . Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 30 Oct 2017 Council news Tourism - Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Staffordshire Moorlands Council · 29 Oct 2017 Council news Electoral Registration Home Page - Link - Dundee City Council Dundee City Council · 27 Oct 2017 Industry news Powerday at London Build Expo 2017 It was a busy couple of days at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in October, with the venue playing host to the London Build Expo 2017. This year, a team from Powerday took residence among industry peers... Powerday · 27 Oct 2017 Industry news Charity and news round-up (27/10/2017) With news on: Mid UK supports breast cancer awareness; Recycling toolkit launched; Warwickshire searches for Recycling Champion; and, Spedian helps Dorset Waste Partnership. Mid UK supports breast cancer awareness Grantham-based Mid UK Recycling is supporting breast cancer awareness month this October, by wrapping bales of solid recovered fuel (SRF) in pink bale wrap instead of … Read More The … letsrecycle.com News · 27 Oct 2017 Industry news ‘An atmosphere of hate infects society’: reporting on the environment in Putin’s Russia The post ‘An atmosphere of hate infects society’: reporting on the environment in Putin’s Russia appeared first on Unearthed . Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 27 Oct 2017 Industry news Northern Ireland reports 50% quarterly recycling rate Northern Ireland has achieved a municipal recycling and composting rate of 50% for the first time in an individual quarter, according to the latest waste figures published this week. The statistics are the first to be published by the Department of Agriculture and Environment (DAERA) since new regulations on separate collection of food waste were … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 27 Oct 2017 Policy & government Views sought on reward and return schemes for drinks containers Environment Secretary Michael Gove has launched a call for evidence on how the littering of plastic, metal and glass drinks containers could be reduced GOV.UK · 27 Oct 2017 Industry news WEEE fee proposal aims to ‘boost’ CA site collection Proposals submitted for the 2017 WEEE compliance fee methodology will address local authority concerns over direct collections of electrical waste from civic amenity sites, an industry body has claimed. The Joint Trade Association – a grouping of nine Trade Associations in the electronics sector – has submitted a proposal for setting the compliance fee methodology, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 27 Oct 2017 Policy & government CH81013 - Penalties for Inaccuracies: In what circumstances is a penalty payable: Commencement date - Part 2 GOV.UK · 27 Oct 2017 Industry news Wilton International Mura Technology are pleased to announce that their first commercial partner, ReNew ELP, have acquired land and planning permissions at the Wilton International site at Teesside, North... Mura Technology news · 26 Oct 2017 Industry news Appointments round up (26/10/17) With news on: Whitehouse joins Dudley council; Plastic Omnium Urban Systems appoints new sales manager; Ellgia welcomes marketing specialist. Whitehouse joins Dudley council David Whitehouse is set to become the first waste disposal and contracts manager at Dudley borough council after nine years at Warwickshire county council. Mr Whitehouse joined Warwickshire’s waste management team in 2008, … letsrecycle.com News · 26 Oct 2017 Policy & government Mr L Clayton v Environmental Technologies Recycling Ltd: 3322836/2016 Employment Tribunal decision. GOV.UK · 26 Oct 2017 Industry news Local authority waste management trends and the uncertainty principle Dr Adam Read is external affairs director at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. Here he reflects on local authority issues and the recent LARAC recycling officers conference in Nottingham. ‘We live in interesting times’, a phrase often used by Terry Pratchett in his disc world novels and certainly a phrase that has summed up … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 Oct 2017 Industry news LARAC chief exec concerned over deposits impact LARAC chief executive Lee Marshall has said there is insufficient evidence to show that a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles would not have a negative effect on local authorities. Deposit return schemes (DRS) see consumers pay a deposit which is refundable once the empty bottle or container is returned. “In most European countries the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 Oct 2017 Industry news We’re CIWM Awards finalists! MetalMatters has been announced as a finalist in the 2017 CIWM Awards ‘Most Effective Communications’ category. These long-standing and well-respected awards are given for outstanding achievement in the sustainability, resource and waste industry. Judged by the most respected experts in the sector, the awards represent the highest level of achievement and are entered and sponsored […] Alupro · 26 Oct 2017 Industry news Bumper Batteries Harvest from South Wales Schools Der Beitrag Bumper Batteries Harvest from South Wales Schools erschien zuerst auf United Kingdom (EN) . ERP UK (European Recycling Platform) · 26 Oct 2017 Industry news Ash adds 5.5% to Welsh recycling rate EXCLUSIVE: The Welsh Government has reported a recycling rate of 63.8% across Wales for 2016/17, with 5.5% coming from incinerator bottom ash (IBA) recycling. Annual figures published last week (19 October), show the average combined reuse, recycling and composting rate across Wales’ 22 local authorities in 2016/17 was 63.8% out of 1.58 million tonnes of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 Oct 2017 Policy & government Northern Ireland local authority collected municipal waste management statistics report: April to June 2017 This is a quarterly publication which reports provisional figures on the key measurements of local authority collected municipal waste for councils and waste management groups in Northern Ireland. GOV.UK · 26 Oct 2017 Policy & government Issue briefing: calculating the 2015 to 2016 tax gap This briefing explains why we calculate the tax gap each year and how it influences the way we work to collect taxes. GOV.UK · 26 Oct 2017 Council news Contact Details - Dundee City Council Dundee City Council · 26 Oct 2017 Council news What a My Kirklees Account is - Kirklees Council Kirklees Council · 25 Oct 2017 Council news Haringey and Islington Health and Wellbeing Boards Joint Sub-Committee - Islington Council Islington Council · 25 Oct 2017 Global Concrete policy asks for the revision of the EU Bioeconomy Strategy Launched and adopted in 2012, Europe's Bioeconomy Strategy addresses the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into vital products and bio-energy. The strategy is needed to ensure that fossil resources are replaced with sustainable natural alternatives as part of the transition to a low-carbon circular economy. Its main purpose is to streamline [...] European Bioplastics News · 25 Oct 2017 Global Final speaker line-up of the European Bioplastics Conference 2017 Every year, the European Bioplastics Conference features a well-rounded conference programme attracting senior executives from across the bioplastics value chain, policy bodies, NGOs, and brand owners. We are happy to announce the final speaker line-up of this year’s conference, taking place on 28-29 November 2017 in Berlin, Germany. François de Bie, Chairman of [...] European Bioplastics News · 25 Oct 2017 Global Five-year EU flagship project to establish an innovative supply chain for FDCA and PEF Test bottles made from PET © Synvina PEFerence, a €25 million EU project, was officially launched at the end of September 2017. The partners will be cooperating for the next five years to establish an innovative value chain for FDCA (2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid) and PEF (Polyethylene furanoate), including the intended construction of a 50,000 tons [...] European Bioplastics News · 25 Oct 2017 Global News in brief – October 2017 IKEA’s first large-scale bioplastic product: The popular re-sealable sandwich bag ISTAD is the first large-scale bioplastic product from IKEA. The bags are made from bio-based plastics derived from sugarcane where everything is either used or reused, so there is no waste in the production. IKEA estimates to sell 1.4 billion ISTAD bags this year, which [...] European Bioplastics News · 25 Oct 2017 Council news Instrumental Music Service - Dundee City Council Dundee City Council · 25 Oct 2017 Industry news London’s West End looks to consolidate waste collections EXCLUSIVE: Westminster city council and Paper Round have been confirmed as two preferred suppliers to look after commercial waste collections in part of the West End of London. Westminster council’s part in the project will be delivered by Veolia as part of an existing seven-year waste collections contract. This follows an earlier stage of the West End … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 25 Oct 2017