Recycling news: 2016

Industry news Belfast to launch segregated food waste collection pilot Belfast City Council is starting a weekly food waste collection pilot scheme in the areas of Stranmillis and Malone. The collections start tomorrow, 2 February, for 8 weeks and will see the areas move from a brown bin for commingled garden and food waste to separate smaller green food waste caddies, although residents are also … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 1 Feb 2016 Industry news Careers - Mick George - Construction Industry Leaders - Mick George Mick George Group · 31 Jan 2016 Industry news Investors - Greggs Corporate Greggs corporate media · 30 Jan 2016 Industry news Food waste bill misses parliamentary slot The second reading of the Food Waste (Reduction) Bill missed its slot in the House of Commons today (29 January) due to an overrunning first bill and two urgent questions and now seems more likely to fail. The non-hearing of the bill is expected to come as a blow to Shadow Environment Secretary and Bristol … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Jan 2016 Industry news The Week in Waste – 29 January 2016 Take a look at the ‘Week in Waste’ video report. In this week’s report by letsrecycle.com, sponsored by Biffa, we report on a potential boost for PRNs from mixed paper, and on the use of plastic bags in food waste collections. The video report comes as letsrecycle.com continues to develop its coverage of recycling news, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Jan 2016 Industry news Staffordshire to explore integrated waste service Councils within the Staffordshire Waste Partnership could take a step closer to integrating collection and disposal services this month in a bid to find future savings. The 10 authorities are due to sign a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ which would provide greater security over how waste is collected and treated in the county. The decision would … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Jan 2016 Industry news How to get to the route of zero waste in a consumerist society As one of her New Year’s Resolutions, Angela wants to stop bring stuff into the house, but it’s providing difficult. She wrote… “I’ve made several Zero Waste New Year’s Resolutions which I’ve had great success with, but one of them is proving difficult. I want to stop bring stuff into the house to start with,… Zero Waste Week · 29 Jan 2016 Industry news Resource model needs new boundaries, says Viridor Viridor has declared that current resource management systems in England are ‘no longer fit for purpose’ and is calling for a ‘new and ambitious model’ that moves beyond traditional local authority areas. And, as well as looking at boundaries in terms of operations in England, Viridor is also recommending a “shift in the country’s resources … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Jan 2016 Industry news Biffa director dismisses waste ‘cartels’ accusation Biffa Municipal managing director Roger Edwards has slammed a councillor’s “disrespectful” comments on waste businesses, during a heated debate over how collections should be serviced. Steve Munby, Liverpool’s cabinet member for Neighbourhoods, was speaking at letsrecycle.com’s Remunicipalisation Conference in London yesterday (28 January) when the war of words erupted. The councillor claimed t… letsrecycle.com News · 29 Jan 2016 Industry news Labour to face off with government on food waste bill Defra has confirmed it will not be supporting mandatory measures to force business to reduce food waste under the Food Waste (Reduction) Bill, which is due to have its second reading in Parliament tomorrow (29 January). The Department has stated that it supports the general aims of the Bill to reduce food waste and distribute … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 28 Jan 2016 Industry news Untha launches mobile waste shredder Machinery manufacturer Untha has launched an electrically-driven mobile waste shredder, which the company claims is the first of its kind in the world. The XR mobil-e has the same design features as Untha’s static XR shredder, yet it has been updated to include an on-board auxiliary power pack in order to make it easy to … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 28 Jan 2016 Industry news EU report calls for clarity on separate collections A report compiled on behalf of the European Commission has called for greater clarity on what constitutes separate collections of recyclables and clear treatment standards for ‘high quality’ recycling. The report put together in 2015 by German consultancy BiPRO and the Copenhagen Resource Institute analysed the separate collection schemes in operation in each of the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 28 Jan 2016 Industry news Mixed papers to get PRN boost The recycling rate for packaging materials and the generation of paper PRNs is set to be boosted by alterations to the mechanism used for issuing PRNs for mixed papers. Mixed papers, primarily sourced from the household waste stream by local authorities through waste and recycling contractors, have always contained an element of packaging ranging from … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 28 Jan 2016 