Recycling news: 2015

Industry news Three achieve gold in Zero Waste Awards Three companies have been bestowed with gold Zero Waste Awards for showing commitment to preventing, reusing and recycling waste. Soft drink label manufacturer Americk Webtech, the New York Bakery Company and WEEE Recycler RDC have all achieved a ‘gold rating’ for their innovative approach to achieving zero waste, following the latest round of judging in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 18 Mar 2015 Industry news Viridor brings cyclist safety to London waste fleet Viridor has fitted its London-based waste collection vehicles with sideguards and sensors, to help prevent collisions on the road with cyclists. Over 50 rigid vehicles from the Canning Town and Iver South depots have been fitted with a range of measures aimed at minimising potential hazards to road users. These include side guard bars to … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 18 Mar 2015 Industry news Chancellor gives Agency £4.2m to tackle waste crime There were no surprises in terms of the rate of landfill tax to be charged in coming years in today’s Budget, but there was a big announcement on extra funding to tackle waste crime. The Budget documents reveal that Chancellor George Osborne is to change the cap on contributions by landfill operators to the Landfill … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 18 Mar 2015 Industry news Humber Wood Recycling wins at Green Energy Awards 2015 A massive well-done to Humber Wood Recycling Project, who won in the ‘Engaging the Community’ category in this year’s Humber Renewables & Green Energy Awards. Community Wood Recycling · 18 Mar 2015 Industry news £4.2m Scottish Borders waste contract claim dropped A multi-million pound legal claim linked to the scrapped Scottish Borders waste treatment contract has been dropped. The claim against Scottish Borders council was raised in the Court of Session in August 2013, dating back to claims made in 2011 by Barry Phelps, director of London-based management consultancy D&P Management Enterprises. Mr Phelps was engaged … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 18 Mar 2015 Industry news Monoworld fined for illegally exporting waste A Bedfordshire-based plastics and paper recycling firm has been ordered to pay more than £23,000 after attempting to illegally export mixed waste to Germany and China. Monoworld Ltd, of Sharnbrook, was sentenced at Northamptonshire Magistrates’ Court after the company admitted sending the waste without the prior written notification and consent of the authorities. The Court … Read More The post… letsrecycle.com News · 18 Mar 2015 Industry news Shanks delivers first RDF to Ferrybridge Multifuel plant Shanks has delivered the load of first refuse derived fuel (RDF) for incineration at the 570,000 tonnes-per-year capacity Ferrybridge Multifuel 1(FM1) facility in West Yorkshire. The plant has been built as part of a joint venture between energy and gas supplier SSE plc and Wheelabrator – Multifuel Energy Limited (MEL). FM1 is located at the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Mar 2015 Industry news FCC fined after Watford worker killed by loading shovel FCC Waste Services has been ordered to pay £265,000 after a worker was struck and killed by a vehicle at the firm’s Waterdale waste transfer station in Watford. Patrick Murphy, 58, who had worked as a groundsman at the waste transfer station since 2004, was run over by a JCB loading shovel on-site in August … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Mar 2015 Industry news East Staffordshire considers three-weekly collections East Staffordshire borough council has become the latest local authority to consider operating its residual waste collection service once every three weeks. The council is considering the measure in a bid to cut operational costs and reduce the amount of food waste disposed of by residents in residual bins. Currently, the authority collects residual in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Mar 2015 Industry news Westminster panel calls for “green industrial revolution” Labour MP Barry Sheerman has called for a “green industrial revolution” at the unveiling of a report on resource policy recommendations in Westminster yesterday (March 16). And, the member of parliament for Huddersfield added that he would like to see more engagement with the electorate on agendas such as the circular economy and climate change. … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Mar 2015 Industry news Maddan hails growth of organics sector The organics recycling industry has been hailed as a sector which has grown from being “a tiny little pea to a 10 million tonne vine”. The analogy was drawn last week by Alexander Maddan, chair of the Organics Recycling Group of the Renewable Energy Association, while addressing members at their annual conference held at Horwood … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Mar 2015 Industry news DCLG recycling fund soars from £5m to £11m Eric Pickles’ Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has today (March 16) announced that 46 successful bids are to receive funding through its Recycling Rewards Scheme. The scheme, which was originally offering funding totalling £5 million, has now been extended to offer a total of £11.1 million to local authorities, after the Department opted … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Mar 2015 Industry news Moffett Forklift Truck for Packaged Waste What is a Moffett forklift truck? A Moffett forklift truck is a type of forklift vehicle that is able to attach itself to another vehicle, as shown in the image above. Why is a Moffett forklift truck necessary for packaged waste? CSG and J&G have invested in this type of forklift truck to provide additional […] CSG (Cleansing Service Group) · 16 Mar 2015 Industry news MetalMatters launches in Wrexham The first MetalMatters campaign of 2015 sees people living in Wrexham being urged to make their ‘metals matter’ by recycling more of the estimated 58.4 million items of metal packaging they use in their homes every year.