Recycling news: 2016

Policy & government CH10100 - Record Keeping: Overview GOV.UK · 15 Jan 2016 Policy & government CH13200 - Record Keeping: How records may be preserved: Conditions and exceptions GOV.UK · 15 Jan 2016 Policy & government CH10300 - Record Keeping: General rules GOV.UK · 15 Jan 2016 Policy & government CH10400 - Record Keeping: Who is a person GOV.UK · 15 Jan 2016 Industry news Viridor’s Heathfield landfill to close after 35 years A landfill site in South Devon received its final waste delivery today (15 January) after 35 years in operation. The Viridor-run Heathfield landfill in Newton Abbot has provided a disposal outlet for over 8 million tonnes of waste from local authorities and businesses across Devon since 1980. The site has also generated over £5 million … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jan 2016 Policy & government CH83134 - Penalties for inaccuracies: how to process the penalty: suspension of a penalty: circumstances in which you might suspend a penalty: considering the indicators of likely future compliance GOV.UK · 15 Jan 2016 Policy & government CH81141 - Penalties for Inaccuracies: Types of inaccuracy: Correction of errors for indirect taxes GOV.UK · 15 Jan 2016 Policy & government CH81142 - Penalties for Inaccuracies: Types of inaccuracy: Correction of errors for indirect taxes - monetary limits GOV.UK · 15 Jan 2016 Industry news BANES seeks temporary staff as strike continues Bath & North East Somerset council (BANES) is now looking for temporary and casual contract waste collection staff to help clear the area’s uncollected recycling and food waste because of a strike over pay at its contractor Kier. The council call for extra staff comes as it bids to reduce the backlog by putting its own … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jan 2016 Industry news ‘Spiralling costs’ see Falkirk take recycling in-house Councillors in Falkirk have voted in favour of plans to end an interim recycling contract with waste giant Suez, after it was claimed that the costs being paid by the local authority were ‘unsustainable’. Instead the council is to purchase £200,000 worth of sorting equipment and take on 10 extra staff at an annual cost … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jan 2016 Policy & government Infographic: Future flood risk in the UK More action is needed to help the UK adapt to climate change, alongside significant new investment, if we're to address the increasing risk of flooding due to rising global temperatures, a new CCC infographic shows. Climate Change Committee · 15 Jan 2016 Industry news Birmingham recycling wagons ‘too wide’ for streets Collection vehicles used to empty the new wheeled recycling bins in Birmingham are “too wide” to fit down some streets, it has emerged. Speaking at a Birmingham city council Q&A session this month, councillor Lisa Trickett, cabinet member for sustainability, admitted that the split-bodied vehicles had been procured on poor business advice. She added that … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jan 2016 Council news Outside bodies - Gloucester City Council Gloucester Council · 14 Jan 2016 Council news Councillor Sajid Patel - Gloucester City Council Gloucester Council · 14 Jan 2016 Council news Browse forward plans - Gloucester City Council Gloucester Council · 14 Jan 2016 Industry news Plant and vehicle round-up (14/01/2016) With news on; Hadley Recycling installs Poundfield wall; Remondis adds to collection capacity; Suez recycles vehicles for internal hire; WLWA selects Integrated Waste Data system, and; Fulcrum launches biogas service Hadley Recycling installs retaining wall Hadley Recycling & Waste Management has installed a retaining wall system at its new £1.5 million recycling centre in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jan 2016 Industry news Veolia supports plastic bottle light innovation VIDEO REPORT: Veolia, the UK’s largest waste management company, has given its support to an innovative project which aims to bring light to deprived areas of the world through two innovative approaches involving plastic bottles. Launching the company’s support for ‘Liter of Light’ at London’s University of the Arts near King’s Cross station yesterday, 14 January, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jan 2016 Industry news Metamorphosis Series, Lucy Connier, Year 13 Student In the Autumn term of 2015 TRAID Education visited Raines Foundation School students to launch the start of their ‘Metamorphosis’... TRAID · 14 Jan 2016 Industry news Textile recycling industry predicts difficult year due to wet weather Textile recyclers have said they are facing “increasing pressures” as a result of the heavy rainfall in the UK over recent weeks. Speaking from northwest England, which has seen high levels of rainfall, Phil Geller, director of Manchester-based textile recycling firm I&G Cohen, said he considered that the extreme weather has affected the public’s ability … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jan 2016 Industry news EU referendum and markets shape packaging outlook Global commodity markets, revised targets and uncertainty surrounding the EU referendum are all expected to shape UK packaging recycling over the course of 2016. This was the message from compliance schemes, reprocessors and the chair of the Advisory Committee on Packaging, who together have painted a picture of the market trends and regulatory changes the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jan 2016 Industry news News