Recycling news: 2017

Industry news Media Centre - CIWM - CIWM CIWM (Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) · 9 Aug 2017 Industry news Dump landfill and increase the profitability of your business Dr Hugh McCoach, Principal Consultant, discusses the reasons why modern businesses should be using alternative disposal routes to landfill. Valpak · 8 Aug 2017 Industry news Scrapyard Challenge Receives Cash Boost to Help Restore Rare Habitat The post Scrapyard Challenge Receives Cash Boost to Help Restore Rare Habitat appeared first on Clarity . Clarity Environmental · 8 Aug 2017 Industry news Kerbside carton collection hits ‘66% coverage’ Trade group the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) UK has reported that local authorities collecting cartons for recycling from the kerbside has hit 66%. However, ACE UK was unable to give an indication of the actual UK recycling rate for cartons. According to ACE UK, 66% is a milestone in terms of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Aug 2017 Industry news Reuse milestone for Scotland’s circular economy Scotland’s cabinet secretary for the environment, Roseanna Cunningham, today (8 August) highlighted the importance of reuse of products and materials to keep them out of landfill and in high-value use for longer. Ms Cunningham’s comments came as she visited Scotland’s first re-use hub, Blythswood Care in Dingwall. It was also announced today that there are … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Aug 2017 Industry news Incinerator study finds ‘low levels’ of pollutants The first part of a major government-funded study into the health effects of emissions from energy-from-waste plants has been published, suggesting that incinerators emit a ‘low level’ of air pollutants. Details of the study were published in the Environmental Science & Technology Journal earlier this summer. The work was funded by Public Health England (PHE) … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 8 Aug 2017 Industry news Did climate change cause this massive wildfire in Greenland? A wildfire which blazed in Greenland earlier this summer was likely exacerbated by our changing climate. Satellite images show a fire in west Greenland burned for more than a week, with the first sighting on July 31st. Local media reports say smoke from the blaze, 90 miles northeast of the small town of Sisimuit, has […] Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 7 Aug 2017 Industry news The Natural Capital Protocol: one year later We know that the implementation of the Protocol is still in relative infancy, but the momentum behind it has been considerable, and in its first year, already it has become the standard approach for businesses looking to understand their impacts and dependencies on natural capital, says Mark Gough, Executive Director at the Natural Capital Coalition . Aldersgate Group · 7 Aug 2017 Industry news Explore Cumbernauld Freegle - Freegle Freegle · 7 Aug 2017 Industry news Taurus Celebrates The Forest’s Foil Recycling Success Taurus Crafts, based in Lydney, are celebrating because with the help of local residents they have saved over two tonnes of aluminium foil from landfill in the past year. The foil, collected through the bright yellow recycling banks sited around the Forest of Dean is processed by volunteers at Taurus Crafts. The project is supported […] Alupro · 7 Aug 2017 Industry news Appointment news round-up (07/08/2017) With news on: Scottish Government’s head of waste moves to Brexit unit; Eunomia’s head of natural economy; and, Tom Richardson joins Ellgia. Scottish Government’s head of waste moves to Brexit unit Circular Economy leader, Gabby Pieraccini, Head of Zero Waste at Scottish Government, moves on after three years to take new position in Scottish Government’s … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Aug 2017 Industry news ESA criticises Eunomia waste study as ‘flawed’ The UK’s waste management industry trade association has dismissed a report by consultancy Eunomia into residual waste treatment capacity as ‘flawed’. Other reactions to the study, which predicts an overcapacity of energy from waste plants, include one from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which said it recognised the need for a mix … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Aug 2017 Industry news 10 top tips for reducing food waste I’m often asked for my top 10 tips on reducing food waste, so here you have them. The big number one tip has to be… Buy less food! Try to think of each shopping expedition as one where you will buy the minimum amount of food to get by rather than one where you are… Zero Waste Week · 7 Aug 2017 Industry news Recycling Lives wins Sellafield metals contract Waste and recycling company, Recycling Lives, has won a contract to recycle metal from the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria. Recycling Lives is to open two new sites in the county to facilitate the contract with nuclear decommissioning company Sellafield Ltd, which it said will also provide jobs and training opportunities. The company will also … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Aug 