Recycling news: 2006

Industry news Oxfordshire sites achieve 60% recycling rate County council praises waste management contractor as its household waste recycling centres set strong standard for recycling letsrecycle.com News · 29 May 2006 Industry news Seven shortlisted for Cleanaway UK A mixture of waste contractors and venture capitalists are vying to acquire Cleanaway UK from Brambles letsrecycle.com News · 25 May 2006 Industry news New incinerator “will not divert” Perth from recycling Waste firm seeks permission for energy-from-waste plant, but says proposal does not threaten high recycling rates letsrecycle.com News · 25 May 2006 Industry news PCA director dies after long illness Cliff Davis-Coleman, director of Public Contractors Association and dies aged 45 letsrecycle.com News · 25 May 2006 Industry news Recycling and waste sector prepares for major exhibition letsrecycle.com Live! - the first major recycling and waste management event of 2006 - takes place this week near Coventry letsrecycle.com News · 25 May 2006 Industry news Recyclers offered world&#39s first airbag deployment courses Motor manufacturers fund training programme for UK recyclers to safely remove hazardous airbags from old cars letsrecycle.com News · 25 May 2006 Industry news New funding programme for tyre recycling infrastructure WRAP to fund projects aiming to expand UK tyre recycling infrastructure, including grants for new plants and equipment letsrecycle.com News · 24 May 2006 Industry news Food industry calls for stronger recycling infrastructure Manufacturers aiming at new waste reduction targets call on Defra to help expand treatment options available letsrecycle.com News · 24 May 2006 Industry news North Kesteven set to top English recycling league Provisional results suggest Lincolnshire authority could push St Edmundsbury into second place in 2005/06 recycling table letsrecycle.com News · 24 May 2006 Industry news “Limited progress” in European PVC recycling effort Concerns over collection of post-consumer PVC plastic revealed in major review of plastics industry recycling plan letsrecycle.com News · 23 May 2006 Industry news Merger to create community recycling super-group Three community-based waste and recycling consultancies to combine efforts with formal union letsrecycle.com News · 23 May 2006 Industry news Verdant set to run South Oxfordshire green waste scheme Waste firm preparing new opt-in fortnightly collection service for green waste letsrecycle.com News · 23 May 2006 Industry news WRAP funds recycling trials for small inner-city businesses SMEs in Oxford and Manchester city centres receive flexible recycling services letsrecycle.com News · 22 May 2006 Industry news News in brief WEEE Man returns, Humber gets phone recycling, cooking oil powers plant, education at Newport MRF and Abitibi rewards recycling school letsrecycle.com News · 22 May 2006 Industry news Exeter contamination case adjourned for two weeks Council prosecution of recyclable contaminating resident will be heard in two weeks time letsrecycle.com News · 22 May 2006 Industry news Middlesbrough rolls out kerbside recycling scheme Multi-material scheme reaches 95% of residents as council looks to boost recycling rate letsrecycle.com News · 22 May 2006 Industry news WRAP funds all rubber road and rail highway Believed to be world&#39s first, all rubber road and rail highway made from used tyres could save millions of pounds in road building letsrecycle.com News · 21 May 2006 Industry news Audit Commission praises Ribble Valley recycling Ribble Valley Borough Council believes it could soon be one of the best performing recycling authorities in the country letsrecycle.com News · 21 May 2006 Industry news Wandsworth pilots high rise doorstep recycling scheme Wandsworth extends its popular orange sack scheme to include four inner-London estates letsrecycle.com News · 21 May 2006 Industry news Sharp rise in packaging recovery in first quarter Aluminium packaging recovery has soared with glass also contributing to increased figures letsrecycle.com News · 18 May 2006 Industry news OFT sounds collusion warning over waste contracts A new report looks at potential industry collusion, council contract processes and aiding community sector firms letsrecycle.com News · 18 May 2006 Industry news Community sector defends use of kerbside boxes CRN dismisses Health and Safety Laboratory report claiming wheeled bins are preferable to kerbside boxes for recyclable collections letsrecycle.com News · 18 May 2006 Industry news Leicester holds event to encourage bike recycling City council to run bicycle recycling day to inform local people how to start up bicycle recycling scheme letsrecycle.com News · 18 May 2006 Industry news Liberal Democrats plan waste incineration tax Party looks to bring in tax on incineration and landfill in combined "waste tax" letsrecycle.com News · 17 May 2006 Industry news Recycle Now stamps its authority on UK recycling National campaign teams up with Royal Mail to produce first ever slogan postage cancellation mark letsrecycle.com News · 17 May 2006 Industry news Exeter to prosecute over alleged contamination by resident City council to be first to take resident to court for contaminating recycling bin under section 46 of the Clean Neighbourhoods Bill letsrecycle.com News · 17 May 2006 Industry news Landfill will reign until 2010 Biffa Waste Management&#39s Peter Jones believes the waste industry will opt for landfill until it is replaced as the best financial option letsrecycle.com News · 16 May 2006 Industry news News in brief New chairman for Newport Paper, Edinburgh unveils Can-Can Cow, materials exchange in Peterborough and hazardous waste amnesty in Norfolk letsrecycle.com News · 16 May 2006 Industry news Defra “extremely happy” with high recycling councils Government says across the board increase of minimum recycling target is to avoid punishing significantly improved councils letsrecycle.com News · 16 May 2006 Industry news Cleanaway East London autoclave plant gets go ahead London Thames Gateway Development Corporation gives planning permission for 20 million plant at landfill site in Rainham letsrecycle.com News · 16 May 2006 Industry news WRAP to push high value recycled products Seven companies to share over 100,000 in order to improve marketing of high value recycled wood products letsrecycle.com News · 15 May 2006 Industry news Sulo helps prevent textile thefts in Midlands Container manufacturer provides textile banks to recycler in order to stop the growing problem of clothes being stolen letsrecycle.com News · 15 May 2006 Industry news Broad support for councils to handle business waste Responses to the governments waste strategy review consultation shows suppirt for local authorities handling business waste letsrecycle.com News · 15 May 2006 Industry news LARAC “disappointed” with Defra&#39s new recycling targets Recycling officers say banding local authorities with lowest targets together is wrong letsrecycle.com News · 15 May 2006 Industry news Fire damages waste to energy plant on Isle of Wight A fire over the weekend damaged a plant at Newport adjacent to a Biffa site letsrecycle.com News · 14 May 2006 Industry news Poor performers get 20% short-term recycling targets Extra help to be offered to lowest performing councils and work on inclusion of home composting is stepped up letsrecycle.com News · 14 May 2006 Industry news South Herts Waste Management loses Epping Forest contract Company goes into administration forcing Epping Forest to bring in Cory Environmental to run its collection and recycling service letsrecycle.com News · 14 May 2006 Industry news Viridor to sign Somerset partnership Contract signing will be followed by 25 million purchase of Somerset&#39s own waste management company Wyvern Waste letsrecycle.com News · 14 May 2006 Industry news HSE report calls for limit to size of recycling boxes Major HSE study of collection schemes warns weight of large kerbside boxes can exceed national safety guidelines letsrecycle.com News · 11 May 2006 Industry news Veolia to buy Biffa&#39s loss-making Belgian division Veolia Environmental Services agrees 30.7m acquisition of Biffa Belgium as Severn Trent names new Biffa chairman letsrecycle.com News · 11 May 2006