Recycling news: 2019

Industry news The resources and waste strategy in detail: EPR and DRS The industry discusses the government's proposals on extended producer responsibility and a deposit return scheme Der Beitrag The resources and waste strategy in detail: EPR and DRS erschien zuerst auf United Kingdom (EN) . ERP UK (European Recycling Platform) · 10 Mar 2019 Global Finland Inhabitants: 5,6 mio Area: 338.424 km2 NATIONAL WASTE SYSTEM – GENERAL LEGISLATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE Authorities for waste management and organic waste management (if different), and key contacts: The ministry of environment is the competent authority concerning waste management. The municipalities are responsible for organizing collection and treatment. The Finnish Environmental Institute is … European Bioplastics News · 10 Mar 2019 Research & science Study - UCL | University College London UCL News · 9 Mar 2019 Industry news Rebecca Pow announced as new chair of the APPG on Electric Vehicles Rebecca Pow MP has been elected as the new Chair of the APPG on Electric Vehicles after being nominated by former Chair, the Rt Hon Dame Cheryl Gillan MP. Dame Cheryl announced that she would be stepping down as Chair after successfully establishing the group and supporting its membership growth to over 40 parliamentarians over the past year. She will continue to be involved in the APPG in her … REA (Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology) · 8 Mar 2019 Council news Waste and Recycling Centres - Pembrokeshire County Council Pembrokeshire Council · 8 Mar 2019 Global Germany Inhabitants: 84,2 mio Area: 357.376 km2 NATIONAL WASTE SYSTEM – GENERAL LEGISLATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE Authorities for waste management and organic waste management (if different), and key contacts: BMUV - Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection States’ environmental ministries Municipalities, they determine which input materials are all… European Bioplastics News · 8 Mar 2019 Industry news Critical dilemmas in the Resources and Waste Strategy debate OPINION: Jacob Hayler, executive director of the Environmental Services Association (ESA) picks out some of the key areas for discussion from the government’s Resources and Waste Strategy. Like London Buses you wait for ages and then four turn up… Finally, the consultations for Consistency, DRS, EPR and a plastic tax are out. Releasing the consultations … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Mar 2019 Industry news The reason for the success of the European Strategy for Plastics Vice President, European Commissioner for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, Jyrki Katainen hails the success of the European Strategy for Plastics thanks to the transparency and full involvement of all stakeholders. Open Access Government — Environment · 8 Mar 2019 Industry news Headline sponsors confirmed for National Refuse Championships Imperial Commercials and DAF have been announced as the headline sponsors for the eagerly awaited National Refuse Championships 2019. The charity event, which takes place from 14-15 June at the Beach Lawns, Weston-super-Mare, brings together waste and recycling collection crews from across the UK to take part a series of races. In 2018, the event … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Mar 2019 Industry news Terex announces £12 million Derry plant investment Lifting and material processing machinery manufacturer Terex has announced plans to build a £12 million production facility in Derry, Northern Ireland, which it hopes will be operational this year. The company says the facility will focus on the design, manufacture and development of its Terex Ecotec shredding line, as well as its mobile conveying systems. … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Mar 2019 Industry news Agency carries out day of action at illegal waste sites Environment Agency officers undertook a series of visits to suspected illegal waste site across Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire as part of a sting operation yesterday (7 March). The Agency said it was the biggest operation of its kind ever carried out in a single day across the region. It confirmed today that no arrests were made … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Mar 2019 Industry news SELCHP reaches 25 years in operation The South East London Combined Heat and Power (SELCHP) facility, based in Lewisham, has reached its 25th year in operation. The 440,000 tonnes per year facility became operational in February 1994 and is operated by Veolia Environmental Services – taking in waste from London councils including Lewisham, Greenwich, Westminster and Bromley. According to Veolia, the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Mar 2019 Global Periods: time to ditch the disposables Reusable and toxic-free menstrual products can empower women while fighting plastic pollution Are we ready to tackle the truths about disposable tampons? On average a woman menstruates for around 8.2 years of her lifetime, so we need to think about the inconvenient truths of period products – and why not use International Women’s Day as […] Zero Waste Europe · 8 Mar 2019 