Recycling news: 2015

Industry news Less landfill disposal as Grundon and Viridor sign a long-term treatment contract The post Less landfill disposal as Grundon and Viridor sign a long-term treatment contract appeared first on Grundon . Grundon Waste Management · 5 Aug 2015 Industry news LARAC calls for clarity on street sweepings Council recycling officers have called for the Environment Agency to end confusion over the recycling of street leaf sweepings – as more local authorities seek to find ways of prevent the material from going to landfill. Andrew Bird, chair of the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC), argued that the Agency should re-issue its guidance, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 5 Aug 2015 Industry news Nathan’s takes Masters of Waste Scotland crown A four-man team from Falkirk-based textile recycler Nathan’s Wastesavers scooped the first ever Masters of Waste Scotland crown on a glorious day at Archerfield Links, North Berwick last Thursday (July 30). Around 40 golfers took part in the one day-tournament at the prestigious course just outside of Edinburgh, organised by letsrecycle.com in partnership with equipment … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 5 Aug 2015 Industry news Wychavon clamps down on recycling contamination Spot checks are being carried out on recycling bins in Wychavon following a spike in contamination levels. The Worcestershire council has claimed householders are incorrectly placing textiles, nappies and food waste in their green wheeled bins, which are collected fortnightly and designated for mixed dry recyclables. In one recent incident in Wychavon, three tonnes of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 5 Aug 2015 Industry news Bury sees recycling boost after three-weekly switch A switch to three-weekly residual waste collections has seen household waste recycling rates jump by 10%, Bury council in Greater Manchester has claimed. The local authority was the first in England to reduce its residual waste collection frequency beyond a fortnightly service in October 2014. Under the new service, grey residual waste bins were switched … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 5 Aug 2015 Industry news News in brief (04/08/2015) With news on; Man in court over Pendle Skips death; Huddersfield ReFood scholarship; Taylor unveils fireproof bin lid; Suez undergoes second name change, and; FoodCycle becomes Veolia charity partner Man in court over Pendle Skips death A man has appeared in court following the discovery of a body at Pendle Skips in Burnley, Lancashire. Stephen … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Aug 2015 Industry news Averies Recycling directors deny waste offences Two former directors of Wiltshire waste company Averies Recycling pleaded not guilty to waste offences yesterday (August 3) at Swindon Magistrates Court. David Averies and his brother Lee – who succeeded David as director of the Swindon-based firm in October 2014 – both deny charges brought by the Environment Agency over breaches of the Environmental … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Aug 2015 Industry news North London to continue ‘exporting’ waste A draft version of the strategy for handling North London’s waste for the next 15 years has been published – which identifies the need to increase recycling and waste treatment capacity in the region. The seven North London boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest are working together to prepare the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Aug 2015 Industry news POWERDAY TRANSPORT MANAGER GAINS CILT CHARTERED STATUS Powerday’s Transport Manager Bill Cox has been awarded Chartered Member status of the internationally recognised Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). Membership of the Institute is... Powerday · 3 Aug 2015 Industry news Recycling – Issue 2 Autumn 2015 The post Recycling – Issue 2 Autumn 2015 appeared first on The Recycling Association . The Recycling Association · 3 Aug 2015 Industry news WRAP report highlights ‘challenging’ plastics market Plastics recyclers are facing financial difficulties as a result of ‘challenging’ market conditions caused by tumbling oil prices, the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has said. The comments come in the organisation’s annual report and accounts, published today (August 3). The accounts are the first to be released following WRAP’s transition to charity status. … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Aug 2015 Industry news LWARB to invest in waste fund Up to £3 million is to be invested in a new waste fund in response to London’s rapid population growth, the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) has announced today (August 3). LWARB will invest in venture and growth stage businesses through the private equity fund with a view to finance ‘innovative’ waste management technologies … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Aug 2015 Industry news Brighton Wood Store now at Preston Barracks Brighton Woodstore, the first ever Community Wood Recycling enterprise, is moving its premises from the old marketplace on Circus Street. The new retail site is at Preston Barracks on Lewes