Recycling news: 2006

Industry news 750,000 plan to bring reprocessing plants to East London London Remade programme to open door for two new reprocessing plants in Dagenham, offering 100,000 tonnes of capacity letsrecycle.com News · 25 Apr 2006 Industry news New glass recycling service for Warwickshire pubs ECT Recycling to run scheme as part of series of WRAP trials also run by social enterprise groups in Scotland and London letsrecycle.com News · 25 Apr 2006 Industry news Recovered prices steady but paper mills offer optimism Two global paper businesses have reported sound first quarter results with some price rises for finished product letsrecycle.com News · 25 Apr 2006 Industry news Sims Group launches vehicle recycling network online Metal recycling giant launches website to show last owners of vehicles where they can dispose of their old cars free of charge letsrecycle.com News · 25 Apr 2006 Industry news Lee Marshall returns as LARAC chair With a new job at Powys county council, Lee Marshall re-elected as chair of Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee letsrecycle.com News · 25 Apr 2006 Industry news Tesco makes recycling pledge as profits hit record levels Supermarket claims new recycling machines could provide 10% of increase needed in UK packaging recovery to meet EU targets letsrecycle.com News · 24 Apr 2006 Industry news Environment Agency chief recuperating after riding accident Waste industry wishes Baroness Barbara Young well as she recovers at home from surgery following horse riding accident letsrecycle.com News · 24 Apr 2006 Industry news News in Brief Including news on composting, community recycling, new guidance on scheme evaluation and a new environmental consultancy letsrecycle.com News · 24 Apr 2006 Industry news SRC Recycling wins West Sussex abandoned vehicle contract Eastergate firm to collect and depollute abandoned vehicles in three-year contract with county and district councils letsrecycle.com News · 24 Apr 2006 Industry news Somerset states ambition for new waste diversion efforts County council begins work on two-year consultation process to assess waste recycling and treatment options letsrecycle.com News · 24 Apr 2006 Industry news Law firm Nabarro Nathanson wins three council contracts Company to provide legal advice to Somerset Waste Partnership, Telford & Wrekin and North Tyneside councils letsrecycle.com News · 24 Apr 2006 Industry news Taylor invests 100,000 in bin rebuild operation Taylor brings re-build and repair operation in from the cold with new purpose-built facility at Worcestershire HQ letsrecycle.com News · 23 Apr 2006 Industry news Boeing interest in new carbon fibre recycling process Warwickshire firm says aerospace giants interested in new pyrolysis process that can recycle carbon fibre letsrecycle.com News · 23 Apr 2006 Industry news Veolia wins seven-year Hastings collection contract Borough re-signs incumbent contractor despite achieving one of the lowest recycling rates in South East region in 2004/05 letsrecycle.com News · 23 Apr 2006 Industry news Real Nappy Week celebrates 10th anniversary National campaign promoting use of washable nappies gets underway for 10th time, with events planned across the country letsrecycle.com News · 23 Apr 2006 Industry news Turkey farm demonstrates recycled glass filtration system Five-month WRAP-funded trial demonstrates use of recycled glass in the filtering of water at Norfolk-based Bernard Matthews letsrecycle.com News · 23 Apr 2006 Industry news Hampshire EfW plants topped up with recycling centre waste With kerbside residual waste going to incinerators, waste from recycling centres is topping up shortfalls letsrecycle.com News · 20 Apr 2006 Industry news Support on offer for recycling innovations Recycled products and recycling ideas could win development support from a WRAP-backed programme letsrecycle.com News · 20 Apr 2006 Industry news News in Brief Second waste vehicle fatality in April; Landfill diversion ideas for Northamptonshire; Glass filtration success letsrecycle.com News · 20 Apr 2006 Industry news 800,000 items of furniture thrown away in London every year Less than one in 10 items of London&#39s unwanted furniture re-used, despite demand from 300,000 low-income homes, research claims letsrecycle.com News · 19 Apr 2006 Industry news “Bizarre” turf war over kerbside recycling in Welsh town Ceredigion county council now competing with local community group for household materials collected in Lampeter letsrecycle.com News · 19 Apr 2006 Industry news Newport fortnightly residual collections “here to stay” New arrangements in Welsh city see recycling rates soar by 44%, but minority of residents warned over their use of scheme letsrecycle.com News · 19 Apr 2006 Industry news Enterprise plc begins 100m Wolverhampton waste contract Utilities company takes over management of city council&#39s waste and recycling services under 14-year profit-sharing arrangement letsrecycle.com News · 19 Apr 2006 Industry news Re-branding for Credential Group after latest acquisition Credential Environmental gives new name to automotive and hazardous waste divisions after acquiring Tyre Collection Services letsrecycle.com News · 18 Apr 2006 Industry news Window firms in North West trial SME recycling scheme Consultancy Axion Recycling manages trial collections aiming to increase the amount of waste recycled from small businesses letsrecycle.com News · 18 Apr 2006 Industry news News in Brief With news on recycling and re-use in the North East, printer cartridge re-use, recycling in Derbyshire, and success at Camelot plc letsrecycle.com News · 18 Apr 2006 Industry news Cumbria nears decision on long-term waste partner County carries out enquiry on waste treatment technologies as it chooses between WRG and Shanks for 30-year disposal contract letsrecycle.com News · 18 Apr 2006 Industry news Valpak to run 1 million farm plastics research programme Packaging specialists to research development of recycling and collection systems for non-packaging farm plastics letsrecycle.com News · 17 Apr 2006 Industry news Trials target agriculture as market for waste plasterboard WRAP provides 122,000 for two projects to stimulate demand for waste plasterboard in the agricultural sector letsrecycle.com News · 17 Apr 2006 Industry news Waste&#39s “Tomorrow&#39s World” to showcase latest research Call for postgraduate researchers in waste and recycling to submit papers for the annual conference held in July letsrecycle.com News · 17 Apr 2006 Industry news Wansbrough machine to close as DS Smith tackles costs Papermaking capacity to be cut by 35,000 tonnes at Somerset mill as company continues to restructure operations letsrecycle.com News · 17 Apr 2006 Industry news Dacorum introduces new kerbside glass recycling service Hertfordshire borough praised for keeping colours separate on new household glass collection scheme letsrecycle.com News · 17 Apr 2006 Industry news Defra: 2005 packaging recovery targets have been met New packaging waste reprocessing figures have been released, with Defra insisting targets have been met letsrecycle.com News · 12 Apr 2006 Industry news Good potential for plastics recycling in Yorkshire Research from Recoup and RAY suggests good demand is available for household waste plastics if councils are prepared to collect letsrecycle.com News · 12 Apr 2006 Industry news Ireland takes seven months to reach WEEE Directive target Republic claims to have reached levels of collection needed under Europe&#39s Directive on waste electronics letsrecycle.com News · 12 Apr 2006 Industry news State-of-the-art recycling centre opens in York Defra funding helps council open new 1/3 million flagship recycling centre, with aim of recycling 60% of waste received letsrecycle.com News · 12 Apr 2006 Industry news Compliance scheme Biffpack appoints new manager Andy Bradford, of DHL&#39s Environmental Compliance Solutions, to manage UK&#39s third largest packaging compliance scheme letsrecycle.com News · 11 Apr 2006 Industry news News in Brief With news on waste awareness work in Wales, London and Oxfordshire; Romanian waste; and a Lincolnshire MRF letsrecycle.com News · 11 Apr 2006 Industry news Recycling officers given chance to win trip to Africa Alupro to take two council recycling officers on fact-finding mission to Burkina Faso as part of Trees for Africa campaign letsrecycle.com News · 11 Apr 2006 Industry news Four new technology waste plants achieve Defra approval Defra reports on progress with 30 Demonstrator Programme, stating that five or six plants will now be running within two years letsrecycle.com News · 10 Apr 2006