Industry news Generation symbiocene - The Ecologist The Ecologist · 8 Mar 2019 Council news Antrim and Newtownabbey Council - Antrim & Newtownabbey Borough Council Antrim and Newtownabbey Council · 7 Mar 2019 Global Zero Waste Cashel wins silver at the LAMA Awards for Best Waste Management At the annual LAMA All Ireland Community & Council Awards 2019, our member’s organisation VOICE walked away with a silver award in the Best Waste Management category. Their programme “Towards Zero Waste Cashel” was selected among 150 entrants and 100 projects presented during the night. The award-winning project, which lasted from 2017 to July 2018, […] Zero Waste Europe · 7 Mar 2019 Industry news India moves to end plastic waste imports India’s government has introduced changes to legislation that look to have effectively banned the import of plastic waste into the country. In a statement issued yesterday (6 March), India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced amendments to its Hazardous Waste (Management & Transboundary Movement) Rules – aimed at ‘strengthening the environmentally sound management … Re… letsrecycle.com News · 7 Mar 2019 Industry news Councils agree on preferred bidder for Aberdeen EfW Three Scottish councils have today (7 March) confirmed their preferred bidder for a contract to build and operate a 150,000-tonnes per year energy from waste plant in Aberdeen. A consortium involving the construction firm Acciona and waste firm Indaver are in line for the ‘Ness Energy Project Residual Waste Treatment’ contract, which is being procured … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Mar 2019 Industry news Theo Colborn: a pioneer in identifying the problems caused by endocrine disrupting chemicals This International Women’s Day, we want to highlight the work of one woman in particular who had a significant impact on the field of endocrine disrupting chemicals, Dr Theo Colborn (1927-2014). A trained pharmacist, Colborn had an interest in wildlife from an early age. After completing her Master’s degree in science in 1981, she was […] CHEM Trust · 7 Mar 2019 Global Italy Inhabitants: 59,1 mio Area: 301.3382 NATIONAL WASTE SYSTEM – GENERAL LEGISLATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE Authorities for waste management and organic waste management (if different), and key contacts: Responsibility for waste management in Italy lies with the municipalities and/or consortia of municipalities. The national association that deals with the processing of organic waste is the [...] European Bioplastics News · 7 Mar 2019 Industry news Privatising the seas: how the UK turned fishing rights into a commodity The post Privatising the seas: how the UK turned fishing rights into a commodity appeared first on Unearthed . Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 7 Mar 2019 Industry news WasteAid’s Mike Webster delivers Kit Strange memorial lecture Much of the world’s population has yet to wake up to the environmental damage caused by poor waste management, the chief executive of the charity WasteAid, Mike Webster, has said. Mr Webster made the comments whilst delivering the Kit Strange Memorial Lecture to invited delegates in Westminster yesterday (March 6) – in honour of the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Mar 2019 Industry news Geminor acquires Norwegian biofuel business Waste fuels specialist, Geminor, has acquired Norwegian biofuel producer Bøn Biobrensel AS. According to the firm, the move strengthens its position in the Nordic secondary fuels market. Geminor chief executive, Kjetil Vikingstad, and general manager of Bøn Biobrensel AS, Johan Peter Olö, recently signed an agreement that secures Geminor 100% of the shares in the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Mar 2019 Industry news Strategy and policy direction on Letsrecycle Live agenda With the inaugural Letsrecycle Live event gathering pace, highlights of conference sessions during the two-day show have been released. Letsrecycle Live, which features live and static equipment, conference theatres and networking events takes place at Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry on 22-23 May. Commodities, local authority topics and keynote speakers feature on the conference agenda. Speakers… letsrecycle.com News · 7 Mar 2019 Policy & government BIM42520 - Specific deductions: administration: interest, penalties and surcharges on UK taxes GOV.UK · 7 Mar 2019 Industry news Contractor exits Hull Energy Works project The developers of a 240,000 tonne-capacity waste gasification plant in Hull has ended the contract with an engineering company on the project citing ‘significant delays’ to the facility. Energy Works (Hull) Ltd terminated the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with MW High Tech Projects UK for the development of the plant on a brownfield … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Mar 2019 Global A New Paradigm for Plastics BERLIN – We have long known that the accumulation of plastic in the world’s landfills and oceans represents a growing environmental risk. More recently, we have come to understand that plastic poses an urgent – even deadly – threat to public health, too. And yet, global efforts to