Recycling news: 2015

Industry news Exposed: Impact of industry lobbying – and potentially TTIP – on regulation of hormone disrupting chemicals Two recent reports have highlighted the way in which certain industries have been lobbying against EU regulation of hormone disrupting chemicals. The first, by Corporate Europe Observatory and journalist Stéphane Horel: “exposes corporate lobby groups mobilising to stop the EU taking action on hormone (endocrine) disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The report sheds light on how corporations […] CHEM Trust · 3 Jun 2015 Industry news Defra confirms waste brief for Rory Stewart Defra has confirmed that Rory Stewart’s responsibilities in the new government will include the waste and recycling brief. Mr Stewart, who sits as MP for Penrith and The Border, was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the department following the general election in May (see letsrecycle.com story). He is one of three ministers … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Jun 2015 Industry news EU Conference on hormone disrupters: What did we learn? CHEM Trust was among the many participants in yesterday’s European Commission conference on hormone (or endocrine) disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The Commission’s Health Department (DG Santé) had organised the conference to discuss the next steps of an impact assessment on the potential socio-economic impacts of draft criteria to identify EDCs. Once finalised, these criteria will be applied in se… CHEM Trust · 2 Jun 2015 Industry news Hereford firm handed £18,000 illegal waste storage fine Herefordshire-based recycling and skip hire firm Eastside 2000 Ltd (E2L), a part of the Wye Valley Group, has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to illegal storage of demolition waste at a site in Hereford. According to the Environment Agency, which brought the charge against the company, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Jun 2015 Industry news Hazardous waste classification changes come into force The way hazardous chemical waste is assessed and classified is changing significantly. From this week (June 1), new European rules governing the classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals – known as The European Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation (CLP) – have come into force in the UK, requiring many hazardous waste chemicals to be assessed … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Jun 2015 Industry news Q1 2015 WEEE collection sees dual use boost Collection data for the first quarter of 2015 published by the Environment Agency shows that the UK has made strong progress towards meeting its WEEE recycling target for the year. Progress has been aided by a change in guidance on the classification of business and household electrical goods, which is likely to mean that more … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Jun 2015 Industry news ReFood completes £6m Doncaster AD expansion German-owned food waste recycler ReFood has completed a £6 million expansion of its Doncaster anaerobic digestion (AD) facility, which the firm now claims is the largest plant of its kind in the UK. After an ‘extensive development programme’ got underway in April 2014, the Doncaster facility’s capacity has doubled so that it can now process … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Jun 2015 Industry news Rotherham metal recycler fined for safety failings A Rotherham-based metal recycling firm has been fine £15,000 after a worker’s arm was drawn into unguarded machinery. C F Booth Ltd was sentenced at Rotherham Magistrates Court yesterday (June 1) over serious safety dangers on a conveyor at its Armer Street site in December 2013. The Court heard that Ryan Jackson, a 25-year-old worker … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 2 Jun 2015 Industry news ALL OUR LATEST NEWS IN OUR SUMMER NEWSLETTER As summer officially begins, we welcome you to our summer newsletter 2015. Read about our new Enfield Materials Recycling Facility, our refuse derived fuel and waste wood contracts, our latest accredi... Powerday · 1 Jun 2015 Industry news UNU Report Reveals Insufficiency of Global WEEE Recycling Der Beitrag UNU Report Reveals Insufficiency erschien zuerst auf United Kingdom (EN) . ERP UK (European Recycling Platform) · 1 Jun 2015 Industry news Croydon and Veolia collection teams merge Croydon council staff and Veolia workers contracted to carry out waste collections and street cleaning in the borough are set to merge into smaller teams from today (June 1). The restructure, which aims to provide a “better, faster” service to Croydon’s residents, will see the council and its contractors join forces to cover collections in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Jun 2015 Industry news Virdor’s Crawley HWRC site damaged after vehicle fire A Viridor-run household waste recycling centre in Crawley has suffered heat and smoke damage after the back of a waste lorry caught fire inside the site’s main depot building on Friday afternoon (May 29). West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service was called to the scene at 4.19pm, where it said the entire single-storey HWRC building … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Jun 2015 Industry news Landfill tax generated £1.1bn in 2014 UK landfill tax revenue stood at more than £1.1 billion in 2014, almost 10 times the income raised from the tax when it was introduced in 1996. And, landfill tax made up over 75% of contributions to pollution and resource taxes in 2014, which as a grouping comprised 3.4% of the total environmental tax revenue … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Jun 2015 Industry news Norfolk and Suffolk extend cross-border EfW agreement Norfolk has agreed a four-year extension to its short-term deal with Suffolk council to send around 40,000 tonnes of waste per year to its neighbour authority’s Great Blakenham energy from waste plant until 2020. The county council is currently in the process of tendering a long-term waste treatment deal to cover the total 210,000 tonnes … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Jun 2015 Industry news Important changes to Waste Classification and Assessment - WasteCare WasteCare · 1 Jun 2015 Industry news PRN funding ‘a barrier’ to 50% recycling progress A lack of transparency in the packaging recovery note (PRN) system is hampering progress towards the 50% by 2020 household waste recycling target, plastics recycling body Recoup has claimed. The comments came in the organisation’s response to the government’s consultation on changes to the Packaging Regulations and to seek views on where the packaging waste … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 May 2015 Industry news Protocol could aid operators after landfill tax changes Skip hire trade body UROC is developing a Quality Protocol that could enable operators to prove that their waste loads are likely to qualify for disposal at the lower rate of landfill tax. The Quality Protocol would be a ‘short guidance document’ that details the application of the law in relation to the disposal of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 May 2015 Industry news R&WUK lays out waste priorities for government Resources & Waste UK – the joint lobbying body made up of ESA and CIWM– has fired its opening salvo with a six-point manifesto aimed at addressing the ‘serious challenges’ faced by the waste and recycling sector. The Environmental Services Association (ESA) and Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) formed R&WUK late last year, in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 May 2015 Industry news EU circular economy consultation launched The European Commission today (May 28) launched a 12-week public consultation on the main policy options which it says will feed into the development of an “ambitious new approach” on the circular economy. According to the Commission, stakeholders’ views will be put towards the preparation of a revised proposal on the waste review and a … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 28 May 2015 Industry news Welsh Government must ‘tread carefully’ on landfill tax The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has welcomed moves to devolved powers for control of landfill tax to the Welsh Government, but has warned landfill operators may not want ‘major system changes’ in the way the tax is currently administered. The Welsh Government is currently drawing up plans for how it will administer its Landfill … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 28 May 2015 Industry news Gwynedd extends three-weekly collection roll out Gwynedd council in North West Wales is continuing the roll-out of its three-weekly collection scheme for residual waste, with a new collection timetable coming into effect for parts of the borough from next week (June 1). Households in the Dwyfor district were the first in the borough to receive a change to their service, after … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 28 May 2015 Industry news Charities handed £190,000 for packaging non-compliance Businesses that failed to comply with laws designed to encourage the recycling of waste packaging paid more than £189,000 to charities to avoid legal action from the Environment Agency between September 2014 and April 2015. Figures published this month by the Agency show that a total of 15 businesses had failed to register with a … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 27 May 2015 Industry news Equipment news round-up (27/05/2015) With news on; CK Services bin distribution; Axion data logger; Doppstadt trommel screen safety; Frogsons Waste Management fleet tracking, and; LondonWaste invests in new fleet CK Services distributes green waste bins Oadby & Wigston borough council has appointed CK Services to carry out distribution of wheelie bins for its new garden waste collection service. … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 27 May 2015 Industry news How to love your neighbours and the environment with a Big Lunch Mark it in your diaries! Sunday 7 June 2015 is the seventh annual Big Lunch. If you’re wondering what a Big Lunch is, it’s a fantastic initiative from the Eden Project. How many of you really know your neighbours, have a relationship with them or even know their names? The aim of the Big Lunch… Zero Waste Week · 27 May 2015 Industry news ACP to help define packaging contamination The Advisory Committee on Packaging (ACP) is to develop a ‘standardised’ definition of contamination in packaging waste – to be submitted to the Environment Agency for consideration as guidance this summer. A consultation, outlined by the Defra-backed committee last month, has already yielded some responses with reprocessors, exporters and compliance schemes asked whether more specific … Read M… letsrecycle.com News · 27 May 2015 Industry news ‘No direct link’ between oil and plastic scrap prices Fluctuations in crude oil prices and the value of plastics scrap are not exclusively linked, the chairman of the Bureau of International Recycling’s plastics committee has claimed. Surendra Borad made the comments during his address at the BIR’s annual convention in Dubai last week (May 20), during which he presented his thoughts on the current … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 27 May 2015 Industry news “Haunted” Heysel faces demolition… - Demolition News Demolition News · 27 May 2015 Industry news Capital expenditure: ‘getting what you pay for’ Managing director of Whitham Mills Engineering, Ben Smart, explores approaches to capital expenditure in the waste and resources sector. Shaped as we are by the forces of policy makers, there are few absolute long-term certainties in our sector. You will be as familiar as I am about how we are required to bend to the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 May 2015 Industry news Compost contamination issue highlighted on BBC TV An organic waste recycling sector body has renewed calls for better communication to tackle garden waste contamination after the problem was highlighted on BBC’s Countryfile TV programme on Sunday evening (May 24). Contaminants such as metals and plastics sometimes find their way into garden waste, which is then processed into compost and used on farmland, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 May 2015 Industry news Export instability puts pressure on textile recyclers Turbulence in Africa and the Middle East coupled with further strengthening of sterling is putting ‘downward pressure’ on UK export prices for used clothing, the Bureau of International Recycling has been told. Addressing BIR’s textiles division at the annual convention in Dubai, Alan Wheeler, director of the UK’s Textile Recycling Association (TRA), told delegates that … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 May 2015 Industry news Wheelabrator EfW gets green light after council U-turn A decision by Flintshire county council to block construction of a 200,000 tonne-per-year capacity energy from waste plant in Deeside has been overturned, over concerns that the ruling was a ‘significant’ departure from council policy. Wheelabrator’s proposed Parc Adfer facility was approved by seven votes to six at a special meeting of county councillors on … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 May 2015 Industry news Jail for Burton illegal waste site operator The operator of an illegal waste site at Eggington, near Burton-on-Trent has been handed a seven-month prison sentence following a court hearing at Stafford Crown Court last month. Robert Murphy, 48, of Ravens Way, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire was sentenced on April 30, following a hearing relating to the operation a waste facility on land close to … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 May 2015 Industry news Keenan awarded £4m Aberdeen contract extension Aberdeenshire-based organic waste reprocessor Keenan Recycling has been awarded a four-year extension to its contract to treat green and food waste on behalf of Suez Environnement, worth £4 million. The food and garden waste comes from households in Aberdeen, collected through Suez’s long term waste and recycling contract with Aberdeen city council. Keenan Recycling has … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 May 2015 Industry news Pockels' trough - Chemistry World Chemistry World · 25 May 2015 Industry news Eric Pickles to be given Knighthood The architect of the government’s £250 million weekly waste fund, former Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, is to be knighted for his services to local government, it has been announced. Mr Pickles, who has been MP for Brentwood and Ongar since 1992, served as the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2010 to … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 May 2015 Industry news Northern Ireland’s waste crime strategy under fire Northern Ireland’s regulatory body for the waste industry has been told to develop a ‘more rigorous’ strategy for tackling waste crime, according to a review carried out by a leading legal body. Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJI) was asked to carry out a review into efforts by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) to … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 May 2015 Industry news Averies Recycling directors to appear in court The former directors of Averies Recycling will appear at Swindon Magistrates Court next month (June 22) to face criminal charges brought by the Environment Agency for breaches of the Environmental Protection Act. The charges have been brought against Averies’ former director of the Swindon waste firm, David Averies, and his brother Lee, who took over … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 May 2015 Industry news Stitch In Shepherd’s Bush On the second anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse TRAID Shepherd’s Bush hosted a live art installation. ©NellyRock Organised... TRAID · 21 May 2015 Industry news Appointments round-up (21/05/15) With news on; Robert Longley-Cook joins WRAP as trustee; Ted Pierpont appointed to BHS; Unwin joins Wastecycle, and; three new board members for ADBA. Robert Longley-Cook joins WRAP as trustee WRAP has announced the appointment of experienced charity figure and former oil industry executive Robert Longley-Cook to its board of trustees. Mr Longley-Cook joins WRAP … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 21 May 2015 Industry news Cement plant converts kilns for waste fuel Around 80,000 tonnes of waste-derived fuel per year is to be used to power two kilns at the “largest” cement plant in the UK. The Hope Works cement plant in Derbyshire will take in solid recovered fuel (SRF) from Lincolnshire-based waste firm Mid UK Recycling Ltd as well as councils in the surrounding area. The … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 21 May 2015