Recycling news: 2017

Industry news Life Changing Cotton in Ethiopia TRAID has funded Pesticide Action Network’s (PAN UK) work since 2009 to support cotton farmers to reduce and stop using... TRAID · 10 Oct 2017 Industry news RDF and SRF round-up (10/10/2017) Andusia Recovered Fuels has secured a contract with German energy-from-waste plant, N+P has extended SRF supply with Cypriot cement company and Re-gen Waste has been recognised for a local award. Andusia Refuse derived fuel (RDF) exporter Andusia has signed an agreement with MHKW Rothensee to export waste to the German company’s plant, located in Magdeburg, Germany. … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Oct 2017 Industry news Offsite sorting by Biffa pushes Dunelm to 90% recycling Furnishing and homeware retailer Dunelm has announced a 90% recycling rate as a result of working with waste management firm Biffa over the past five years. Biffa said that overall 92% of the retailer’s waste was now diverted from landfill with recycling at a “direct rate of 81%” with offsite sorting adding a further 9%. … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Oct 2017 Industry news Mills to join Iona and new director at Amey Two senior appointments have been announced within the waste management sector with Peter Mills, managing director of Panda (UK), moving to private equity firm Iona Capital and Amey appointing Simon Houlahan as southern business director. Peter Mills, who is well-known within the organics sector, is to leave Panda next month (November 2017) and join London-based … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Oct 2017 Industry news Cory wins Tower Hamlets contract Cory Riverside Energy has announced that it has won a contract to provide waste management services to the London borough of Tower Hamlets, which covers residual waste CA site. The energy from waste company takes over the work from Veolia which held the contract with the authority since 2006 (see letsrecycle.com). Running from October 2017 … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Oct 2017 Industry news Nisa Board Recommends Co-op Group Offer To Nisa Members - Co-operative Group Co-op media newsroom · 10 Oct 2017 Industry news Fashion Tech Lab Paris, October 2nd - Worn Again were 1 of 6 new sustainable technologies showcased at the Fashion Tech Lab launch. The event was hosted by Miroslava Duma and Stella McCartney at the Google Arts & Culture lab during Paris Fashion Week. Click the photo... Worn Again Technologies news · 9 Oct 2017 Industry news Agency reaffirms ‘topsoil use’ for PAS100 compost The Environment Agency has issued fresh guidance on ‘manufactured topsoil’, which is likely to be of benefit to producers of compost to the PAS100 standard. The guidance, published on 6 October 2017, has been issued as ‘Regulatory Position Statement 190’ and clarifies issues around the “Use of manufactured topsoil”. It follows on from a similar … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Oct 2017 Industry news Fortress invests in £5m recycling facility Midlands-based Fortress Recycling and Resource Management has invested £5 million in a materials processing facility in Warwick. The facility on the Heathcote Industrial Estate has been operational for two weeks and allows for paper, cardboard, glass, plastics and aluminium cans to be sorted and recycled. Fortress’s investment in the processing facility has been supported by … Read More The pos… letsrecycle.com News · 9 Oct 2017 Industry news People news round-up (06/10/2017) With news on: Chris Oldfield retiring from UNTHA UK; Tsuji takes over at Hitachi CEO; MBA Polymer’s two managers; and Riverside’s service engineer Chris Oldfield retires as UNTHA UK chairman Chris Oldfield – chairman of waste shredding specialist UNTHA UK – has announced his retirement from the recycling industry following a career of almost 50 … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Oct 2017 Industry news Call for Evidence on Deposit Return Scheme The post Call for Evidence on Deposit Return Scheme appeared first on Clarity . Clarity Environmental · 9 Oct 2017 Industry news Procter & Gamble to launch ocean plastic bottle Multinational manufacturer Procter & Gamble has announced that it will sell a limited edition washing-up liquid bottle made from 100% recycled plastic and ocean plastic in 2018. The plastic bottle, branded as, ‘Fairy Ocean Plastic’, was created in partnership with American recycler TerraCycle and will be available to buy in 2018 to raise awareness of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 9 Oct 2017 Industry news Renewi Nederland: Een toonaangevend waste-to-product bedrijf - Renewi Renewi · 9 Oct 2017 Industry news #LiveMoreWithLess month – 9 days in How is your #LiveMoreWithLess month going? I admit it was tougher than I thought for the first week. I found myself going to