Recycling news: 2006

Industry news Recycled paper used to cover landfills US-owned company introduces sprayable landfill cover product made from recovered paper and polymers letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2006 Industry news London Mayor threatened with “costly” recycling court clash Enfield councillor says Ken Livingstone is using borough to justify his bid for more waste powers in London letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2006 Industry news Dacorum introduces mini-recycling points for flats Hertfordshire borough designs special five-bin recycling points for residents living in flats letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2006 Industry news News in Brief With news of recycling in Cherwell; Waste bags turned into fashion; Recycling for the blind; and WRAP&#39s Recycle Now campaign letsrecycle.com News · 9 Mar 2006 Industry news Camden takes action to cut plastic bag use London borough steps up campaign to reduce consumption of plastic bags by residents and calls for national action letsrecycle.com News · 9 Mar 2006 Industry news HotRot step closer to animal by-product compliance Company&#39s Seamer Carr facility passes first test in bid to compost all food waste at its facilities letsrecycle.com News · 8 Mar 2006 Industry news North London&#39s largest composting plant opens in Edmonton 5 million composting centre opened at Edmonton to treat food waste from Barnet, Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest letsrecycle.com News · 8 Mar 2006 Industry news Midland Mainline leads recycling awareness initiative Train firm produces awareness-raising programme for 20 schools in Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield letsrecycle.com News · 8 Mar 2006 Industry news Mayor demands new recycling centre for Enfield Ken Livingstone issues formal direction to London borough that sold its recycling centre off to property developers letsrecycle.com News · 8 Mar 2006 Industry news Research reveals potential for use of compost in Yorkshire Recycling Action Yorkshire says huge "land bank" available for spreading of composted green waste in Yorkshire and Humberside letsrecycle.com News · 7 Mar 2006 Industry news Deadline relaxed after auditors refuse to vet reprocessors Packaging reprocessors given more time to audit figures after delay in guidance means many auditors refused to assess them letsrecycle.com News · 7 Mar 2006 Industry news 14,386 bill for Somerset company that avoided recycling Cabinet-maker Cooper B-Line pays out after pleading guilty to avoiding producer responsibility to pay for packaging recycling letsrecycle.com News · 7 Mar 2006 Industry news WRAP in bid to reduce own environmental impact After rapid growth, Waste & Resources Action Programme seeks ways to minimise impact of its 165 staff letsrecycle.com News · 7 Mar 2006 Industry news Investors now favour “high risk, high reward” waste PFI Law firm Norton Rose says financiers have newfound appetite for waste sector because of potential for high returns letsrecycle.com News · 7 Mar 2006 Industry news Defra confirms new national database for packaging recovery 350,000 project funded largely by business will be set up to help improve accuracy of packaging recovery note market and cut fraud letsrecycle.com News · 6 Mar 2006 Industry news Leeds proposes energy-from-waste to hit government targets Council seeks residents&#39 views on options needed to avoid potential fines of 200m from the landfilling of too much waste letsrecycle.com News · 6 Mar 2006 Industry news London students offered new recycling facilities Recycling services to be rolled out for students across capital after study shows them to be potentially good recyclers letsrecycle.com News · 6 Mar 2006 Industry news Tetra Pak pledges “major programme” of recycling support Responding to recent concerns, packaging firm says "substantial" funds will be offered to help councils recycle cartons letsrecycle.com News · 3 Mar 2006 Industry news Waste industry alert after nine deaths in eight weeks Health and Safety Executive calls for changes in waste industry procedures after series of fatal incidents letsrecycle.com News · 3 Mar 2006 Industry news Biffa issues cold weather warning to nation’s homeless Waste firm Biffa Waste Services warns homeless people of risk to their lives from sleeping in bins during current cold snap