Recycling news: 2016

Council news Contact details - High Peak Borough Council Staffordshire Moorlands Council · 11 Dec 2016 Council news Benefits and financial help - Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Staffordshire Moorlands Council · 11 Dec 2016 Council news Highway Licences - Redbridge Council Redbridge Council · 10 Dec 2016 Council news Contact details - Development Control Committee - High Peak Borough Council High Peak Council · 10 Dec 2016 Council news Development Control Committee - High Peak Borough Council High Peak Council · 10 Dec 2016 Council news Voting and elections - Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Staffordshire Moorlands Council · 10 Dec 2016 Council news wss - Moray Council Moray Council · 10 Dec 2016 Council news Staffordshire Moorlands Councillors - Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Staffordshire Moorlands Council · 10 Dec 2016 Council news Planning Policy - Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Staffordshire Moorlands Council · 10 Dec 2016 Council news Housing - Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Staffordshire Moorlands Council · 10 Dec 2016 Council news Council tax - Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Staffordshire Moorlands Council · 9 Dec 2016 Industry news Recycling & Resource Recovery Solutions UK & Ireland | Enva - enva.com Enva · 9 Dec 2016 Council news Durham County Council Street Lighting Policy - Durham County Council County Durham Council · 9 Dec 2016 Council news Collection Day Lookup - My Mid Devon - Your Address - Mid Devon District Council Mid Devon Council · 9 Dec 2016 Industry news Suez highlights festive recycling messages Recycling and waste firm Suez has issued a festive reminder to recycle as much as possible during the Christmas season – highlighting its message in a webinar hosted in partnership with letsrecycle.com. Titled ‘Tis the Season to Recycle! Engaging your residents to increase recycling participation and minimise contamination’ the hour-long webinar touched on best practice … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Dec 2016 Industry news News in Brief (9/12/2016) With news on: Carton plant to reprocess paper cups; Parliamentarians visit Veolia’s facility in Southwark; NI announces £2.6million funding from carrier bag levy, and; Calderdale reviews health and safety measures. ACE UK carton plant to reprocess paper cups UK waste collection company Simply Waste Solutions will collect and supply used cups to the ACE UK facility to be … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Dec 2016 Council news Tips (household recycling centres) - High Peak Borough Council High Peak Council · 9 Dec 2016 Industry news The Week in Waste – 9 December VIDEO: In this weekly news round-up video, we report on the opening of a plant near Bridgend that will treat food waste on behalf of three Welsh local authorities. Also, we report on an agreement between West Berkshire and Hampshire councils over the cross-border use of HWRCs. letsrecycle.com News · 9 Dec 2016 Council news Current licence applications - High Peak Borough Council High Peak Council · 9 Dec 2016 Industry news Alupro calls for ‘stretching but realistic’ aluminium target Alupro – the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation – has expressed ‘frustration’ at the proposed targets set out by the government for the recycling of aluminium packaging up to 2020. Last month, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) launched a consultation outlining three options for future target levels for the collection and recycling … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Dec 2016 Council news What goes in your bins - High Peak Borough Council High Peak Council · 9 Dec 2016 Industry news Send us your recycling-themed limericks! It has been ‘the most wonderful time of the year’…when letsrecycle.com launched its Christmas competition! Sponsored by GJF Fabrications, over the Christmas period and until 5 January, we are asking readers to send in their wittiest recycling-themed limericks: humorous rhymes comprising five lines. Following our Christmas cracker competition in 2015, we were overwhelmed by the quantity … Read M… letsrecycle.com News · 9 Dec 2016 Council news Voting and elections - High Peak Borough Council High Peak Council · 9 Dec 2016 Council news Housing - High Peak Borough Council High Peak Council · 9 Dec 2016 Council news High Peak Borough Council - High Peak Borough Council - High Peak Borough Council High Peak Council · 8 Dec 2016 Industry news Scientists call for an end to the manipulation of science on hormone disrupting chemicals Nearly 100 leading scientists from universities and research institutes around the world have joined forces to underline the urgent need for action on climate change and hormone (endocrine) disrupting chemicals (EDCs). In a commentary, ‘Let’s stop the manipulation of science‘, (also available in French), published by Le Monde last week, they warn that vested interests are wilfully distorting th… CHEM Trust · 8 Dec 2016 Industry news Reopening of Historic Earlsfield Amateur Boxing Club Some of London’s leading boxers along with London ABA officials and Shadow Sports Minister Rosena Allin-Khan reopened Earlsfield Amateur Boxing Club (ABC) earlier this week following major refurbish... Powerday · 8 Dec 2016 Industry news Veolia partners with Reuseful on PPE project A partnership between Veolia and charity Reuseful UK has reported positive results in recycling and reusing used personal protective equipment (PPE) from the company’s London contracts. The project, called ‘Re:Form’, aims to divert about 10,000 items a year weighing about 10 tonnes in total, from landfill or incineration. The PPE is coming from 3,000 Veolia … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Dec 2016 Industry news WRAP Cymru backs case for separate recycling collections A report from WRAP Cymru has claimed that source separated kerbside collections offer Welsh local authorities “the most cost effective approach” to achieving high dry recycling rates. Commissioned by the Welsh Government, the report compares the cost of source-separated kerbside collections to commingled and two stream collections. In order for local authorities to meet the … Read More The post… letsrecycle.com News · 8 Dec 2016 Industry news MRF operators urged to be ‘versatile’ in wake of Brexit Changes in the composition of household waste and uncertainty over employment laws in the wake of Brexit will force materials recycling facility (MRF) operators to become more versatile, industry experts have said. This was the message from speakers at the MRF Best Practice Conference in Birmingham yesterday (7 December), where delegates gathered to debate the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Dec 2016 Industry news News in Brief (8/12/2016) With news on: Frugalpac joins Paper Cup Recovery and Recycling Group; Exeter University in recycling challenge; Nottinghamshire Bee Gardeners receive Veolia grant, and; Viridor lights up Dunbar for Christmas. Frugalpac joins Paper Cup Recovery and Recycling Group British packaging company Frugalpac, which created a recyclable paper coffee cup, has joined the industry’s Paper Cup Recovery and Re… letsrecycle.com News · 8 Dec 2016 Industry news Who is Scott Pruitt? Donald Trump’s pick to run the EPA — in his own words This blog is a crosspost from Greenpeace USA Firmly eliminating any notion that he would maintain an “open mind” on climate change, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen a climate denier and fossil fuel shill for one of the top environmental positions in his administration. Scott Pruitt, Attorney General of Oklahoma since 2011, is a favorite […] Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 8 Dec 2016 Council news Join the Register & Find a home - Guildford Borough Council Guildford Council · 7 Dec 2016 Industry news IKEA reports 88% recycling and recovery rate The IKEA Group published its Sustainability Report for 2016 today (7 December), showing continued investment and progress towards its sustainability targets. In the 12 months to the end of August 2016, IKEA Group – the furniture and homewares retailer – generated 560,650 tonnes of waste, of which 88.7% was recycled or incinerated for energy recovery … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Dec 2016 Industry news New Earth IVC blaze under investigation An investigation into a fire which hit New Earth Solutions’ Sharpness Dock in-vessel composting (IVC) site on Friday (2 December) is continuing. Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service and Avon Fire and Rescue were called to the facility to reports of a blaze at a warehouse on the site at around 6am. At its height, over … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Dec 2016 Industry news Councils reach agreement over ‘cross-boundary’ HWRC use West Berkshire and Hampshire councils have reached agreement to allow some residents to use household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) across authority boundaries, following a clampdown on ‘out-of-town’ users. The agreement comes following the introduction of a permitting system in West Berkshire – which prevents residents living close to the border in Hampshire using the Veolia-run … Read More … letsrecycle.com News · 7 Dec 2016 Industry news Fine issued following SEPA waste tyre storage investigation A businessman has been fined £34,000 for offences relating to the storage of waste tyres at five sites across Scotland. James McHale, who had been trading under the business name ‘McIntyres’, was sentenced at Falkirk Sheriff Court on Friday (2 December) after pleading guilty to persistent breaches of waste management licensing requirements which occurred at … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Dec 2016 Global Hitachi Zosen Inova A consortium formed by Hitachi Zosen Corporationand KPN Green Energy Solution Co., Ltd.(KPN), engaged in the engineering of renewable energy... ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology) · 7 Dec 2016 Industry news Dutch coal phaseout: Will the Netherlands really shut down brand new coal power plants? European utilities have invested massively in new coal and gas power plants in the last ten years, but those very projects are already at risk following last year’s historic UN climate agreement. The rise of renewable energy has driven fossil fuel overcapacity and low power prices across the continent, and several countries – including the […] Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 7 Dec 2016 Global IMPACTPapeRec Project Conference and Networking Informative Meeting IMPACTPapeRec invites you to join the Project Conference and Informative Meeting to be held 24 January in Barcelona, Spain. Join us to learn more and share your insights on how separate collection of paper for recycling in Europe can be enhanced. Date and location The IMPACTPapeRec Project Conference and Networking Informative Meeting will take place […] CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 6 Dec 2016