in brief (13/01/2016) With news on: Bulgarian RDF contract; Recoup OPRL announcement; Veolia biomass contract; Biogen Christmas waste processing, and; BPI and Bunzl donate to Carlisle flood appeal. Niramax secures Bulgarian RDF contract Hartlepool-based waste management firm Niramax Group, has signed a three-year refuse derived fuel (RDF) supply deal with Probio Energy Limited to send material to Bulgaria, … Read Mo… letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jan 2016 Global Walgreens Boots alliance letter on Krill The post Walgreens Boots alliance letter on Krill appeared first on Changing Markets . Changing Markets Foundation · 13 Jan 2016 Global Coalition letter to Wallgreens Boots Alliance on Antarctic krill The post Coalition letter to Wallgreens Boots Alliance on Antarctic krill appeared first on Changing Markets . Changing Markets Foundation · 13 Jan 2016 Industry news Whitham Mills supplies Veolia with tenth installation Waste management machinery designer and manufacturer Whitham Mills has installed a conveyor system and baling plant for Veolia at the company’s materials recycling facility and transfer station at Armoury Road, Birmingham. The 25 metre conveyor and Godswill baling system is the fourth installation Whitham Mills has carried out for Veolia in recent years, and the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jan 2016 Industry news Environment Agency clarifies flood waste position Household items such as carpets and furniture are ‘unlikely to be classed as hazardous’ in the event of flood damage, the Environment Agency has confirmed. And, landfilling is not the only waste disposal option available to authorities disposing of the material during clear-up operations. The clarification follows some questions from waste operators and local authorities … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jan 2016 Council news North Lanarkshire - eplanning.northlanarkshire.gov.uk North Lanarkshire Council · 13 Jan 2016 Industry news East Devon recycling trial continues ahead of contract decision East Devon council will continue its trial of three-weekly residual waste collections in several wards as it gears up to announce the preferred bidder for a new seven-year waste and recycling services contract next month. A report to the council’s cabinet last week (January 6) hailed the “great success” of the trial involving 1,800 households … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jan 2016 Industry news ISWA calls for clarity on ‘biodegradable’ plastics An international waste body has called for improved awareness about the properties of different types of biodegradable plastics, and how these affect the processing of organic wastes. According to a ‘key issue paper’ issued by the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) last month, confusion exists over the range of ‘environmentally friendly’ alternatives to traditional polymers … Read Mor… letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jan 2016 Industry news Grundon wastes no time in sponsoring Forest Green Rovers’ U15 The post Grundon wastes no time in sponsoring Forest Green Rovers’ U15 appeared first on Grundon . Grundon Waste Management · 13 Jan 2016 Industry news UK lags behind Europe on plastics packaging The UK lagged behind some of the top-performing EU member states in the amount of plastics packaging recycled during 2013, latest data from the European Commission suggests. Figures published via the Commission’s data website Eurostat show that the UK recorded a plastics packaging recycling rate of 31.6% in 2013, compared to an average of 37.3% … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Jan 2016 Policy & government CIRD63210 - Land Remediation Relief: Qualifying Land Remediation Expenditure: Landfill - additional costs GOV.UK · 12 Jan 2016 Policy & government CIRD61450 - Land Remediation Relief: What is "land in a contaminated state"? Natural contaminants: Japanese Knotweed - qualifying methods GOV.UK · 12 Jan 2016 Policy & government CIRD61515 - Land Remediation Relief: What is "land in a contaminated state"? Relevant Contaminated Land Remediation: Methods of remediation - Dig and dump GOV.UK · 12 Jan 2016 Policy & government CIRD63110 - Land Remediation Relief: Qualifying Land Remediation Expenditure: Landfill Tax GOV.UK · 12 Jan 2016 Policy & government CIRD61590 - Land Remediation Relief: What is "land in a contaminated state"? Relevant Contaminated Land Remediation: Excluded methods of remediation GOV.UK · 12 Jan 2016 Policy & government CIRD61070 - Land Remediation Relief: What is "land in a contaminated state"?: Dig and dump GOV.UK · 12 Jan 2016 Policy & government CIRD60025 - Land Remediation Relief: Outline: From 1 April 2009 - Arsenic, radon and Japanese knotweed GOV.UK · 12 Jan 2016 Policy & government CIRD61020 - Land Remediation Relief: What is "land in a contaminated state"?: Japanese Knotweed - change of view GOV.UK · 12 Jan 2016 Policy & government CIRD61015 - Land Remediation Relief: What is "land in a contaminated state"?: Japanese Knotweed GOV.UK · 12 Jan 2016 Industry news UK waste policy ‘unclear’ in post-EU scenario An exit from the EU could potentially lead to more ambitious waste legislation for the UK – but also risk destabilising cross-boundary relationships, the Environmental Audit Committee has heard. This was the message from environmental lawyer Angus Evers, of London law firm King & Wood Mallesons, who was speaking at a session of the Committee’s … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Jan 2016