Recycling news: 2015

Policy & government Implications of the party leaders’ climate pledge for the Committee’s work On February 14th 2015, the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition published a joint statement highlighting the threat of climate change, the opportunity for the UK in responding to it and the importance of 2015 in accelerating action globally. Climate Change Committee · 13 Mar 2015 Industry news Dorset Waste Partnership to deliver ‘action plan’ Councillors charged with overseeing the Dorset Waste Partnership have agreed on a 37-point action plan to redress problems that led to the public body’s £2.76 million overspend. And, Steve Mackenzie – chief executive of Purbeck district council – will take “overall responsibility” to ensure the plan is delivered following the suspension of director Steve Burdis … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 13 Mar 2015 Industry news SecondhandFirst Styles. Winner Announced! Last month we held the first in a series of Late Night events planned for 2015. We invited everyone to... TRAID · 13 Mar 2015 Industry news Labour MP: Coalition has ‘patronised’ waste industry The Labour Party will put “resource security” at the heart of its economic plan if it wins the General Election in May, Barry Gardiner MP has assured the waste industry in a scathing appraisal of the current government. And, Mr Gardiner confirmed that a Labour government would be committed to giving the Green Investment Bank … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 13 Mar 2015 Council news - pa.midsussex.gov.uk Mid Sussex Council · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news SITA UK rebrands as Suez Environnement Waste and recycling services provider SITA UK has rebranded as SUEZ Environnement today (March 12), adopting ‘a new position’ in the management of resources. SITA UK, the UK division of the global SUEZ Environnement Group, will join the other subsidiaries within the group in operating under a single name. The firm will become the Recycling … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news Office for Resource Management ‘would not neglect environment’ Supporters of plans for an Office for Resource Management (ORM) within government have defended the environmental benefits of the policy. The comments come as a delegation of resource and environmental organisations deliver a paper before Parliament today, calling for a separate unit to advise on waste policy within government. The ORM would operate as a … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news Wandsworth uses route map to assess TEEP compliance Commingled collections in the London borough of Wandsworth are to remain after the council’s in-house TEEP assessment deemed that changes are not necessary to bring it in line with legal requirements for separate collection. A report to the council’s Housing and Community Services committee, which met last month, considered whether the council’s current collection service … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news Edinburgh to remove trade waste bins from streets Edinburgh city council is to enforce a ban on leaving trade waste bins out on the city’s streets from next month. The city council piloted the proposed scheme early last year (see letsrecycle.com story) and has opted to phase in the policy across the city beginning in April. As a result of the policy change … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news POWERDAY HELPS DELIVER NEW BOXING CLUB IN HARINGEY Powerday celebrated the opening of the new Selby Boxing Club last week which they helped to deliver through their partnership with London Amateur Boxing Association. After two years of attracting ove... Powerday · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news CELEBRATE ST PATRICK’S DAY WITH LONDON IRISH Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with London Irish Rugby Football Club when they play Newcastle Falcons on 28th March. The fun starts at 11.00am at the Madejski stadium and the club is offering great val... Powerday · 12 Mar 2015 Policy & government Wales in a Changing Union Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb gave the Institute of Welsh Politics annual lecture at Aberystwyth University. GOV.UK · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Palm offers paper market reassurance The UK’s largest manufacturer of newsprint from used newspapers and magazines has moved to reassure local authorities and businesses that it is “fully-committed” to the UK recovered paper sector. Palm Recycling, which supplies material for the German-owned Palm Paper mill in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, confirmed that the newsprint industry “has been under immense pressure”. But, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Sargeant announces Welsh recycling review Wales’ natural resources minister Carl Sargeant has announced that the Welsh Government will carry out a review of its guidance on waste and recycling collections. The minister was responding to recommendations made in the Environment and Sustainability Committee report on Recycling in Wales, and stated that he was pleased that the Committee had recognised the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Cardiff councillors question Welsh recycling target Cardiff council has proposed rolling out smaller residual bins for some 96,000 households, amid criticism that the 58% recycling target set by the Welsh Government is ‘exceptionally