Recycling news: 2016

Industry news Evidence - the health and wellbeing benefits of food growing - Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming Sustain · 17 Aug 2016 Industry news Mayor’s deputy tasked with boosting London’s recycling Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced the appointment of Shirley Rodrigues as Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy – tasked with improving the capital’s performance on recycling and cutting landfill. Ms Rodrigues is currently acting executive director for climate change at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), having previously worked in City Hall in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Aug 2016 Industry news Councillors call for delay to Camden waste contract EXCLUSIVE: Conservative councillors in Camden have mounted a challenge against the award of an upcoming eight-year waste and recycling collections contract – for which Veolia was recently named preferred bidder. The call-in, which will be debated at a council scrutiny committee meeting tonight (17 August), regards a £18 million deal which would see Veolia continue … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Aug 2016 Industry news Manslaughter case sees Wolverhampton firm fined £600,000 A waste management company and its former general manager have been found guilty of manslaughter following the death of a worker at a West Midlands waste site in 2012. At a hearing at Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday (16 August) Bilston Skips – which is now in liquidation – alongside the company’s former manager Bikram Singh … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Aug 2016 Industry news Bristol Waste sets sights on commercial expansion EXCLUSIVE: Council-owned business Bristol Waste is looking to roll out commercial waste collections, following news that it has won a 10-year contract to provide waste services in the city. Bristol Waste Company – which operates at arm’s length to Bristol city council – is seeking a commercial development manager to deliver ‘profitable’ and ‘sustainable’ business … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Aug 2016 Council news Greenwood's Map of Northumberland - Northumberland County Council Northumberland Council · 17 Aug 2016 Industry news Food growing in schools - Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming Sustain · 17 Aug 2016 Industry news Good Food for London 2015 - Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming Sustain · 17 Aug 2016 Industry news Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP) - United Kingdom Without Incineration Network UKWIN (UK Without Incineration Network) · 16 Aug 2016 Policy & government RG5 4UE, Summerleaze Limited: environmental permit issued View the permit issued for Hurst Landfill, Reading under the Industrial Emissions Directive. GOV.UK · 16 Aug 2016 Industry news Purse seines - Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming Sustain · 16 Aug 2016 Industry news Fire burns into fourth day at Norfolk recycling site Firefighters are still at the scene of a major fire at a waste transfer facility run by Glazewing in West Dereham, Norfolk, which began this weekend. Fire broke out at the site at around 6.15am on Saturday (13 August) morning. Approximately thirteen pumps from Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and a number of specialist appliances attended … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Aug 2016 Industry news WRWA to redevelop Cringle Dock transfer station he Western Riverside Waste Authority (WRWA) has secured planning permission from Wandsworth council for the redevelopment of its Cringle Dock waste transfer station. One of the authority’s two waste transfer stations, Cringle Dock is located on the River Thames to the east of Battersea, and primarily handles municipal waste from four London boroughs: Hammersmith & … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Aug 2016 Council news Armstrong's Map of Northumberland - Northumberland County Council Northumberland Council · 16 Aug 2016 Industry news FCC landfill restoration plan gets green light FCC Environment’s ‘masterplan’ to restore a former Black Country quarry and landfill has been approved by Sandwell metropolitan borough council. The site, at Edwin Richards Quarry near Rowley Regis, will see a range of activity including the placement of thousands of tonnes of commercial and industrial waste, as well as construction and demolition wastes such as soils, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Aug 2016 Industry news News in brief (16/08/2016) With news on: Broadland recycling reward scheme; Resources published for Recycle Week; Welsh waste review published; Charity calls for deposit scheme, and; Argyll and Bute moves to three-weekly collection. Broadland launches recycling reward scheme Broadland district council in Norfolk has launched a new scheme, ‘Bin it to Win it,’ in which residents can win £50 … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Aug 2016 Council news Fryer's Map of Northumberland - Northumberland County Council Northumberland Council · 16 Aug 2016 Industry news Are local authorities driving waste on the road to nowhere? OPINION: In an exclusive column for letsrecycle.com Neil Grundon, deputy chairman of Grundon Waste Management offers his view on efficiency in public sector waste services. In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher took a scythe to a bloated and unproductive public sector with the introduction of ‘Compulsory Competitive Tendering’ (CCT). Like most things Thatcher did, it was … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Aug 2016 Industry news Brighton councillor defends city’s recycling rate EXCLUSIVE: Comparing Brighton & Hove’s recycling performance against other authorities is unfair according to the city’s environment committee chair – who has blamed a further drop in the city’s recycling rate on a “climate of budget reductions”. Councillor Gill Mitchell, chair of Brighton’s environment, transport and sustainability committee, defended the city following the publication of … Re… letsrecycle.com News · 15 Aug 2016 Industry