Recycling news: 2016

Council news Cycling - London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Hammersmith and Fulham Council · 3 Mar 2016 Council news Parking permits - London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Hammersmith and Fulham Council · 3 Mar 2016 Council news Births, deaths and marriages - London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Hammersmith and Fulham Council · 3 Mar 2016 Council news Recycling and rubbish - London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Hammersmith and Fulham Council · 3 Mar 2016 Council news Council tax - London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Hammersmith and Fulham Council · 3 Mar 2016 Industry news Suez to oversee East Devon three-weekly waste service East Devon district council has awarded a seven-year waste and recycling collection contract to its current operator Suez, which will see a new fleet of kerbside-sort vehicles collecting a wider range of plastics and cardboard from households. Worth more than £30 million, the deal has the option to extend for a further three years and … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Mar 2016 Industry news Lichfield and Tamworth take on new collection fleet The Lichfield & Tamworth Joint Waste Service has begun taking delivery of a replacement fleet of 22 new vehicles that will start collecting recycling and waste from 76,000 homes across the two boroughs. The delivery of the vehicles has followed a competitive tendering process, which saw Specialist Fleet Services Ltd (SFS) chosen as the service’s … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Mar 2016 Industry news Agency finds higher 2015 WEEE collection rate Figures published by the Environment Agency suggest that collections of WEEE carried out during 2015 may have been higher than previously assumed. Provisional household WEEE collection figures for the final quarter of 2015, published by the Environment Agency yesterday (1 March) show that a total of 521,609 tonnes of WEEE was collected throughout the year. … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Mar 2016 Industry news Creating ‘circular’ cities Wayne Hubbard, chief operating officer at the London Waste & Recycling Board (LWARB) unpacks the debate around the circular economy and looks at how cities could be crucial in its development. There is a lot of the talk currently about the circular economy. Although it is a concept that has been around for decades in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Mar 2016 Industry news TRA announces details of Tyre Recycling Day 2016 The annual Tyre Recycling Day, organised by the TRA, is to be held in partnership with the RMA on 20 May 2016 at the Ardencote Manor Hotel, Warwickshire. Last year over 70 attendees attended the Recycling Day and the TRA is looking to continue that success in 2016. The theme for this year’s event is… Tyre Recovery Association · 2 Mar 2016 Industry news UK climate means no impact from EfW rule change Energy from waste facilities processing municipal solid waste in the UK will not be affected by a European Union rule change to the methodology used to assess whether the plants meet what is commonly known as ‘R1’ status. The new measures from the European Commission aim to change the methodology which is used to calculate … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Mar 2016 Global Circular Economy for paper: Better design and management guidelines A World Economic Forum publication in collaboration with industry The European paper industry was invited to collaborate with the World Economic Forum (the Forum), the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment on Circular Economy to produce a white paper with guidelines on design and management for circularity. The new publication […] CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 1 Mar 2016 Global Design and Management for Circularity – the Case of Paper The European paper industry was invited to collaborate with the World Economic Forum (the Forum), the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment on Circular Economy to produce a white paper with guidelines on design and management for circularity. The new publication provides essential guidance to all actors in the supply […] CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 1 Mar 2016 Industry news Over 1000 British jobs could be lost if environment agency proposals are implemented, says TRA The Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) has raised grave concerns that over 1000 jobs will be lost if the Environment Agency’s (EA) proposed new fire prevention guidelines are implemented in full. The TRA believes the EA’s proposed stack height restrictions and minimum fire break widths are arbitrary and have not been subjected to a proper impact… Tyre Recovery Association · 1 Mar 2016 Industry news Biscuit producer makes donation for packaging non-compliance A multinational biscuit producer has contributed almost £40,000 to a leading charity – after failing to register the amount of packaging it had imported for 15 years. Bahlsen LLP, which imports a number of biscuit products and other foods, should have reported the tonnages to the Environment Agency under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Mar 2016 Industry news Veolia to run Hampshire’s HWRCs Veolia has been awarded a 14-year contract to manage the 24 household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) in Hampshire, including in Portsmouth and Southampton. The contract worth an estimated £70 million over its lifespan, will see the contractor manage an estimated 250,000 tonnes of material from the sites each year. The new contract will begin in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Mar 2016 Industry news Alu D&T Challenge: Winners announced! Winners of the 2015/16 Alu D&T Challenge, a design competition for 11 to 14 year olds, were announced at a prize-giving event at Thinktank Science Museum in Birmingham on 24 February. The national schools’ competition, linked to the Design and Technology curriculum at Key Stage 3, helps teach pupils about the material properties and sustainability […] Alupro · 1 Mar 2016 Industry news Retailers warn over recycling business plans Retailers have warned businesses which reprocess secondary material, such as used plastic bottles, that business plans for the processes need to be sustainable. The warning came in the wake of last year’s closure of the Closed Loop plant in Dagenham which suffered when the dairy industry stopped purchasing plastic bottles made from pellet produced at … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Mar 2016 Industry news Dorset to expand New Earth and Veolia deals Faced with more landfill closures, the Dorset Waste Partnership is to almost double the amount of refuse it sends to New Earth Solutions’ Canford mechanical biological treatment (MBT) plant and send more material to