Industry news Case Study: Estate Cleaners Leicester – Grundon cleans up at big events The post Case Study: Estate Cleaners Leicester – Grundon cleans up at big events appeared first on Grundon . Grundon Waste Management · 28 Jan 2016 Industry news RWUK to meet over price volatility How market risks and price volatility can be better-shared between contractors and councils are due to be discussed by Resources and Waste UK (RWUK) on Friday 28 January [see update below]. At a standard board meeting, RWUK board members will look how to take forward a report on managing the risk from secondary raw material … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 27 Jan 2016 Industry news Lee gives one year’s notice to CIWM Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) chief executive Steve Lee has given notice to the organisation that he is to leave at the end of 2016. Mr Lee, 57, is among the senior voices within the waste sector and has been at the helm of the Institution since September 2003 (see letsrecycle.com story). He joined … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 27 Jan 2016 Industry news Waste fire tests begin at Cory landfill site Fire tests have begun at Cory Environmental’s Barling landfill site, as part of ongoing work to establish how best to tackle waste management fires across a range of materials. The tests are being carried out by firefighters from the London Fire Brigade with the support of the Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA). CFOA will study … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 27 Jan 2016 Industry news AD sector calls for flexibility on plastic bags VIDEO REPORT: Anaerobic digestion (AD) plant operators have spoken out in favour of allowing residents to present food waste in plastic bags, a move which they say could increase the capture rate for organic material. This follows concerns raised over the potential effect that the carrier bag charge might have on how residents present their … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 27 Jan 2016 Industry news BIS to approve WEEE compliance fee for 2015 The Department for Business (BIS) has confirmed that it will be setting a WEEE compliance fee for 2015, and will reveal next week the methodology that will be used to determine the level of the fee. The announcement from BIS comes ahead of the 31 January 2016 deadline for schemes to post their final waste … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 Jan 2016 Industry news Councils counting cost of MRF contamination The waste industry will address concerns that local authorities may have over contamination rates and potential increases in sorting costs at materials recycling facilities (MRFs). This was the message from the Environmental Services Association (ESA) in defence of MRF operators after criticism that costs for local authorities are increasing due to an industry crackdown on … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 Jan 2016 Industry news Top Defra waste official to leave in April The top Defra official with overall responsibility for recycling and resource management, Dr Colin Church, is to leave the department in early April. Dr Church is understood to be leaving the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as well as the civil service altogether, after a career where he has held a number of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 Jan 2016 Industry news Director to pay £33,000 for waste site permit breach The director of a waste firm which went into liquidation in 2013 has been ordered to pay £33,000 in fines and costs after having pleaded guilty to breaching an environmental permit for the operation of a site in Bedfordshire. Simon Lupson, director of Wood Recycling Services, was sentenced at Luton Crown Court on Friday (22 … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 26 Jan 2016 Industry news Chemicals in food contact materials: A gap in the internal market, a failure in public protection Food packaging, factory equipment, food utensils – almost everything we eat has been in contact with one or more of these items. The EU’s laws should ensure that chemicals used in these materials are safe, but they do not go far enough and contain holes. These holes – for example a lack of harmonised rules […] CHEM Trust · 26 Jan 2016 Industry news News in brief (26/01/2016) With news on: B&M bag levy donation; Luxus and Polypipe apprenticeship scheme; food waste reduction coalition; Poundland expands Helistrat’s £4 million waste contract, and; Grundon announces partnership with Oxford Food Bank. Poundland expands Helistrat recycling contract Retailer Poundland has extended waste management company Helistrat’s waste and recycling services contract to include an add… letsrecycle.com News · 26 Jan 2016 Industry news Veolia looks again to Hoddesdon for EfW plant Veolia has submitted initial proposals to Hertfordshire county council for the potential development of a new energy from waste facility to fulfil its £800 million waste contract with the authority, originally signed in 2011. The plant would replace plans put forward around five years ago for the development of a 380,000 tonnes per year capacity … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 25 Jan 