Recycling news: 2019

Council news Council Tax - Blaby District Council Blaby Council · 12 Mar 2019 Global “Solid Waste Management is an Integral Part of Each and Every Effort for a Sustainable Future” Read the President of ISWA's speech at the side event titled, ???Innovative and Locally Appropriate Waste Management Solutions for a Pollution-free Planet??? on the 11th of March, the opening day of UNEA 4 in Nairobi, Kenya. ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 12 Mar 2019 Council news Create an account - Lewisham Council Lewisham Council · 12 Mar 2019 Council news Discounts and Exemptions - Blaby District Council Blaby Council · 12 Mar 2019 Council news Local Plan - Blaby District Council Blaby Council · 12 Mar 2019 Council news Extra Help and Support - Blaby District Council Blaby Council · 12 Mar 2019 Council news Leisure, Health and Community - Blaby District Council Blaby Council · 12 Mar 2019 Council news Jobs and Careers - Blaby District Council Blaby Council · 12 Mar 2019 Council news Business support and advice - Merton Council Merton Council · 12 Mar 2019 Industry news Reconomy launches social value programme Outsourcing waste and recycling business, Reconomy, has launched the ‘Reconomy Social Value Programme (RSVP)’, which it says will help the company develop a “value driven approach to sustainability”. The scheme will aim to support the company’s focus on “building valuable community relationships”. Reconomy says the three main strands of the programme are to ‘bridge gaps’ … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2019 Industry news Biffa ties up £25m SWRNewstar acquisition Waste management firm Biffa has today (12 March) announced that it has acquired the outsourcing company Specialist Waste Recycling Limited – SWRNewstar – in a deal worth more than £25.8 million. SWRNewstar was formed in 2017 through a merger of the waste brokerage businesses Specialist Waste Recycling, based in Alton, and Buckingham-based New Star Environmental … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2019 Industry news Contract awarded for Scottish EfW facility A Clugston-CNIM joint venture has been lined up to construct a new 216,000 tonnes per-year capacity energy from waste plant at Grangemouth in Falkirk, Scotland. The facility, which will be the 12th to be jointly delivered by the Anglo-French businesses, is being built on behalf of a consortium involving Brockwell Energy, Green Investment Group (GIG) … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2019 Industry news Canterbury considers in-house waste service Canterbury city council is to consider plans to move its waste service in-house once its current contract with Serco expires in 2021. A report to be considered by councillors this week explained that despite a small difference in costs between the two service options, a move in-house instead of re-tendering would enable the council to … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2019 Industry news BP lobbied Trump administration to roll back key US climate rules The post BP lobbied Trump administration to roll back key US climate rules appeared first on Unearthed . Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 12 Mar 2019 Council news Mailing list - East Devon District Council East Devon Council · 12 Mar 2019 Industry news Beyond technological change: Improving the efficiency of the transport system Will Tricker, Policy Officer at the Aldersgate Group, argues that to decarbonise the transport sector, improving the overall efficiency of the transport system will be just as important as investing in new technologies and infrastructure. Aldersgate Group · 11 Mar 2019 Council news Colchester Homelessness Pledge Submission - Colchester City Council Colchester Council · 11 Mar 2019 Policy & government Penny Mordaunt doubles support for plastic recycling International Development Secretary doubles UK aid support for plastic recycling in poor nations. The announcement was made alongside Sir David Attenborough. GOV.UK · 11 Mar 2019 Policy & government Penny Mordaunt doubles support for plastic recycling: speech In a speech in London today, the International Development Secretary, Penny Mordaunt, doubled UK aid support for plastic recycling in poor nations. GOV.UK · 11 Mar 2019 Industry news Come and meet us at RWM Exhibition 2019 – the UK’s Largest Recycling & Waste Management Exhibition & Conference RWM is the UK’s Largest Recycling & Waste Management Exhibition & Conference. And we’ll be at RWM Exhibition 2019! Well, at least Anna will be! Held in Birmingham NEC, the show welcomes over 20,000 visitors who are working to a more resource efficient future. Know what you want to go already? Book your free… Zero Waste Week · 11 Mar 2019 Industry news Company owner fined after hiring ‘rogue waste collector’ A skip hire company owner who was “duped by a rogue waste collector” has been ordered to pay a total of nearly £25,000 in fines and costs after waste was found dumped at sites around Essex. According to the Environment Agency, Robert Walker, who owned and operated Bob’s Skips in Basildon, Essex, failed to check … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2019 Industry news Plans outlined for Cheshire gasification plant A waste gasification facility