address the plastic crisis remain consistently focused […] Break Free From Plastic · 7 Mar 2019 Global Year’s worth of sachet use in the Philippines can cover entire Metro Manila 1 foot deep in plastic waste FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Manila, Philippines (March 7, 2019) ---Filipinos use more than 163 million plastic sachet packets, 48 million sando bags and 45 million labo bags daily. These numbers were revealed in a new report released today by environmental organization Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA). The group contends that single-use disposable plastic is the […] Break Free From Plastic · 7 Mar 2019 Council news Placing Request Form PC1a - West Dunbartonshire Council West Dunbartonshire Council · 7 Mar 2019 Global Trader Joe’s Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics Nationwide Following Customer Petition As the world suffocates from its plastic addiction, a growing number of businesses are stepping up to the plate to reduce their plastic waste. Most recently, Trader Joe's announced that it will be taking steps to cut back on plastic and other packaging waste after a petition launched by Greenpeace harnessed nearly 100,000 signatures. At the end of last year, the […] Break Free From Plastic · 7 Mar 2019 Global The European forest-based value chain issues position on forest management and sustainable investments In the context of the European Commission’s work on developing a classification system for sustainable investments, CEPI and the European organisations representing the European forest-based bioeconomy value chain have issued a joint statement on the role of forest management in the proposed taxonomy regulation. The statement notably addresses the value of sustainable and active forest […] CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 6 Mar 2019 Industry news MPs question strength of post-Brexit green watchdog MPs have questioned whether the government’s proposed Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) will have the autonomy and power to hold ministers to account over environmental laws. Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Defra undersecretary Therese Coffey faced questioning from the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee this morning on the OEP – which will replace the … Read More The po… letsrecycle.com News · 6 Mar 2019 Industry news GSCOP - Morrisons Corporate Morrisons media centre · 6 Mar 2019 Industry news Cuadrilla’s air monitoring equipment malfunctioned during fracking methane surge The post Cuadrilla’s air monitoring equipment malfunctioned during fracking methane surge appeared first on Unearthed . Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 6 Mar 2019 Industry news Glasgow Wood Recycling Shortlisted for Sustainability Award Congratulations to Glasgow Wood Recycling, who have been shortlisted for a Sustainability Award from the Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards, an initiative from the Citi Foundation, the charitable arm of the investment banking firm Citigroup. Community Wood Recycling · 6 Mar 2019 Industry news Biffa boosted by ‘stabilised’ municipal division Biffa plc has announced that a boost in its recovery & treatment division – and ‘improving’ commodity prices – has seen trading in the 2018/19 financial year progress on target. And, the company reported that performance in its municipal division had ‘stabilised’, following what it had described as a “competitive market” in 2017/18. The waste management … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 6 Mar 2019 Industry news Powerday’s boxing champion turns coach to help disadvantaged pupils As part of the Powerday Foundation’s work with London Boxing, Powerday’s Site Service Manager, Sam Cox, has been delivering a boxing and mentoring programme to disadvantaged pupils in various circ... Powerday · 6 Mar 2019 Industry news DS Smith sells plastic packaging business Packaging manufacturing and recycling firm DS Smith has announced the sale of its plastics division to the US private equity firm Olympus Partners for around £450 million. The plastics division comprises product manufacturing lines in flexible plastics, rigid plastics and foam products, including food and beverage, pharmaceutical and transit packaging products. The company described the … Read … letsrecycle.com News · 6 Mar 2019 Industry news 2018 packaging targets met, but ‘challenge ahead’ Packaging experts have welcomed the news that recycling targets for 2018 look to have been met, but have warned that 2019 targets could be more challenging. The comments come following the release of the 2018 Q4 packaging data, published on the National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD) website this week. The provisional data has suggested that … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 6 Mar 2019 Industry news Waste Expectations: Trash Talk with Businesses Local businesses, community groups and interested members of society come together to discuss options and solutions to the problems caused by disposable plastic and polystyrene waste from takeaway food packaging. Find out more about the initiatives planned in and around North Berwick. Fidra · 6 Mar 2019