Road. Community Wood Recycling · 3 Aug 2015 Industry news Has the circular economy become too unwieldy? Dr Gev Eduljee, head of external affairs at Suez, discusses the broad nature of the concept of a circular economy. As a circle stitching together the entire “take-make-dispose” economy, the circular economy concept is by its very nature a very broad church. But is this flexibility now becoming a hindrance? Comments made at the All-Party … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Aug 2015 Industry news Ferrybridge Multifuel facility ‘fully operational’ The £300 million Ferrybridge Multifuel 1 energy from waste facility in West Yorkshire has started full commercial operations. Multifuel Energy Limited (MEL), a joint venture between energy and gas supplier SSE and US firm Wheelabrator Technologies, will use a range of waste derived fuels to produce up to 70MW for the National Grid – enough … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Aug 2015 Industry news A force for good – understanding the EU waste market Environmental lawyer, Angus Evers of London law firm King & Wood Mallesons, in his monthly column, outlines some of the issues that could arise from the European Commission’s consultation on the functioning of waste markets in the EU. Hot on the heels of its consultation on the circular economy (which closes on 20 August 2015), … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Aug 2015 Industry news More councils looking to three-weekly refuse collections Residents in two areas of East Devon will see their refuse collected once every three weeks, under a trial due to be launched by the district council from September 2015 to boost recycling. Launch of the trial in East Devon comes as Powys council in central Wales also unveiled plans to switch to a three-weekly … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Aug 2015 Council news Section 106 and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) - Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council Basingstoke and Deane Council · 3 Aug 2015 Industry news EIA - eia-international.org Environmental Investigation Agency · 31 Jul 2015 Global “Getting Climate Finance Right” in the Waste Sector Waste-pickers from SWaCH and the KKPKP in Pune At a historic juncture for climate finance, Friends of the Earth US and the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) have co-edited a report showing that it is possible to get climate finance right. In the report, which includes work from many global, regional and local organisations including […] Zero Waste Europe · 31 Jul 2015 Global The White House Admits Biomass Burning Not “Carbon Neutral” There is strong evidence to counter the claims that biomass is carbon-neutral. In an important move, the White House released a Statement of Policy on the 23rd June, taking a strong stance against and vetoing the reclassification of all biomass power production as inherently “carbon-neutral”, a move which would have increased the attractiveness of biomass […] Zero Waste Europe · 31 Jul 2015 Global Slovenian Cement Plant Stops Operations as Environmental Permit Fails Approval In Trbovlje, Slovenia, the Lafarge-owned cement plant has been ordered to stop operations after it’s been revealed that the plant lacks the necessary environmental permits. The plant has filed a complaint to the Ministry of Environment of Slovenia and it’s expected that it will try to get further permissions, thus the local groups that have […] Zero Waste Europe · 31 Jul 2015 Policy & government H2O Fachdatenbank - wasser.umweltbundesamt.at Umweltbundesamt Austria · 31 Jul 2015 Industry news Boomeco to pay £18,000 over ‘inadequate’ RDF storage Waste wood and RDF company Boomeco has been ordered to pay £18,873 in fines and costs for ‘failing to store waste in an environmentally safe manner’ on Avonmouth Docks in Bristol. The ruling came after a number of complaints were lodged about an infestation of flies in the area in 2014. Boomeco Ltd processes between … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 31 Jul 2015 Industry news The Week in Waste – 31 July 2015 Take a look at the ‘Week in Waste’ video report. 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. This week we take a look at recycling in Thurrock, where the council has been hit by the closure of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 31 Jul 2015 Industry news Keep sending in your summer recycling selfies! Keep sending them in! Thanks to all our readers who are sending in their summer recycling snaps as part of “Summer Recycling Selfie” competition, sponsored by DHL Envirosolutions. You can see a selection of some of the pictures in the gallery below. For our summer competition, letsrecycle.com is inviting you to send in a “Summer … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 31 Jul 2015 Industry news Andigestion chairman: AD investment ‘misguided’ The Green Investment Bank (GIB) is ‘misguided’ to be funding AD development in the UK, the chairman of Andigestion has suggested. Speaking to letsrecycle.com, Peter Prior has said he ‘would not be surprised’ if a number of anaerobic digestion plants were decommissioned in the near future due to lack of feedstock. The criticism comes after … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 