2017 Industry news Gove urged to look ‘up the waste hierarchy’ Research firm Eunomia today called on the environment secretary, Michael Gove, to focus on the higher stages of the waste hierarchy rather than energy from waste, as he prepares a new resource strategy. The call came as a study by the consultancy, which specialises in resource policy, claimed to show that the UK is heading … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Aug 2017 Industry news Home CORPORATE in Company Training - CIWM CIWM (Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) · 4 Aug 2017 Industry news The Week in Waste – 4 August 2017 VIDEO: In this weekly news round-up video, we report on the launch of a fund to help promote the recycling and reuse of waste electrical equipment – requests are due in by the end of September. Plus, we note that the packaging waste targets are on course to be met in 2017. letsrecycle.com News · 4 Aug 2017 Industry news LGA unveils flytipping research for councils The extent of flytipping and its impact on the budgets of local authorities in England has been highlighted in research published this week by the Local Government Association. The data shows that the North West region suffers notably from flytipping with a total of 143,451 incidents of flytipping reported in 2015/16. But, London is likely … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Aug 2017 Industry news Farm subsidies: Major UK recipient linked to aid controversy One of the biggest recipients of direct farm subsidies in the UK is discreetly controlled by a Malaysian tycoon who acted as a middleman in one of this country’s biggest aid controversies, an Unearthed and Private Eye investigation has revealed. The South Pickenham Estate Company, which farms some 6,500 acres around South Pickenham Hall, in […] Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 3 Aug 2017 Industry news Recycling – Issue 7 Autumn 2017 The post Recycling – Issue 7 Autumn 2017 appeared first on The Recycling Association . The Recycling Association · 3 Aug 2017 Industry news Councils invited to bid for WEEE funding Producers and retailers of electrical equipment have this week launched a £665,000 fund to support projects, led by local authorities, which will deliver increased levels of re-use and recycling of waste electrical equipment. Proposals are now being sought from local authorities working with partner organisations for initiatives which are “innovative, sustainable and which aim to … Read More Th… letsrecycle.com News · 3 Aug 2017 Industry news Birmingham seeking ‘quick’ resolution to strike Birmingham city council says it is seeking to resolve the dispute with its refuse and recycling workers ‘sooner rather than later’, as litter piles up across the city. In a statement released today (3 August), the local authority said that discussions continue to take place with Unite, the trade union representing the crews, in an effort to … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Aug 2017 Industry news Diversion tactics Achieving a goal of zero waste-to-landfill should be high on the agenda for all companies, but what does this actually mean? letsrecycle.com News · 3 Aug 2017 Industry news Waste World Cup 2017 to support WasteAid UK The 2017 Waste World Cup – the waste industry’s premier football tournament – will be supporting the charity WasteAid UK, to help raise funds for waste services in developing countries. Taking place at Northampton University on Friday 1 September, this year marks the 15th anniversary of the mixed-gender waste industry football tournament. Over 250 visitors … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Aug 2017 Industry news Redditch to trial waste minimisation rewards scheme Worcestershire county council is partnering with recycling reward scheme, Greenredeem, to pilot a new scheme in Redditch district aimed at reducing waste and cutting costs. The trial, which will run from October 1st 2017 for 12 months, is intended to encourage the Worcestershire district’s residents to cut down on the amount of waste they throw … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Aug 2017 Industry news The Total Answer To Waste Management Burden The man who said there were only two certainties in life – death and taxes – got it wrong. He forgot waste. It’s an inevitability of pretty well all human activity from domestic to commercial, industrial to agricultural, on the sea and even in space. There’s just no escaping it – or the cost of […] CSG (Cleansing Service Group) · 3 Aug 2017 Industry news Forest fires rage across Indonesia as dry season begins Forest fires are once again sweeping across Indonesia, with academics warning that the blazes, which have become an annual event since the mid-1990s, have become the “new normal”. So far five Indonesian provinces have declared emergencies as result of forest fires, according to officials. Satellite images collected by Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Authority showed 170 […] Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 2 Aug 2017 Industry news Air pollution tunnels could make problem worse for drivers, say scientists Plans to