news Council waste spending topped £2.3 billion in 2013/14 EXCLUSIVE: Local authorities in England and Wales spent close to £2.38 billion on waste collection and disposal services in 2013/14, figures compiled by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) suggest. The figure, which is the most recent projection of council spending on waste services, comes in guidance on charges for waste services … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Aug 2016 Industry news Steve Lee to remain head of RWUK The outgoing chief executive of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM), Steve Lee, has been announced today (15 August) as director general of the joint lobbying body Resources & Waste UK (RWUK). Mr Lee is leaving CIWM in October and has served as the chief executive of RWUK since that organisation was created in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Aug 2016 Industry news Bristol in-house firm awarded 10-year waste contract Bristol Waste Company – a business set up by Bristol city council – has been awarded a 10-year contract to provide integrated waste collection and disposal services across the city. The contract award follows Bristol city council’s termination of its waste and recycling services contract with Kier in June 2015 – three years earlier than … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Aug 2016 Industry news Toxic ash - United Kingdom Without Incineration Network UKWIN (UK Without Incineration Network) · 14 Aug 2016 Council news Seaton Sluice - Northumberland County Council Northumberland Council · 14 Aug 2016 Industry news Real Bread Week - Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming Sustain · 13 Aug 2016 Council news Register for my account - myaccount.northyorks.gov.uk North Yorkshire Council · 13 Aug 2016 Industry news Pledge - Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming Sustain · 13 Aug 2016 Council news Local Land Charges - Hastings Borough Council Hastings Council · 12 Aug 2016 Industry news £46,000 of WEEE research funding on offer Stakeholders are being invited to submit suggestions for how £46,000 raised via the WEEE compliance fee could be utilised to boost collections of waste electricals. A total of £27,000 collected through the 2015 compliance fee from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is to be spent on the research – along with £19,000 carried over … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Aug 2016 Industry news The Week in Waste – 12 August 2016 Take a look at the ‘Week in Waste’ video report. In this week’s report by letsrecycle.com, sponsored by Biffa, we report on Surrey county council’s decision to introduce a charging regime at its household waste and recycling centres (HWRCs), while the Health and Safety Executive is also seeking views on waste equipment safety laws. The … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Aug 2016 Industry news Ubico managing director to step down Rob Bell, managing director at Ubico, has announced today (12 August) that he will step down from his role at the end of this year. After five successful years at the helm of the environmental services provider, personal circumstances have prompted Mr Bell to hand over the reins of the company. In the five years … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Aug 2016 Industry news How to recycle paper in the office Here’s an interesting query I had this week. They wrote: “One of our challenges is that our current waste/recycling contractor sends waste paper to incineration and we are unable to release ourselves from the contract until 2017. While some of us would be prepared to take paper home to be recycled, we’re aware that if… Zero Waste Week · 12 Aug 2016 Industry news Andrea Leadsom urged to act over HWRCs conflict EXCLUSIVE: In the face of increasing cross-border conflict over the use of household waste recycling centres, a senior conservative councillor has called on the Secretary of State for the Environment, Andrea Leadsom to step in and help resolve matters. The call for government action comes from councillor Marcus Franks, portfolio holder for communities and public … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Aug 2016 Industry news Starbucks fined £160,000 for breaching waste collection times Two Starbucks branches in the City of Westminster local authority area have been fined £160,000 after “deliberately” leaving rubbish bags on the street outside of designated collection times. Since April 2015 both coffee shops on Berkeley Street, as well as the Starbucks head office, had shown a “complete disregard” for regular warnings from Westminster city council to … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Aug 2016 Council news Constitution - Tower Hamlets Council Tower Hamlets Council · 12 Aug 2016 Industry news UK’s largest autoclave plant to be resurrected A defunct autoclave plant in Gateshead is to receive a new lease of life from October 2016, following a £2.2 million injection into the facility. And, the site’s new owner – Catfoss – has also been awarded planning consent to construct two gasification plants on the five-acre site. Graphite Resources’ Derwenthaugh EcoParc closed its doors … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Aug 2016 Council news Committee details - Development Committee - Tower Hamlets Council Tower Hamlets Council · 12 Aug 2016 Industry news Kennetholme quarry named as a PRIME Site by The Institute of Quarrying The post Kennetholme quarry named as a PRIME Site by The Institute of Quarrying appeared first on Grundon . Grundon Waste Management · 11 Aug 2016 Industry news Contact us - KHL Group Demolition & Recycling International (KHL) · 11 Aug 2016 Industry news News in Brief (11/08/2016) With news on: Taunton MP visits Viridor recycling centre; Geminor opens new facility; Sheffield council launches waste consultation; Grundon helps restore Crawley glasshouse; Worcestershire pair fined Taunton MP visits Viridor recycling centre Rebecca Pow MP for Taunton Deane spent the afternoon on 9 August with waste management company Viridor and visited its recycling centre and … Read More T… letsrecycle.com News · 11 Aug 2016