letsrecycle.com News · 3 Mar 2006 Industry news Four waste firms in running for Southwark PFI contract London borough names shortlist for 25-year Private Finance Initiative collection and disposal contract letsrecycle.com News · 3 Mar 2006 Industry news Knowledge Transfer Network launched to cut business waste Resource Efficiency Knowledge Transfer Network to assist business sector improve use of materials and resources letsrecycle.com News · 2 Mar 2006 Industry news Consumers urged to lobby councils to recycle Tetra Paks Innocent Drinks calls on customers to write to local authorities demanding introduction of carton recycling schemes letsrecycle.com News · 2 Mar 2006 Industry news Bath to reconsider changing point-of-collection for waste Councillors claim executive&#39s decision to switch point-of-collection to edge of properties did not take into account residents&#39 views letsrecycle.com News · 2 Mar 2006 Industry news Study suggests WEEE could be collected from kerbsides Project in Hampshire says that kerbside collections of electronic waste are a possibility as long as residents are eco-friendly minded letsrecycle.com News · 2 Mar 2006 Industry news UK “no longer dirty man of Europe” CIWM Chartered Institution of Wastes Management declares end of an era, with UK "revolution" on the recycling of waste letsrecycle.com News · 1 Mar 2006 Industry news UK leads way on resource flows thanks to Mass Balance study Biffaward-funded Mass Balance programme praised for "astonishing contribution" as it launches final report letsrecycle.com News · 1 Mar 2006 Industry news Loughborough recycling centre in 1.7 million revamp Leicestershire county council transforms recycling centre to improve resident access, with new split-level system letsrecycle.com News · 1 Mar 2006 Industry news WRAP defends use of public funds in Heinz can trials Waste and Resources Action Programme insists 250,000 handout to foodmaker Heinz will speed up waste reduction work letsrecycle.com News · 28 Feb 2006 Industry news Majority of packaging schemes report 2005 compliance Most packaging waste compliance schemes have met legal obligations to recycle packaging waste, letsrecycle.com survey finds letsrecycle.com News · 28 Feb 2006 Industry news Axion to trial mobile recycling service Company will use a shredder loaded onto a lorry to deal with expensive to transport rigid plastics letsrecycle.com News · 28 Feb 2006 Industry news Recycling message hits supermarket shelves in Bristol Council works with Asda, Sainsburys and Waitrose to urge shoppers to recycle, but other "major" supermarkets refuse to co-operate letsrecycle.com News · 28 Feb 2006 Industry news London tax bills “would rise under single waste authority” Western Riverside Waste Authority claims Council Tax bills would go up by 135 if Mayor took control of waste across London letsrecycle.com News · 28 Feb 2006 Industry news Suez board approves merger with Gaz de France Parent group of waste firm SITA UK to merge with French national gas company, SITA says workers should be unaffected letsrecycle.com News · 27 Feb 2006 Industry news Swansea keeps it clean with new paper recycling facility Working with reprocessors Aylesford Newsprint, Swansea council establishes paper-only bulking facility to keep quality high letsrecycle.com News · 27 Feb 2006 Industry news West Sussex recycling push aided by new recycling centre Viridor opens bulking station and household recycling centre at Westhampnett in latest attempt to boost county&#39s recycling rate letsrecycle.com News · 27 Feb 2006 Industry news Compulsory recycling spreads in London Hackney joins Barnet in introducing compulsory recycling trial for street-level housing letsrecycle.com News · 27 Feb 2006 Industry news Blaze hits Shropshire paper recycler, arson ruled out Fire brigade says yesterday&#39s fire at Oswestry Waste Paper not suspicious, despite arsonists striking the area the previous night letsrecycle.com News · 24 Feb 2006 Industry news Guernsey rolls out kerbside recycling the hard way Council begins kerbside recycling trials, starting in areas with a high proportion of flats and multi-occupancy households letsrecycle.com News · 24 Feb 2006 Industry news Tetra Pak collection trial not going to plan in Norfolk Collection bins at household civic amenity sites are being contaminated by plastic bottles, council says letsrecycle.com News · 24 Feb 2006