with the capacity to process up to 175,000 tonnes of waste wood and refuse derived fuel is under development at the Protos energy hub near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire. Output from the plant would be used to fuel low carbon HGVs and buses, with an output of up to 320gWh of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2019 Policy & government Chemical Weapons Chemical weapons are prohibited, however recent chemical weapons attacks in Malaysia, Syria, Iraq and the UK have raised concerns about their use. In the UK in 2018, four people were taken seriously ill and one person died following exposure to a Novichok, a type of nerve agent. The UK Government recently announced £11m to strengthen the UK’s chemical defences and highlighted chemical, biologic… POST (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology) · 11 Mar 2019 Global Belgium Inhabitants: 11,6 mio Area: 30.528 km2 NATIONAL WASTE SYSTEM – GENERAL LEGISLATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE Authorities for waste management and organic waste management (if different), and key contacts: Belgium is divided in three regions: Flanders (FLA), Wallonia (WAL) and Brussels (BRU). As waste management is a regional authority, each of these regions have their [...] European Bioplastics News · 11 Mar 2019 Industry news Alupro: Response to the publication of Green Alliance report 11 March 2019 We welcome the Green Alliance report ‘Closing the loop: Four steps towards 100% aluminium packaging recycling’; it reconfirms the conclusions of the modelling that Resource Futures conducted on our behalf, which demonstrated that aluminium packaging could achieve high recycling rates under a reformed packaging system. The report emphasises the importance of separating […] The post… Alupro · 11 Mar 2019 Industry news Council deal looks to end Birmingham waste strike Strike action involving Birmingham refuse workers has been temporarily called off after the council tabled an offer it hopes will end the dispute. Workers in Birmingham represented by Unite have been in a dispute with the council since December 2018 over alleged payments made to workers who didn’t take part in separate strike action during … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2019 Industry news Waste reforms ‘could push aluminium recycling’ Environmental think tank Green Alliance has called for all aluminium packaging to be included in proposals for a ‘core’ set of materials collected for recycling by councils. A report issued by the organisation today (11 March) has claimed that as much as 97% of aluminium packaging could be recovered if cans are included in a … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2019 Council news Your Councillors by Ward - East Devon District Council East Devon Council · 11 Mar 2019 Council news Contact details - East Devon District Council East Devon Council · 11 Mar 2019 Council news Housing Overview and Scrutiny Committee (formerly Housing Review Board) - East Devon District Council East Devon Council · 11 Mar 2019 Council news Committee details - Asset Management Forum - East Devon District Council East Devon Council · 11 Mar 2019 Council news Committee details - Licensing and Enforcement Committee - East Devon District Council East Devon Council · 11 Mar 2019 Council news Committee details - Strategic Planning Committee - East Devon District Council East Devon Council · 11 Mar 2019 Council news Committee details - Audit and Governance Committee - East Devon District Council East Devon Council · 11 Mar 2019 Council news Development Management Committee - East Devon District Council East Devon Council · 11 Mar 2019 Policy & government Mrs J Randerson v FCC Recycling (UK) Ltd: 1806303/2017 Employment Tribunal decision. GOV.UK · 11 Mar 2019 Global Too Precious for the Bin: a Recipe for Food Waste Prevention! Too Precious for the Bin: a Recipe for Food Waste Prevention! With the recent update of the Waste Framework Directive, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have established a new definition of “food waste”. Indeed, food waste is any food, and inedible parts of food, removed from the food supply chain […] Zero Waste Europe · 11 Mar 2019 Industry news News in brief (11/03/2019) With news on: Urbaser begins recycling services in West Kent; Eunomia to carry out Scottish collections appraisals; Bath steps up HWRC plans; and, Nottinghamshire groups share recycling fund Urbaser begins recycling services in West Kent Urbaser is beginning work on contract for recycling, waste collection and street cleaning services contract for two Kent councils this … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2019 Industry news Serco launches ‘respect and protect’ campaign Services firm Serco has launched a campaign in partnership with trade unions to clamp down on “violence, aggression and abuse” directed at its staff. The ‘Respect and Protect’ campaign was launched at Serco’s Environmental Services depot last week, as part of its contract with Hammersmith and Fulham council, in South West London. The company says … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2019 Industry news Finland reintroduces MEWP training - KHL Group Demolition & Recycling International (KHL) · 11 Mar 2019