Veolia for energy recovery. And, also from April 2016, the group of seven councils is expected to transfer residual waste from … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Mar 2016 Industry news Brominated vegetable oil - Chemistry World Chemistry World · 1 Mar 2016 Global European Commission keeps wasting energy on “waste-to-energy” European Commission keeps wasting energy on “waste-to-energy” Ferran Rosa, Policy Officer In December 2015, the European Commission launched the Circular Economy Package, which aims to bring a major shift in waste management, product and process design policies and consumption patterns that minimize the landfill and incineration of waste. Less than two months after, on […] Zero Waste Europe · 29 Feb 2016 Industry news News in Brief (29/02/2016) With news on: Biffa’s homelesssness appeal; Aylesford CHP plant assets; AMCS route-mapping project, and WRAP and Scouts in recycling campaign. BBC to broadcast Biffa’s bins appeal Biffa will be taking to national television this week to highlight the danger of people sheltering in bins. On Tuesday (1 March) morning, the Victoria Derbyshire Show, which is … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Feb 2016 Global Zero waste press conference against landfill in Debagoiena, Basque Country Zero waste activists hold press conference in Debagoiena, in the Basque Country A group of citizens from Debagoiena held a press conference on February 16 in front of the Community of Debagoiena with the slogan “Landfill no!”. Among people who took part were members of Zero Waste Gipuzkoa (Zero Zabor). They emphasized that Debagoiena is […] Zero Waste Europe · 29 Feb 2016 Industry news Transforming municipal waste services Paul Frith, director of Frith Resource Management discusses how councils are responding to budgetary constraints on waste services. When cutting doesn’t cut the mustard, then transformation is required. The ‘graphs of doom’, the projections of (dissolving) central government funding mean that local authorities are, to use the iESE model terminology, ‘reviewing, remodelling and reinventing’ serv… letsrecycle.com News · 29 Feb 2016 Industry news Palmer-Jones voices Circular Economy concerns Suez UK chief executive David Palmer-Jones has warned that a lack of ‘pull measures’ to encourage recycling and reuse will mean that the EU’s Circular Economy package will not have the desired effect at stimulating greener practices. Mr Palmer-Jones, who is also the president of European waste management industry body FEAD, made the comments at … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Feb 2016 Industry news POWERDAY LONDON ABA PARTNERSHIP ENABLES BOXING CLUB REFURBISHMENT Through our London ABA partnership, Powerday has enabled the refurbishment of a South London Youth and Boxing Club which provides sport and youth engagement services for young people in Southwark. Th... Powerday · 29 Feb 2016 Industry news Circular Economy plans ‘could harm recycling rates’ Many of the EU’s top-performing nations on recycling could see their recycling rates decline if proposals outlined within the EU Commission’s Circular Economy package are brought into effect, a conference heard last week. Delegates from Germany, Austria and Sweden were among those who suggested recycling rates for their respective countries could reduce under the EU … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Feb 2016 Global Croatian municipalities adopt ‘Zero Waste 2020’ strategy Since 2006 the seven municipalities of the lower Međimurje (The City of Prelog and the municipalities of Kotoriba, Donja Dubrava, Donji Vidovec, Sveta Marija, Goričan and Donji Kraljevec) have been developing a joint waste management system. Organised by the municipally owned company Pre-Kom, waste has been separately collected in the region since 2007. With the […] Zero Waste Europe · 29 Feb 2016 Industry news Hertfordshire EfW decision imminent Construction of an alternative, smaller energy from waste plant for Hertfordshire will be assessed by county councillors this week as Veolia attempts to fulfil its £800 million contract with the authority. But, if the Revised Project Plan is ultimately rejected by council chiefs next month, Hertfordshire is set to terminate its arrangement with the waste … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Feb 2016 Council news Household waste recycling centres - Kirklees Council Kirklees Council · 28 Feb 2016 Council news Pay your Council Tax - Kirklees Council Kirklees Council · 27 Feb 2016 Research & science Solving global problems with MIT in Brazil MIT student travels to São Paulo to assist non-profit in recognizing and organizing waste collectors. MIT News — Recycling topic · 26 Feb 2016 Council news Make an online benefit claim - Exeter City Council Exeter Council · 26 Feb 2016 Industry news Ward Recycling wins Richmondshire and Hambleton contract Middlesbrough-based Ward Recycling is to process 8,000 tonnes of mixed dry recyclables a year on behalf of two North Yorkshire councils. Under the three-year deal, recyclables from Richmondshire and Hambleton district councils will be separated at the firm’s South Bank materials recycling facility (MRF). Recyclables from the two councils are already sent to Yorwaste’s network … Read More The po… letsrecycle.com News · 26 Feb 2016 Council news Parking - norwich.gov.uk Norwich Council · 26 Feb 2016 Council news Bins and recycling - Kirklees Council Kirklees Council · 26 Feb 2016 Council news Contact the council - Kirklees Council Kirklees Council · 26 Feb 2016 Industry news Rainbow Waste fined after worker crushed to death A Derbyshire-based waste and skip hire firm has been fined £136,000 after a worker was crushed to death by the bucket of a motorised loading shovel. Rainbow Waste Management was also ordered to pay £64,770 following the incident at its Swadlincote site on 7 June 2013. Derby Crown Court heard how 24-year-old Ashley Morris, known … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 Feb 2016 Global Zero Waste speeds up in Croatia after Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia Conference On Wednesday 24 February, representatives of the city of Prelog and six surrounding municipalities signed the European “Zero Waste 2020” strategy at a conference in Prelog organised by NGO Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia and the communal waste company PRE-KOM. In signing the strategy, the local authorities – which are already leaders in […] Zero Waste Europe · 26 Feb 2016 Industry news The Week in Waste – 26 February 2016 Take a look at the ‘Week in Waste’ video report. In this week’s report by letsrecycle.com, sponsored by Biffa, we outline some of the main news stories this week including the criticism levied at Defra and minister Rory Stewart over an apparent lack of focus on waste and recycling in Defra plans. And, we report on the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 Feb 2016