* Used metal packaging can be recycled endlessly into new products at a far lower cost to industry, and […] Alupro · 16 Mar 2015 Industry news Court rejects Beddington EfW appeal application A legal challenge against Viridor’s proposed £200 million energy from waste plant in South London has been rejected by the Court of Appeal. Protest group Stop the South London Incinerator brought its case against the London borough of Sutton council – over its decision to grant the Beddington Energy Recovery Facility planning permission in March … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Mar 2015 Industry news Roydon hit by ‘severe’ fire at Swinton plastics site Firefighters have extinguished a major fire at a plastic recycling plant operated by Roydon Group in Swinton, Greater Manchester, that broke out yesterday afternoon (March 15). Eight fire engines were used to tackle the blaze at the site at Units 1-3 Rake Lane close to the M60 motorway, after having been called out at 4.40 … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Mar 2015 Industry news Sheffield proposes shared bins for residents Residents on certain streets in Sheffield could be asked to share their bins, under city council plans to save £3.4 million across its waste and recycling services by 2017. According to the council, the shared bin scheme would be rolled out on specific streets where households have multiple occupants, such as student areas. The scheme … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Mar 2015 Industry news POWERDAY AWARDED FORS GOLD Powerday has been awarded the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) gold accreditation, the highest standard of the Transport for London scheme. View our case study here. FORS is designed to help ... Powerday · 16 Mar 2015 Industry news Tackling food waste to feed the world With less than 10 days to go until Waste-Works at the ExCeL Centre in London (March 22-25), the waste and resource event dedicated to the food and drink industry, WRAP’s director of sustainable food systems and technical lead Dr Richard Swannell explains how tackling food waste could solve the challenge of feeding the world’s growing … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 13 Mar 2015 Industry news Kent councils hear commodity market concerns The head of the waste sector trade body the Environmental Services Association (ESA) has called for cooperation between councils, government and industry to help weather a difficult period for the resources industry. Jacob Hayler, who has been executive director at the ESA since the turn of the year, made the comments at the Kent Resource … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 13 Mar 2015 Industry news Q4 2014 packaging data indicates strong year for glass Compliance schemes welcomed publication of the final provisional packaging waste recovery statistics for 2014 yesterday (March 12), showing the market appears to have met its obligations for the year. The Q4 figures for September – December 2014, which are available on the National Packaging Waste Database, also show a large carry over in glass and … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 13 Mar 2015 Industry news Dorset Waste Partnership to deliver ‘action plan’ Councillors charged with overseeing the Dorset Waste Partnership have agreed on a 37-point action plan to redress problems that led to the public body’s £2.76 million overspend. And, Steve Mackenzie – chief executive of Purbeck district council – will take “overall responsibility” to ensure the plan is delivered following the suspension of director Steve Burdis … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 13 Mar 2015 Industry news SecondhandFirst Styles. Winner Announced! Last month we held the first in a series of Late Night events planned for 2015. We invited everyone to... TRAID · 13 Mar 2015 Industry news Labour MP: Coalition has ‘patronised’ waste industry The Labour Party will put “resource security” at the heart of its economic plan if it wins the General Election in May, Barry Gardiner MP has assured the waste industry in a scathing appraisal of the current government. And, Mr Gardiner confirmed that a Labour government would be committed to giving the Green Investment Bank … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 13 Mar 2015 Industry news SITA UK rebrands as Suez Environnement Waste and recycling services provider SITA UK has rebranded as SUEZ Environnement today (March 12), adopting ‘a new position’ in the management of resources. SITA UK, the UK division of the global SUEZ Environnement Group, will join the other subsidiaries within the group in operating under a single name. The firm will become the Recycling … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news Office for Resource Management ‘would not neglect environment’ Supporters of plans for an Office for Resource Management (ORM) within government have defended the environmental benefits of the policy. The comments come as a delegation of resource and environmental organisations deliver a paper before Parliament today, calling for a separate unit to advise on waste policy within government. The ORM would operate as a … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news Wandsworth uses route map to assess TEEP compliance Commingled collections in the London borough of Wandsworth are to remain after the council’s in-house TEEP assessment deemed that changes are not necessary to bring it in line with legal requirements for separate collection. A report to the council’s Housing