Recycling news: 2011

Industry news Cutting waste could save Scottish business 2.36bn Data collated by Zero Waste Scotland highlights potential savings for Scottish businesses by cutting waste letsrecycle.com News · 28 Feb 2011 Industry news News in Brief Vehicles & Plant With news on a royal opening for the JCB Academy, a Dennis Eagle contract win and funding for a business waste collection vehicle letsrecycle.com News · 28 Feb 2011 Industry news Palm launches its first dual stream collection scheme Company formerly known as AbitibiBowater Consolidated Europe introduces changes under contract extension with Hinckley & Bosworth letsrecycle.com News · 28 Feb 2011 Industry news Staff cuts identified as way to make biggest savings Guidance on frontline waste service efficiencies issued by council support body APSE calls for focus on staffing and transport costs letsrecycle.com News · 28 Feb 2011 Industry news Bucks confirms WRG as frontrunner for EfW deal As county council endorses preferred bidder following review, waste company submits planning application for Calvert incinerator letsrecycle.com News · 28 Feb 2011 Industry news WRAP explores markets for anaerobic digestate Trials launched in England and Scotland in which digestate used as an alternative to commercial fertilisers letsrecycle.com News · 27 Feb 2011 Industry news Dorset paper recycler fined 40,000 over fire risk Investigation into fire safety by Dorset Fire and Rescue results in formal prosecution for Poole-based Total Waste letsrecycle.com News · 25 Feb 2011 Industry news Commingled row casts doubt over PaperChain CRR role Paper recycling body says future role in source-separation advocacy campaign yet to be agreed as it formally steps away from legal action letsrecycle.com News · 25 Feb 2011 Industry news News in Brief – People and Appointments With news on changes at Sauce Consultancy, the Confederation ofBritish Industryand environmental consultancy ADAS letsrecycle.com News · 25 Feb 2011 Industry news Glass recycling rates rise across Europe UK behind average, but hard to assess comparative performance due to quirk in data letsrecycle.com News · 25 Feb 2011 Industry news Government-funded AD plant opens in Lincolnshire Staples Vegetables starts operations at AD plant after receiving 2m from Environmental Transformation Fund letsrecycle.com News · 24 Feb 2011 Industry news Plastic bags a distraction from bigger green issues British Retail Consortium says Environment Agency report proves that carrier bags are notas evilas sometimes portrayed letsrecycle.com News · 24 Feb 2011 Industry news Household Hazardous Waste Forum under threat Research and support body to hold extraordinary general meeting next month in light of tightened council budgets threatening membership levels letsrecycle.com News · 24 Feb 2011 Industry news SITA loses Manchester waste PFI legal battle High Court judges dismiss appeal over ruling that prevented it launching claim regarding procurement ofGMWDA waste PFI letsrecycle.com News · 24 Feb 2011 Industry news RecycleBank uptake stalls over cost fears Highroll-out costs at a time of tightened budgetsappears to haveput brakes onintroduction of rewards-based schemes letsrecycle.com News · 24 Feb 2011 Industry news Support grows for Defra commingling stance Viridor and The Recycling Association back inclusion of method as separate collection and rally against "divisive" opposition letsrecycle.com News · 23 Feb 2011 Industry news News in Brief With news on vacancies on the ACP, an appointment at Envar and an interim performance update for Viridor letsrecycle.com News · 23 Feb 2011 Industry news Former NAWDO chief to head up Dorset waste body Newly-formed Dorset Waste Partnership names Steve Burdis as director to take charge from April 2011 when body officially launches letsrecycle.com News · 23 Feb 2011 Industry news Haulier jailed for illegally dumping thousands of tyres A waste haulier has received a 12-month prison sentence for illegally dumping thousands of used tyres. In a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency (EA), Mold Crown Court was told how Mark Watts, 41, of Burntwood, Staffordshire, transported the tyres to rented land at Abercynllaith, Oswestry and also a unit on the Broad Oak Business… Tyre Recovery Association · 23 Feb 2011 Industry news Home compostable certification scheme launched Association for Organics Recycling sets out criteria packaging and products need to meet if they are to be deemed 'home compostable' letsrecycle.com News · 22 Feb 2011 Research & science Acta Paediatrica | Paediatrics Journal - Wiley Online Library Journal of Industrial Ecology (Wiley) · 22 Feb 2011 Industry news Pickles approves Viridor Ardley EfW plans Communities secretary rubber-stamps Planning Inspectorate recommendation that plans for 300,000tpa facility be given go-ahead letsrecycle.com News · 22 Feb 2011 Industry news Waste sector wary of daylight savings plan Health and safety figureheads claim proposed change in British timekeeping could have adverse affect for waste and recycling collections letsrecycle.com News · 22 Feb 2011 Industry news Shanks to take over Wakefield waste PFI Waste firm enters agreement with preferred bidder Babcock to bring deal to financial close and then take over its running letsrecycle.com News · 22 Feb 2011 Industry news Herts eyes 2.4m extra income from textiles deal Partnership of 11 councils signs five-year deal for sale of material left at 200 collection banks county-wide letsrecycle.com News · 22 Feb 2011 Industry news FiTs review could offer a positive outcome for AD Dr Kevin Monson, of consultancy WYG, explores how the review of the Feed-in Tariff subsidy could benefit anaerobic digestion projects letsrecycle.com News · 22 Feb 2011 Industry news Barnet to open its first furniture reuse centre North London borough to launch project next month to help divert reusable material from landfill letsrecycle.com News · 18 Feb 2011 Industry news Wilcox invests in new crane for textile collections Purchase of hydraulic loader takes number of HMF cranes operated by West Midlands-based textile recycling firm to 15 letsrecycle.com News · 18 Feb 2011 Industry news Textile collectors raise concerns over licensing TRA presidentsays more councils refusing permission for door-to-door collections and favouring charities letsrecycle.com News · 18 Feb 2011 Industry news Cash-strapped Suffolk to close seven HWRCs County council set to reduce 18-strong recycling centre network as it seeks to find 43 million in savings for 2011/12 letsrecycle.com News · 18 Feb 2011 Industry news Construction starts on 21m Leicester MRF Paper recycling specialist Casepak to double reprocessing capacity with 150,000 tpa sorting plant letsrecycle.com News · 17 Feb 2011 Industry news Alliance finds ‘shocking’ disparity in bin numbers TaxPayers' Alliance report on 'frustrated' taxpayers and bin numbers keeps topic in national press letsrecycle.com News · 17 Feb 2011 Industry news News in Brief With news on the first meeting of the Green Economy Council, an appointment at FEAD and Defra guidance on municipal waste letsrecycle.com News · 17 Feb 2011 Industry news Scotlands recycling rate reaches 37.7% Figures published for year ending September 2010indicate that 40% goal will be missed at current rate of increase letsrecycle.com News · 17 Feb 2011 Industry news News in Brief With news on Every Can Counts in universities, backing for EfW in Devon and work underway on New Earth's MBT site letsrecycle.com News · 16 Feb 2011 Industry news Four HWRCs in Greater Manchester face the axe Joint Waste Authority becomes latestcouncil bodyto review recycling centres as part of cost-saving measure letsrecycle.com News · 16 Feb 2011 Industry news Home composter framework ‘saves councils 500k’ Bin manufacturer Straight says that 57% of councils are signed up to framework for which it holds the sole contract letsrecycle.com News · 15 Feb 2011 Industry news 2K’s flagship mixed plastics plant nears completion Company which develops plywood substitute from mixed plastic feedstockto be fully operational in March letsrecycle.com News · 15 Feb 2011 Industry news Incineration drive begins with plastics sector support Joint statement supported by waste companies, trade bodies and universities launched in bid to influence government policy letsrecycle.com News · 15 Feb 2011 Industry news Companies defend commingling ahead of legal action The Campaign for Real Recycling's bid for a judicial review over a Defra decision has come in for strong criticism letsrecycle.com News · 15 Feb 2011