build air pollution tunnels over motorways, under consideration by a government agency, will make the air more toxic for drivers and passengers, according to scientists. Highways England is currently trialling a number of different roadside barriers and considering building “tunnel-like structures” to reduce pollution that reaches locals. But air pollution experts questioned their […] … Unearthed (Greenpeace UK) · 2 Aug 2017 Industry news Measuring The Impact Of Repair Our clothes sorting warehouse buried deep in an industrial estate in Wembley in North West London is where clothes donated... TRAID · 2 Aug 2017 Industry news Recovered fibre costs hit Smurfit Kappa Corrugated packaging and recycling company, Smurfit Kappa, has reported a fall in pre-tax profit amid ‘unprecedented’ recovered fibre [waste paper] cost inflation, it reported on Wednesday (2 August). Smurfit Kappa has seen what CEO Tony Smurfit has called “a good set of results” in the first half, with revenue growing by 5%, but with pretax … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Aug 2017 Industry news Our Business: Premium Drinks Worldwide - Diageo Diageo news and media · 2 Aug 2017 Industry news Plastic has ‘strong’ showing in Q2 packaging figures Recycling targets for packaging materials including plastic, paper, glass, wood, aluminium and steel for 2017 look on course to be met, according to latest figures which show progress made during the first six months of the year. The Quarter 2 packaging data, published on the National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD) website last week, shows the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Aug 2017 Industry news ESA and EA to crack down on waste crime Waste management businesses handling refuse derived fuel and other materials could have to show they have sufficient funds in the bank before they are allowed to operate, under proposals being put forward by the UK’s waste management industry trade association. The need for sufficient financial resources is one aspect of a set of measures being … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Aug 2017 Industry news Say ‘no’ to plastic Organics recycling expert Charlie Trousdell of Charlie T Associates reflects on the issue of plastics contamination impacting on the organics sector. Plastic pollution risks ‘near permanent contamination of the natural environment’ warned a new global study by US academics this month. Researchers say a massive 8,300 million metric tons of virgin plastics have been produced … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Aug 2017 Industry news Scientific research will uncover new insights into offshore wind In-depth scientific research and monitoring in a real-time environment is recognised as vital to maximising learning opportunities for the offshore wind sector, says Adam Ezzamel, Project Director of the EOWDC for Vattenfall . Aldersgate Group · 1 Aug 2017 Industry news Yorwaste expands base in North Yorkshire Council-owned Yorwaste has opened a £3 million waste transfer station on the outskirts of York, adding to its infrastructure in North Yorkshire. The waste transfer station, built by the Yorkshire-based waste management company, will handle 75,000 tonnes of waste each year. The waste will come from households in the City of York and Selby District … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Aug 2017 Industry news FCC and Hills win Wiltshire contracts Wiltshire council has opted to award contracts to two contractors rather than just one, to run its HWRCs and collection services. In January 2016 the authority announced that under a new contract, Hills from August 2017 would continue to run its household recycling centres and would additionally handle waste collection work, including the collection of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Aug 2017 Industry news Wiltshire set for contract announcement The unitary authority of Wiltshire council is poised to release details of contract arrangements for collection of waste and recycling services which are due to have come into force from August 1 2017. But, the council has so far drawn a veil of secrecy over whether it has actually awarded the single contract for the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Aug 2017 Industry news Profits soar at FCC Spanish conglomerate FCC Group has reported a substantial increase in net profit of 64% in the second quarter of 2017, with the UK accounting for 13.9% of revenue. The 64% figure compares to the first quarter of the year and was reported yesterday by the group in its latest set of results. Overall the group … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Aug 2017 Industry news WRAP seeks urban authorities for consistency work Resources charity WRAP is encouraging more local authorities in England to explore the business case for greater consistency. And, the charity has said that it is particularly keen “to work with more urban authorities, where we know achieving consistent service that deliver high recycling can be even more challenging”. WRAP is also looking to work … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Aug 2017