high’. Growing unease within the council’s environmental scrutiny committee that Cardiff will be unable to meet the 2016 objective comes ahead of the expected announcement that the Welsh … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Wales to announce recycling policy review Reaching the statutory Welsh Government target of 70% recycling by 2025 will be “far more difficult than reaching the present position”, one of Wales top environment politicians declared yesterday. The warning came from Alan Ffred Jones, a former leader of Gwynedd council, who is now chair of the environment and sustainability committee of the National … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Council news Planning Applications - Adur & Worthing Borough Council - Adur & Worthing Councils Adur Council · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Councils grapple with commodity price falls The recent fall in the price of recovered commodities such as paper and plastic could not have come at a worse time for local authorities who are already struggling with budget cuts, senior figures in the sector have warned. And, some have raised fears that councils may be forced to change services if commodity values … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Agency waste raids lead to trafficking arrests Six arrests were made following dawn raids on four suspected illegal waste sites across England by the Environment Agency yesterday (March 10), with possible links to forced labour uncovered at one of the sites. According to the Agency the action follows an investigation into illegal dumping of potentially hazardous waste at illegal sites in Bristol, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Council news Register as a new user - Modern Council - Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Kingston upon Thames Council · 10 Mar 2015 Industry news Driving the RDF market forward Oliver Latter, managing director of Boomeco, discusses the growing RDF market and investment in technology to support it. Processing domestic waste into fuel is a new and emerging industry. In 2010, it didn’t really exist in the UK, but this year, around two million tonnes is expected to be exported to Europe, which has the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2015 Industry news Ella’s Kitchen launches recycling initiative Children’s food brand Ella’s Kitchen has launched a recycling scheme for its baby food pouches in collaboration with multinational recycling firm Terracycle. The ‘Ellacycle’ scheme aims to help parents recycle the pouches, which are not collected for recycling by local authorities. It is encouraging them to set up pouch collection points in public places such … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2015 Industry news Scottish MRF Code to apply from April The legislation requiring operators of materials sorting facilities in Scotland to measure the quality of the recyclable material that they receive and sort becomes law from next month. This comes after the Waste (Recyclate Quality) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 which were laid in Parliament last week. The requirement to measure the quality of input and output … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2015 Industry news Gloucester to assess possible commingling switch Gloucester city council and its recycling contractor Amey are considering a move to fortnightly commingled collections from 2016, which they plan to assess against TEEP requirements. The council’s current weekly kerbside sort contract with Amey runs until 2022 with the option to extend to 2027. Dry recycling is collected each week in green boxes, alongside … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2015 Industry news Scrapped circular economy proposals ‘could re-emerge’ Several of the issues embraced in the European Commission’s dropped circular economy package may ‘re-emerge’ in the revised plan, an EU policy expert predicted at a reception in Westminster last night. David Baldock, chief executive of the Institute for European Environmental Policy, also claimed the decision to scrap Janez Potočnik’s package in December had ignited … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2015 Industry news 7 upcycled ways to celebrate Mother’s Day! It will be Mother’s Day soon and I’m all about the experience rather than the stuff. Give the bathroom a clean or give me a massage I’m one happy bunny. But one of the most common requests from Mums is something handmade from the kids. What better way to show their love to you AND… Zero Waste Week · 10 Mar 2015 Industry news Appointments round-up 10/03/2015 With news on Remondis UK promoting from within; director of sales joining Yorwaste, Recolight appointing board members and chair; and, fresh faces at technology firm Yotta. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Director of sales joins Yorwaste North-Yorkshire-based waste management company Yorwaste has appointed Chris Leach as director of sale… letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2015 Industry news Murder probe follows Kent waste depot death Police in Kent are holding a man in his forties following the death of a man at a Cory-run waste and recycling depot in Tunbridge Wells today (March 9). Full details of the incident, which occurred at around 6 o’clock this morning, are yet to be released, although it has been confirmed that the Police … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Mar 2015 Industry news Plant and technology news round-up 09/03/15 With news on a Cross WRAP bale opener for SRF; swissRTec delamination milling machine for shredder residue; slow speed Doppstadt shredder; KME container sort line; and, Lexus plastics recycling technology grant. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ SRF bale opener delivered to UK Finnish company Cross Wrap, which produces bale opening and … letsrecycle.com News · 9 Mar 2015 Industry news ANSS take delivery of custom-made mud cutting skips Augean North Sea Services (ANSS) continues to invest in the oil and gas market by developing custom made mud skips with the collaboration with Suretank. The new mud cutting skips were tailor designed to meet ANSS’s strict operational requirements as well as industry standards. As part of ANSS continuing growth and long term commitment, 250 […] Augean · 9 Mar 2015 Industry news Disparity in WEEE data under Agency scrutiny The Environment Agency is investigating an apparent disparity in figures outlining the amount of WEEE collected for recycling – with new data suggesting that the UK could have fallen short of its collection target. Last month, the government’s business minister Matthew Hancock announced that the UK had exceeded its target to collect 490,000 tonnes of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Mar 2015 Industry news WRAP: Removing contaminated recycling bins ‘last resort’ Local authorities should consider removing recycling bins from householders who repeatedly deposit non-target materials, but only as a ‘last resort’, a council guide published by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has advised. And, education of collection crews, mandatory output sampling at materials recycling facilities (MRFs) as well as setting ‘realistic’ contamination levels when… letsrecycle.com News · 9 Mar 2015 Industry news Biowise to complete Hull IVC development East Riding recycling firm Biowise has secured around £4 million in funding for the development of a 60,000 tonnes-per-year in-vessel composting facility in Willerby near Hull. It follows the award of a 10-year contract by Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire councils in July last year to collect and process garden and food waste from … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Mar 2015 Industry news New Acquisition for Waste Management Group Independent waste management company Cleansing Service Group (CSG) has underscored its eagerness for growth by announcing its fifth business acquisition in two years. Just a few weeks into 2015, the company has confirmed it has acquired part of the business and assets of Tradebe Refinery Services (TRS) based at Sandycroft, North Wales, and formerly known […] CSG (Cleansing Service Group) · 9 Mar 2015 Industry news Waste Managers Take a Stake in Green Gas Technology Cleansing Service Group, one of the largest privately owned waste management companies in the UK, has strengthened its green credentials by investing in the renewable energy technology sector. It has gained an equity stake in Refgas Ltd, the Deeside based developer of a state of the art, ultra clean, modular “green gas and energy” generating […] CSG (Cleansing Service Group) · 9 Mar 2015 Global Zero Waste practices from San Francisco (USA) and Contarina (Italy) show transition is possible The front-runners in the US and the EU when it comes to waste management presented their experiences in Brussels in March 4. A selected audience composed of members of the European Parliament, European Commission officials and stakeholders learned about the good practices from San Francisco and the province of Treviso in northern Italy. In the […] Zero Waste Europe · 7 Mar 2015 Industry news Election 2015: Zero time to waste SITA’s head of external affairs Gev Eduljee takes a closer look at the policy pledges on waste and recycling outlined by the Liberal Democrat party this week. This month the Liberal Democrats put a bit more flesh on the bones of their proposed Zero Waste Bill, trailed in their pre-manifesto document A Stronger Economy and … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 6 Mar 2015 Industry news Practice what you preach This week the Liberal Democrats were back on the campaign trail and displaying their green credentials, with a pledge to introduce a 70% recycling target for England if elected in May. This was just one of a number of attractive proposals Mr Clegg had in store for the waste and resources sector – including tougher … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 6 Mar 2015 Industry news Every Can Counts finds UK shoppers divided over retail recycling facilities More than half of UK consumers have never used their local shopping centre’s recycling facilities, according to a research report from leading drinks can recycling programme, Every Can Counts. These results, taken from a survey of customers at two shopping centres with a combined footfall of 38 million, also reported that while consumers are in […] Alupro · 6 Mar 2015 Industry news AD operators ‘could aid’ food waste collection costs Anaerobic digestion operators may need to contribute to food waste collection costs to ensure the future supply of ‘quality’ feedstock, a cross-departmental government working group has suggested. The findings are part of the government’s ‘Building a high value bioeconomy: Opportunities from Waste’ report published yesterday (March 5) which presents the basis for the growth of … Read More The p… letsrecycle.com News · 6 Mar 2015