Recycling news: 2014

Industry news Biffa wins £50m Epping Forest waste contract Biffa will provide waste and recycling services for Essex-based district council as part of 10-year deal letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jul 2014 Industry news News in Brief With news on: Poole bins replaced; Preston Plastics investment; Suffolk JR; Biogen milestone, and; ReFood collection fleet letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jul 2014 Industry news North East councils praised for waste savings Councils can make efficiency savings in waste and recycling and improve services, says a Local Partnerships report letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jul 2014 Industry news Glass recycler hails impact of separation technology Glass recycler Reuse, sister firm of Berryman, updates on 5m sorting technology and confirms 15-year deal with glass manufacturer Ardagh letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jul 2014 Industry news How to reuse plastic pots and containers Last month Tracey asked about reusing yogurt pots and cream cartons. She wrote “”Cream / large yoghurt pots make good plant pots and I use the lid’s for the plant pot bottom. The kids and I sometimes paint and decoupage them to make slightly more presentable pencil holders.I would love to know some different uses… Zero Waste Week · 22 Jul 2014 Industry news Q2 packaging data shows dramatic improvement PRN prices expected to fall as glass, plastics and steel figures surpass obligations, but caution urged letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jul 2014 Industry news Cyclist hospitalised after waste vehicle collision Man in his 30s in critical condition after incident involving refuse vehicle in Richmond, West London, yesterday morning (July 21) letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jul 2014 Industry news Re-use campaign targets five London boroughs London Re-use Network seeking to encourage one million Londoners to donate items for re-use using 55,000 LWARB funding letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jul 2014 Industry news Suffolk waste head elected as NAWDO chair Steve Palfrey replaces John Woodruff as chair of NAWDO who had spent four years at the helm of the organisation letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jul 2014 Industry news Fracking – CHEM Trust’s position ** Update June 2015 – we have now published a new report and briefing on fracking, see the press release for details ** Fracking remains in the news – in the United Kingdom and also around the world. Much has been written about the carbon balance of fracking, for example the risks of fugitive emissions […] CHEM Trust · 21 Jul 2014 Industry news We welcome chemical agency’s efforts to involve consumers, and suggest improvements CHEM Trust – along >15 other environment groups – have welcomed the European Chemical Agency’s video which encourages people to find out about the chemicals in products they buy. The video has been criticised by UK Chemical Business Association, but in our view it is a creative way of engaging people in this important issue. In […] CHEM Trust · 21 Jul 2014 Industry news Jayplas opens LDPE reprocessing plant 20,000 tonnes-per-year capacity Loughborough facility produces plastic film granulate for use in bags for life and refuse sacks letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jul 2014 Industry news News in brief With news on; EA chair approval; Sheffield landfill closure; Sainsbury's food waste plan; Ealing plastics recycling, and; Cheshire textiles recycling letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jul 2014 Industry news Torfaen residents favour fortnightly collections Consultation by Welsh council shows that boroughs residents would prefer fortnightly to monthly residual waste collections letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jul 2014 Industry news London Mayor to unveil Enfield district heating Edmonton EfW will heat new development of 5,000 Lee Valley homes from 2015 letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jul 2014 Industry news GIB waste treatment predictions overestimated UK Without Incineration Network criticises gap in report published by Green Investment Bank this week letsrecycle.com News · 17 Jul 2014 Industry news DS Smith buys out Italian recycling firm Paper recycling giant strengthens European reach with deal to buy full share in Italmaceri letsrecycle.com News · 17 Jul 2014 Industry news Plevin driver injured in vehicle incident Details emerge of incident involving wood recycling firm in June which saw driver injured while collecting material letsrecycle.com News · 17 Jul 2014 Industry news Collection crews at risk from bioaerosol exposure Bioaerosols expert says some waste collection crews could be at risk from airbourne particles at health and safety conference letsrecycle.com News · 17 Jul 2014 Industry news Widespread pollution by pharmaceuticals should be addressed internationally at SAICM The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) is a policy framework to promote chemical safety around the world. SAICM has as its overall objective the achievement of the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle so that, by 2020, chemicals are produced and used in ways that minimize significant adverse impacts on human health and […] CHEM Trust · 17 Jul 2014 Industry news CHEM Trust opposes further use of brominated flame retardant HBCDD The