Recycling news: 2004

Industry news 4m construction waste recycling plant opens in Birmingham Jennie Price of WRAP officially launches Premier Waste UK&#39s new facility, which will process 800 tonnes of waste a day letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jun 2004 Industry news West Dunbartonshire receives 4m from Scottish Executive The council will use the grant from the Strategic Waste Fund to introduce green waste and paper kerbside collections letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jun 2004 Industry news Illegal dumping of hazardous waste already increasing Environment Agency chair Sir John Harman speaks of urgent need to improve management and awareness of hazardous waste letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jun 2004 Industry news Edinburgh to expand green waste collections to 100,000 homes Brown bins are delivered to a further 14,000 properties as the city council begins a two-year roll out programme letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jun 2004 Industry news Recyclers call for more plastic bottles from councils The UK has markets to take more material from local authority collections, Recoup AGM hears letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jun 2004 Industry news Grosvenor wins contract to transform Masons MRF Viridor has appointed Grosvenor to change the Masons plant from a "dirty" to "clean" MRF letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jun 2004 Industry news News in Brief Bexley signs recycling box deal; Nell McAndrew promotes recycling; and, Taylor reveals new trade waste container lid letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jun 2004 Industry news Comingled recycling system key to Wandsworth target success Wandsworth beats 2003/04 recycling target, but other Western Riverside boroughs began comingled collections too late letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jun 2004 Industry news Defra hits the road to explain LATS Defra is to host a series of information roadshows next month on the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jun 2004 Industry news Wastelink fund to address recycling management shortage Commercial waste firm offers universities 200,000 fund to address a management skills shortage in the recycling sector letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jun 2004 Industry news Defra plans trial incentive schemes for household recycling Defra is working on trial schemes to encourage householders to recycle, according to environment minister Elliot Morley letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jun 2004 Industry news Recycling schemes for flats not as impossible as perceived New research from Waste Watch states that a range of different recycling systems for flats are successful letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jun 2004 Industry news Premier Waste reveals plans for 10m aerobic digester Durham-based waste company applies to Defra&#39s Demonstrator Programme for grant to build 42,000 tonne a year treatment plant letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jun 2004 Industry news UK waste strategy needs changing, new report claims The government should focus on reducing landfill and not recycling rates, says a report by leading consultant David Davies letsrecycle.com News · 17 Jun 2004 Industry news Premiership tickets on offer in waste reduction quiz Envirowise, the government agency that helps businesses reduce their environmental impact, launches a football competition letsrecycle.com News · 17 Jun 2004 Industry news Corus PRN money helps Birmingham recycler collect steel cans Steel reprocessor Corus has assisted West Midlands aluminium collector Alutrade to expand steel can collections letsrecycle.com News · 17 Jun 2004 Industry news Plans for a national recycling week nearing completion A week-long campaign to push household waste recycling could be run in mid-October this year letsrecycle.com News · 17 Jun 2004 Industry news Recycling at Cornish civic amenity sites up by 60% Cornwall county council has said its recycling rate at CA sites rose from 17% to 27% in 2002/03 following a leaflet campaign letsrecycle.com News · 17 Jun 2004 Industry news Waste sector slammed for “appalling” safety record by HSE New research from the Health and Safety Executive reveals the waste and recycling sector has the highest accident rate in the UK letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jun 2004 Industry news Electronics recyclers warn of “unfair” data reporting rules European Electronics Recyclers Association expresses its reservations over EC proposals for collecting recycling data letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jun 2004 Industry news Islington 60m waste centre gears up for opening Recycling and waste operations will be relocated to the new Hornsey Street centre from a site where Arsenal&#39s new stadium will be built letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jun 2004 Industry news Councils need to speed up compost developments Councils in danger of making bad last-minute decisions if arrangements for composting technologies aren&#39t speeded up. letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jun 2004 Industry news Competition for sorting contracts heats up in SE England New material recycling facilities coming on line in London and South East England put pressure on existing plants to find more tonnage letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jun 2004 Industry news Second hand electrical goods exporters warned by Agency The Environment Agency has revealed that electrical goods must be in working order to meet transfrontier waste shipment regulations letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jun 2004 Industry news CIWM President calls for Strategic Waste Authority The new Chartered Institution of Wastes Management president says a Strategic Waste Authority is needed to deliver UK waste targets letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jun 2004 Industry news Defra: Gap between good and bad performers “unacceptable” The government issues a report into the first year of its Waste Implementation Programme, but says there is still much to do letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jun 2004 Industry news 35m US takeover for Leeds-based medical waste firm White Rose Environmental has been acquired by American company Stericycle, which is aiming to expand its international presence letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jun 2004 Industry news Packaging minimisation to be targeted by Defra Environment minister Elliot Morley has spoken of the need to reduce the growing volumes of packaging letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jun 2004 Industry news Defra unveils data centre for waste technologies A new online resource aims to offer comparative waste technology data letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jun 2004 Industry news Morley rules out hazardous waste crisis Treating contaminated soil on site will help ease the pressure on hazardous waste landfill, says environment minister letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jun 2004 Industry news 30 billion investment needed in waste facilities, says ICE The Institution of Civil Engineers says up to 2,300 new waste treatment plants are needed by 2020 to avoid a "major crisis" letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jun 2004 Industry news WRAP to avoid lecturing public in recycling campaign WRAP is to unveil its new recycling campaign on July 22 but will avoid frightening householders letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jun 2004 Industry news In-vessel composting facility approved for Devon landfill Viridor has won permission for a plant to take in kitchen and garden waste from two Devon authorities letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jun 2004 Industry news Draft WEEE regulations delayed by clearing house discussions DTI&#39s final consultation on the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive is now not expected until July letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jun 2004 Industry news New CIWM president receives MBE Alistair Lamont, the new president of the CIWM, has received a MBE for services to sustainable waste management letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jun 2004 Industry news News in Brief Study finds new way to recycle waste carpet; New website encourages furniture re-use; and, new waste plant for Lincolnshire letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jun 2004 Industry news Belfast on course for 25% recycling target, council claims City council insists it will meet its tough targets as it stages its annual Waste Week, encouraging residents to recycle letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jun 2004 Industry news Businesses face cost increase for fluorescent lamp disposal Companies are set to face increased costs and potential fines for the improper disposal of fluorescent lamps, warns Biffa letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jun 2004 Industry news SEPA given new powers to enforce waste regulations Scottish Executive tightens Waste Management Regulations, and allows new licence exemptions for community composters letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jun 2004 Industry news English MBT technologies feature in Juniper study Consultants are three months into study which will provide advice to local authorities letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jun 2004