buy something and had to stop and ask “Do I really need this?” And on a couple of occasions I’d come home with something before asking the question. ( A cafetiere to… Zero Waste Week · 9 Oct 2017 Industry news Archives for October 9, 2017 - Food Manufacture Food Manufacture · 9 Oct 2017 Industry news Engineering an Answer to Waste Management Burden Another rise in the Landfill Tax means that it now costs £86.10 to dispose of one ton of waste in one of the UK’s burdened landfill sites. Annual tax hikes, and other Government efforts to boost industrial recycling and materials reuse, have been designed to persuade companies to tighten up the way they manage their […] CSG (Cleansing Service Group) · 8 Oct 2017 Industry news Report: Prevent Marine Plastic Litter – Now! We were involved in producing this report from the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) Marine Litter Taskforce on how the global waste and resource management sector can better tackle marine litter. Resource Futures · 7 Oct 2017 Industry news ISWA marine litter report 7 October 2017 Our Principal Consultant, David Lerpiniere, has recently been involved in developing the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) Marine Litter Report. Resource Futures · 7 Oct 2017 Industry news WRAP cartons collections guidance 7 October 2017 Our work on the Cartons Collections Guidance forms part of WRAP’s work towards greater consistency says Ed Cook, Senior Consultant at Resource Futures, a key element being that all households will be able to recycle a common set of materials. Resource Futures · 7 Oct 2017 Industry news Log in - Eco-Schools Scotland - Keep Scotland Beautiful Keep Scotland Beautiful · 6 Oct 2017 Industry news Equipment and services round-up (6/10/2017) With news of a new range of shredders from Blue Group; an efficient solution to recover aluminium from Fercell; and Seligo waste transaction platform launched. New range of Doppstadt shredders from Blue Group A new range of high speed shredders from Doppstadt has been unveiled for the UK and are described as having “more power … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 6 Oct 2017 Industry news Powerday mobilises on huge fly tip site in West London Unfortunately, most people will have witnessed how fly tipping impacts local areas, particularly in secluded spots. But the fly tipping recently discovered just off the Colnbrook by-pass - close by to... Powerday · 6 Oct 2017 Industry news Judges go bananas over banana skin curry Last weekend I was invited to take part in Low Carbon West Oxford’s ‘Ready, Steady, Cook’ style competition at their ‘Beet the Waste’ 10th anniversary celebrations at Tap Social in Oxford. My fellow competitors were cooking professionals, Christina from Relish and Sandra and Marie from Waste2Taste. I hadn’t realised that I was supposed to be… Zero Waste Week · 6 Oct 2017 Industry news Ireland’s PandaGreen acquires WSR Recycling Irish waste business PandaGreen Ltd has made its second acquisition in the UK with the take-over of WSR Recycling, the businesses announced at the end of last week (6 October). The Cheshire-based company operating in north western England, will continue to be known as and trade as WSR Recycling, with services continuing as normal from … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 6 Oct 2017 Industry news ERP marks 10 years with WEEE report The European Recycling Platform (ERP) UK has published a report to look back over the last 10 years of waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling (WEEE), since the UK WEEE Directive was introduced. It has also been 10 years since ERP started operating in the UK. ERP’s report looks at the decade which it said … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 6 Oct 2017 Industry news Fire Safety Comes First at CSG Flagship Site The tragic Grenfell Tower disaster has focused attention as never before on the critical, life-saving importance of fire safety procedures, whether in domestic or work premises. Industrial sites are rightly expected to maintain the highest levels of fire safety, and yet fire and rescue teams attend tens of thousands of fires in non-domestic buildings every […] CSG (Cleansing Service Group) · 5 Oct 2017 Industry news Faulty brakes contributed to death of Cawleys’ driver The death of a Cawleys’ driver in 2014 after he became trapped under a waste collection vehicle he was operating, was recorded under a narrative verdict at an inquest which concluded today (5 October). The jury found that the death of the driver, Peter Coleman, 54, who was working alone, was caused by an accident … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 5 Oct 2017 Industry news Agency secures £10,000 costs in Churngold case Almost five years from the day that Churngold Recycling’s premises in Avonmouth near Bristol were raided by Environment