brominated flame retardant (BFR) Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD) has been used for decades and has turned out to be persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT). It has been detected in humans, the environment and wildlife worldwide, including in remote areas. It has been on the REACH candidate list for 6 years and governments around the world have listed it for global phase-out […] CHEM Trust · 17 Jul 2014 Industry news Bury council to move to three-weekly collections Council to change from fortnightly to three-weekly residual waste collections after plans approved at meeting yesterday (July 16) letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jul 2014 Industry news Cost cutting sees councils drop food waste service Tamworth and Lichfield councils tell residents to stop mixing food waste with garden waste due to high cost of IVC treatment letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jul 2014 Industry news TEEP fears see Hull clamp down on contamination EXCLUSIVE: Council report addressing TEEP regulations claims kerbside commingled dry recycling collections extremely popular with residents letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jul 2014 Industry news Agency to clamp down on Annex VII omissions Environment Agency launches three-month awareness campaign highlighting legal requirement to fill out export documentation letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jul 2014 Industry news CHEM Trust joins with >100 US and EU NGOs asking for chemicals to be removed from TTIP The European Union (EU) and US are currently negotiating a new trade deal – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP for short. CHEM Trust – and many others – are worried that this deal could weaken controls on chemicals, particularly within Europe. We’ve got together with over 100 NGOs from Europe and the US […] CHEM Trust · 16 Jul 2014 Industry news Nigerian Guardian: Fresh alert on household chemicals’ link to cancer, infertility, birth defects Coverage in the Nigerian Guardian of 10th July 2014 “SCIENTISTS have raised fresh alert over the proliferation of food packaging that contains hazardous chemicals associated with increasing cases of cancer, infertility and birth defects. The scientists in one of two independent but separate studies suggest that the chemical, Bisphenol-A (BPA), changes how genes function in the […] CHEM Trust · 16 Jul 2014 Industry news Countrystyle Re-Awarded Contract with Kimberly-Clark Countrystyle have been re-awarded a 3 year contract with Kimberly-Clark based in Northfleet, Kent. Countrystyle has been working with Kimberly-Clark since 2010 managing and recycling all waste produced on the Northfleet site from general, wood, metal, paper pulp, cardboard etc. Countrystyle Recycling · 16 Jul 2014 Industry news Pet summer essentials from fetch.co.uk - Ocado Group Ocado Group media · 16 Jul 2014 Industry news GIB points to 2020 waste treatment capacity gap Government backed Green Investment Bank urges investors to fund EfW projects and predicts 7.7m tonne treatment capacity shortfall letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jul 2014 Industry news Salford recycling firm to lose permit after fire Environment Agency rules company must cease all operations at Salford site by next month following huge blaze in March letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jul 2014 Industry news Plant and vehicle round-up With news on; TITECH sorting; Blaxtair vehicle sensors; Eriez metal separator; Barnet refuse weighing, and; Terex screener letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jul 2014 Industry news Textiles collected commingled in pioneering trial Collection of textiles as part of commingled service could be viable if trial by Lewisham council and LMB Textiles proves successful letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jul 2014 Industry news Norfolk and Suffolk agree cross-border EfW deal Subject to Defra approval Norfolk will send residual waste to SITA-run Great Blakenham EfW plant letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jul 2014 Industry news SITA to develop Tilbury Port RDF facility Following acquisition of Forth Ports Ltd, SITA UK announces plans for facility to process RDF and SRF at the Port of Tilbury in Essex letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jul 2014 Industry news Unlocking the online potential Kae Faeff of itsCollected.com asks why the sector has been slow to embrace opportunities online letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jul 2014 Industry news Our first official year – achievements and future steps We are still young (and we still have plenty of mistakes to make), but we’re proud to say we’ve grown leaps and bounds from the time when we made our first run for office stationery a little over a year ago. The Restart Project · 15 Jul 2014 Industry news Carbon benchmarking for tissue manufacturing - Tissue World Magazine Tissue World Magazine · 15 Jul 2014 Industry news Rise in supermarket carrier bag use in 2013 Consumers used 8.3bn single-use thin-gauge bags in 2013, but overall weight of carrier bags has fallen, according to WRAP letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jul 2014 Industry news Grundon in further backing for Carbon8 Additional investment and management team involvement as Carbon8 looks to treat more flue gas residues letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jul 2014