31 Jul 2015 Industry news £1.3m new plant puts Oxfordshire County Council on the road to boosting recycling rates The post £1.3m new plant puts Oxfordshire County Council on the road to boosting recycling rates appeared first on Grundon . Grundon Waste Management · 30 Jul 2015 Industry news Wood recyclers slam ‘uninformed’ EA storage restrictions Trade body the Wood Recyclers’ Association has criticised the Environment Agency’s waste wood storage restrictions for being based not on “any science of fact but on conjecture and un-informed opinion”. It follows yesterday’s (July 29) news that Hadfield Wood Recyclers has temporarily closed its gates in Manchester and Middlesbrough to incoming waste wood due to … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 30 Jul 2015 Industry news JCB unveils latest model in Wastemaster line Plant manufacturer JCB unveiled the latest in its Wastemaster range of vehicles with the launch of the ‘457WM’ wheeled loader at its global headquarters in Rocester, East Staffordshire, yesterday (July 29). The newly modelled 457, which will be on display for the first time at RWM 2015 in September, is the first machine to feature … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 30 Jul 2015 Industry news Metal recycler fined over worker hand injury A recycling firm in Bedfordshire has been fined £12,000 after a worker lost the top of his thumb whilst delivering waste metal. Totternhoe Metal Recycling Ltd (TMR) was also ordered to pay over £2,000 in costs following the incident at its recycling centre, The Lime Works, in April 2014. Luton Magistrates Court heard how the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 30 Jul 2015 Industry news Setting criteria to identify endocrine disrupters: proposed option ‘4b’ from German BfR is not a solution The European Commission is currently investigating the potential impacts of different ways of setting criteria to identify Endocrine (or Hormone) Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) and has proposed four options. At a recent European Commission conference at the beginning of June the German Risk Assessment Institute (BfR) presented an additional option, which they called ‘option 4b’. CHEM Trust has […] CHEM Trust · 30 Jul 2015 Industry news Top Safety Rating for Waste Managers National independent waste management company Cleansing Service Group (CSG) has been awarded accreditation from Safecontractor for its commitment to achieving excellence in health and safety. Safecontractor is a leading third party accreditation scheme which recognises high standards in health and safety management amongst UK contractors. Safecontractor say that its accreditation will enhance t… CSG (Cleansing Service Group) · 29 Jul 2015 Industry news How a charity shop can save more waste from landfill than you might imagine I’m delighted to welcome Jenni – one of our blogging Ambassadors – as a guest writer today. On a mission to save up for her first house, Jenni blogs about being thrifty, saving money, and reducing waste. She loves rummaging through charity shops, upcycling old furniture and doing what she can to be more sustainable. You can… Zero Waste Week · 29 Jul 2015 Industry news DHL introduces business WEEE collection charge DHL Envirosolutions will introduce a £48 charge for business WEEE collections through its ‘123 Recycle for Free’ partnership service from August due to “regulation changes and increased administration burdens”, the logistics and recycling services provider announced today (July 29). From August 1 2015, the £48 charge per collection will apply to all business collections to … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Jul 2015 Industry news Coca-Cola Enterprises makes sure Every Can Counts on its ‘Happiness Pod’ summer tour In a bid to boost recycling among consumers, Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE) has announced that this summer’s Coca-Cola ‘Happiness Pod’ tour will be supported by an awareness initiative developed in partnership with Every Can Counts. During July and August Coca-Cola is bringing its ‘Happiness Pod’ to towns and cities across the country. Built of four […] Alupro · 29 Jul 2015 Industry news More Jobs - ENDS Report ENDS Report · 29 Jul 2015 Industry news Hadfields Wood Recyclers shuts gates ‘to avoid EA enforcement’ Hadfields Wood Recyclers has temporarily shut gates to waste wood at its sites in Manchester and Middlesbrough to “avoid enforcement action from the Environment Agency” over material storage restrictions, the company revealed this morning (July 28). Hadfields says it is “devastated” as this is the first time in its 35-year history that it has had … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Jul 2015 Council news Sitemap South Gloucestershire Council · 29 Jul 2015 Industry news News in brief With news on: Plastic bag increase; Cromwell awarded Enfield contract; Tyre recycler awarded PAS 107 certificate; WRL Glass Media expands exports, and; Bournemouth moves waste software system online Plastic bag numbers on the rise in England The number of plastic bags taken from supermarkets has increased for the fifth year running, according to figures … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Jul 2015