Agency officers and police, the Agency has secured a prosecution of the company and two of its directors. But, long running investigation and high legal costs, which are understood to have cost the Agency more than £2 … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 5 Oct 2017 Industry news London needs waste reduction focus, says LWARB The London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) has said that the draft London Environment Strategy can be “strengthened” with a bigger focus on stopping waste from being created in the first place. In a document published ahead of the board’s meeting tomorrow (5 October), LWARB have highlighted that the Mayor’s, Sadiq Khan, choice of wording … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 5 Oct 2017 Industry news Local rather than national solutions important, says Stoke officer Barry Brockbank, assistant director in operations at Stoke-on-Trent city council, talks to letsrecycle.com about blanket recycling targets and the operational realities of local recycling. “Pragmatic” and “local solutions” to disposing of waste have an important part to play in delivering local authority services according to Barry Brockbank, assistant director in operations at Stoke-on-Trent c… letsrecycle.com News · 5 Oct 2017 Industry news Energy efficiency: a case for the DNOs To get the retrofit revolution started, it is time we start working with the organisations that have the most to gain from energy demand reduction, says Greg Shreeve, Senior Insight Consultant at the Energy Saving Trust. Aldersgate Group · 4 Oct 2017 Industry news Disclaimer - Renewi Renewi · 4 Oct 2017 Industry news UK manufacturing industry: Brexit threatens businesses unless UK stays in EU chemical regulations On Friday 29th September, a wide range of stakeholders, including companies, politicians, the UK government and NGOs, gathered to discuss Brexit’s impact on future chemicals regulation in a comprehensive workshop organised by Chemical Watch, in collaboration with CHEM Trust and Tech UK. The overwhelming message of the event was that the UK should aim to […] CHEM Trust · 4 Oct 2017 Industry news Why are we wasting ‘waste’? Adrian Convery, Business Development Manager for waste management specialist CDEnviro, tells us how we should stop thinking in terms of waste and instead think in terms of resources. letsrecycle.com News · 4 Oct 2017 Industry news Visionscape buys liner producer Gelpack Dubai-based utility company, Visionscape Group has acquired UK-based bin liner manufacturer, Gelpack of Hereford, after it went into administration in August. The acquisition was completed on 21 September and was overseen by Chris Pole and Mark Orton from KPMG, who oversaw the administration of Gelpack when they were appointed in August. According to a statement … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Oct 2017 Industry news RDF exports rise more slowly Exports of refuse derived fuel (RDF) from England have risen more slowly in the first six months of 2017 when compared to previous years, according to the latest official figures. The figures, within Environment Agency provisional statistics for January to June 2017, show there has been a small increase of 1.3% in tonnes of RDF … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Oct 2017 Industry news Wales to set landfill disposal tax at national level The Welsh Government has published landfill disposal tax rates for the next two years with an assurance that they will be similar to landfill tax rates in England to avoid waste tourism. And, the Welsh Government also said that illegal disposal of waste would attract a penalty landfill disposal tax rate of 150% and that … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Oct 2017 Industry news Used batteries ‘hoarded in homes’ could boost recycling The shortfall in meeting the battery recycling target could be eradicated if the public recycled the used batteries ‘hoarded’ in UK homes, compliance scheme Ecosurety has suggested. According to research for Ecosurety and the environmental charity Hubbub, six in ten people in the UK hoard batteries in their homes. And, the study estimated that this … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Oct 2017 Industry news Van der Meij joins DS Smith in Germany DS Smith Recycling has made new appointments on the continent which include former Viridor Resource Management managing director, Herman van der Meij, joining the business in Germany. Mr van der Meij’s appointment at DS Smith Recycling comes after the departure of the company’s chief executive for Germany, Achim Wieser. Mr Wieser had played a key … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Oct 2017 Industry news Clarity Donates to Pirate Walk Charity Event The post Clarity Donates to Pirate Walk Charity Event appeared first on Clarity . Clarity Environmental · 3 Oct 2017