and Community Services committee, which met last month, considered whether the council’s current collection service … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news Edinburgh to remove trade waste bins from streets Edinburgh city council is to enforce a ban on leaving trade waste bins out on the city’s streets from next month. The city council piloted the proposed scheme early last year (see letsrecycle.com story) and has opted to phase in the policy across the city beginning in April. As a result of the policy change … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news POWERDAY HELPS DELIVER NEW BOXING CLUB IN HARINGEY Powerday celebrated the opening of the new Selby Boxing Club last week which they helped to deliver through their partnership with London Amateur Boxing Association. After two years of attracting ove... Powerday · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news CELEBRATE ST PATRICK’S DAY WITH LONDON IRISH Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with London Irish Rugby Football Club when they play Newcastle Falcons on 28th March. The fun starts at 11.00am at the Madejski stadium and the club is offering great val... Powerday · 12 Mar 2015 Industry news Palm offers paper market reassurance The UK’s largest manufacturer of newsprint from used newspapers and magazines has moved to reassure local authorities and businesses that it is “fully-committed” to the UK recovered paper sector. Palm Recycling, which supplies material for the German-owned Palm Paper mill in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, confirmed that the newsprint industry “has been under immense pressure”. But, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Sargeant announces Welsh recycling review Wales’ natural resources minister Carl Sargeant has announced that the Welsh Government will carry out a review of its guidance on waste and recycling collections. The minister was responding to recommendations made in the Environment and Sustainability Committee report on Recycling in Wales, and stated that he was pleased that the Committee had recognised the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Cardiff councillors question Welsh recycling target Cardiff council has proposed rolling out smaller residual bins for some 96,000 households, amid criticism that the 58% recycling target set by the Welsh Government is ‘exceptionally high’. Growing unease within the council’s environmental scrutiny committee that Cardiff will be unable to meet the 2016 objective comes ahead of the expected announcement that the Welsh … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Wales to announce recycling policy review Reaching the statutory Welsh Government target of 70% recycling by 2025 will be “far more difficult than reaching the present position”, one of Wales top environment politicians declared yesterday. The warning came from Alan Ffred Jones, a former leader of Gwynedd council, who is now chair of the environment and sustainability committee of the National … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Councils grapple with commodity price falls The recent fall in the price of recovered commodities such as paper and plastic could not have come at a worse time for local authorities who are already struggling with budget cuts, senior figures in the sector have warned. And, some have raised fears that councils may be forced to change services if commodity values … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Agency waste raids lead to trafficking arrests Six arrests were made following dawn raids on four suspected illegal waste sites across England by the Environment Agency yesterday (March 10), with possible links to forced labour uncovered at one of the sites. According to the Agency the action follows an investigation into illegal dumping of potentially hazardous waste at illegal sites in Bristol, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 11 Mar 2015 Industry news Driving the RDF market forward Oliver Latter, managing director of Boomeco, discusses the growing RDF market and investment in technology to support it. Processing domestic waste into fuel is a new and emerging industry. In 2010, it didn’t really exist in the UK, but this year, around two million tonnes is expected to be exported to Europe, which has the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2015 Industry news Ella’s Kitchen launches recycling initiative Children’s food brand Ella’s Kitchen has launched a recycling scheme for its baby food pouches in collaboration with multinational recycling firm Terracycle. The ‘Ellacycle’ scheme aims to help parents recycle the pouches, which are not collected for recycling by local authorities. It is encouraging them to set up pouch collection points in public places such … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2015 Industry news Scottish MRF Code to apply from April The legislation requiring operators of materials sorting facilities in Scotland to measure the quality of the recyclable material that they receive and sort becomes law from next month. This comes after the Waste (Recyclate Quality) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 which were laid in Parliament last week. The requirement to measure the quality of input and output … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2015 Industry news Gloucester to assess possible commingling switch Gloucester city council and its recycling contractor Amey are considering a move to fortnightly commingled collections from 2016, which they plan to assess against TEEP requirements. The council’s current weekly kerbside sort contract with Amey runs until 2022 with the option to extend to 2027. Dry recycling is collected each week in green boxes, alongside … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 10 Mar 2015