Recycling news: 2009

Industry news News in Brief With news on WRAP logistics best practice, a paper appointment and vehicle signage letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jan 2009 Industry news Staffordshire EfW gets final go-ahead Plans for £600m PFI-funded EfW plant given green-light by Government Office for West Midlands letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jan 2009 Industry news Leicestershire announces PFI long-list Eight bidders in the running for contract to build £137m treatment facility letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jan 2009 Industry news No applicants for recycling incentive pilots Minister confirms no councils have expressed an interest as deadline for applications passes letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jan 2009 Industry news SITA UK unveils plans for Surrey IVC facility Public exhibitions held for 120,000 tonne-a-year capacity plant at Runfold landfill site letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jan 2009 Industry news Yorkshire autoclave plant to double capacity Sterecycle announces £10 million investment after winning planning approval to expand Rotherham site letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jan 2009 Industry news BREW announces first funding for public sector Defra-funded body to back public sector resource efficiency projects for the first time letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jan 2009 Industry news WRAP praises council recycling efforts Local authorities and householders congratulated for "keeping it going", despite market situation letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jan 2009 Industry news Plymouth defends four day collection system Council claims issues with new practices are "teething problems", in wake of critical media reports letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jan 2009 Industry news Councils reveal best practice for cutting waste Waste Improvement Network research highlights importance of collections and bin size letsrecycle.com News · 20 Jan 2009 Industry news News in Brief With news on the cancellation of the CV Show, a letter to Jane Kennedy and Viridor Glass letsrecycle.com News · 19 Jan 2009 Industry news WRAP critic elected as Tory party chairman Conservative Party front-bench reshuffle sees Eric Pickles handed party chairman role letsrecycle.com News · 19 Jan 2009 Industry news Merseyside set to purchase 3.4m worth of LATs Uncertainty over interim measures to divert waste as authority approves purchase at £20 a tonne letsrecycle.com News · 19 Jan 2009 Industry news Support for metal Lindsay Millington outlines her hopes for metal recycling in 2009 letsrecycle.com News · 19 Jan 2009 Industry news Trousdell set to become AFOR chairman Charlie Trousdell to take up reins at organic recycling association this month letsrecycle.com News · 18 Jan 2009 Industry news Greencycle hits out at its media portrayal Company featuring heavily in reports on stockpiling says it is moving material letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jan 2009 Industry news UPM strikes two year deal to take Norfolk paper Paper mill extends contract for 34,000 tonnes of paper a year from NEWS letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jan 2009 Industry news Defra in European bank talks over Manchester PFI Department involved with bid as councillors also reflect on actions if contract talks fail letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jan 2009 Industry news Outrage over “ridiculously expensive” battery plans Draft regulations attacked by industry over costs to producers and consumers letsrecycle.com News · 16 Jan 2009 Industry news Waste organisations sign five year safety charter Fifteen bodies pledge to reduce reportable accidents as part of wider safety initiative letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jan 2009 Industry news SITA buys 2 million commercial business in South Wales Waste firm completes £2m purchase of Swansea-based business from Shanks letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jan 2009 Industry news Plain wrong to link commingled collections with poor quality Recycling company Greenstar UK says it is moving material at its Aldridge MRF letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jan 2009 Industry news BERR urges industry to seize opportunity on batteries Department emphasises importance of responses to batteries and WEEE consultations letsrecycle.com News · 15 Jan 2009 Industry news Veolia fined over 100,000 for toxic fumes UK's largest waste company prosecuted following incident at Merseyside hazardous waste facility letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jan 2009 Industry news Bedfordshire agrees MRF contract with Community Waste However, move could lead to redundancies at Elstow facility run by current contractor Shanks letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jan 2009 Industry news Joy Blizzard named new chair of LARAC Waste initiatives officer for Shropshire Waste Partnership elected at meeting yesterday letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jan 2009 Industry news Defra failure could see 2013 targets missed National Audit Office claims department "sat on its hands" after EU landfill directive was published letsrecycle.com News · 14 Jan 2009 Industry news Reprocessors call for quality recycling amid downturn Letter sent to Welsh environment minister Jane Davidson criticising commingled collections letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jan 2009 Industry news News in Brief With news on the funeral date of John Connor; health and safety; a sorting trial; and an AFOR appointment letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jan 2009 Industry news National Metal Theft Crime Unit launched Six-week pilot initiative to target "major headache" of metals theft - despite demand for metals falling letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jan 2009 Industry news Multi-million pound West Devon contract out to tender Waste management contract for West Devon borough council advertised in OJEU letsrecycle.com News · 13 Jan 2009 Industry news Nottinghamshire gives green light to 90m EfW County council grants planning permission to Veolia for energy recovery facility planned under PFI deal letsrecycle.com News · 12 Jan 2009 Industry news Verdant secures 50 million deal in Oxfordshire First joint council contract for Kent-based waste management company letsrecycle.com News · 12 Jan 2009 Industry news News in Brief With news on BREW funding for SMEs, North Devon's recycling rate and food waste in Swansea letsrecycle.com News · 12 Jan 2009 Industry news MARKET REPORT: Steel and aluminium cans Corus not looking at buying cans until late 2009 as Novelis re-opens its doors letsrecycle.com News · 12 Jan 2009 Industry news Six bidders shortlisted for major Northern Irish contract Companies in running to deliver multi-million pound EfW and MBT contract for arc21 group of councils letsrecycle.com News · 12 Jan 2009 Industry news Councils urged to consider composting stored paper and card However, Association for Organics Recycling warns that only some types of material suitable letsrecycle.com News · 9 Jan 2009 Industry news Waste firms respond to “misleading” media coverage Veolia, Viridor and ESA comment on current state of materials market in wake of press reports letsrecycle.com News · 9 Jan 2009 Industry news Average weights for reuse updated Tool for calculating volume of items reused to be unveiled at Furniture Re-Use Network annual conference today letsrecycle.com News · 9 Jan 2009 Industry news LARAC set to elect new chair A number of contenders in the running to succeed current chair Lee Marshall letsrecycle.com News · 9 Jan 2009