2016 Industry news How safe is our seafood? Our oceans and seas have been polluted over time with a number of contaminants, from litter and plastic waste to an array of man-made chemicals which have caused numerous problems for many wildlife species. So considering these pollutants, how safe is the fish, shellfish and other seafood we eat? Globally over 1 billion people rely on […] CHEM Trust · 25 Jan 2016 Industry news Is large-scale gasification viable? It’s green, flexible, and readily available. So why is large-scale thermal gasification slow to take off? Tom Goulding reports. On an industrial site in North East England, work has been underway on a single project with two of the largest waste gasification plants ever conceived for the UK. With a combined throughput capacity of 700,000 … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 25 Jan 2016 Industry news Contamination sees Derbyshire Dales scrap bring sites Derbyshire Dales council has agreed to terminate its contract for the running of bring sites for dry recyclables with contractor HW Martin, after it was claimed that high contamination levels were making the service unviable for the company. HW Martin will pay the council compensation of £20,000 to end the contract which it has held … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 25 Jan 2016 Industry news Appointments round-up (25/01/2016) With news on: Paul Brown appointed Scottish managing director; Gwendoline Riou joins European packaging organisation EUROPEN, and; VEKA announces commercial director appointment Viridor appoints Scottish managing director Waste firm Viridor has appointed a new regional managing director to oversee its operations in Scotland. Paul Brown, who will serve as Viridor’s Scottish Regional managing dir… letsrecycle.com News · 25 Jan 2016 Industry news POWERDAY AD COLLABORATION NEARS COMPLETION The new Willen Biogas anaerobic digestion plant in North London has entered the commissioning phase and is expected to be fully operational shortly. The 25,000 tonne per year facility is sited on Ca... Powerday · 25 Jan 2016 Industry news EAC chair steps down prompting fresh election Labour’s Huw Irranca-Davies leaves Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee after just seven months at the helm letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jan 2016 Industry news Aluminium beverage can recycling at new record high More than 7 out of 10 aluminium beverage cans remain in the European Circular Economy Brussels, 21 January 2016: The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland increased by 1.8% to a new record level of 71.3% in 2013. European Aluminium considers this result an important milestone […] Alupro · 22 Jan 2016 Industry news The Week in Waste – 22 January 2016 Take a look at the ‘Week in Waste’ video report. In this week’s report by letsrecycle.com, sponsored by Biffa, we report on the increase in flytipping of white goods highlighted by one local authority, reflect on the challenges in the plastics market and catch up on some other news from the waste management sector. The … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jan 2016 Industry news Anglesey considers three-weekly collections Council officers in Anglesey have recommended introducing three-weekly refuse collections from October to help the authority meet the Welsh Government’s 70% recycling target. The proposal, which would cost just over £500,000 to implement, will be considered at a meeting of the Isle of Anglesey county council’s executive next week (25 January). The capital would be … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jan 2016 Industry news TEEP assessments lead to little change in waste collections The advent of TEEP regulations has not heralded a shift towards separate collections by councils, with the majority of England’s recyclable material collected commingled, data gathered by the Environment Agency suggests. This was among the findings of a survey carried out by the Agency to assess whether local authorities are meeting their requirements under the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jan 2016 Industry news GMWDA in warning over £2.5m budget overspend Councillors in Greater Manchester have been warned that spending on the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA) contract is likely to exceed budget for 2015/16 by as much as £2.5 million. In October, the Authority first noted that it may be on course to exceed its proposed c£170 million spend for the year. This warning … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 22 Jan 2016 Industry news Yorwaste wins £1.5m recycling contract Council-owned waste firm Yorwaste is to transfer and process up to 30,000 tonnes of recyclables on behalf of four local authorities in North Yorkshire. The three-year contract, worth an estimated £1.5 million, will see Yorwaste handle paper, cardboard, glass, cans and plastic bottles collected from households in the districts of Harrogate, Craven, Humbleton and Richmondshire. … Read More The po… letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jan 2016 Industry news Recovered paper sector stays stable The recovered – or waste – paper sector has started the New Year with steady demand from China for used cardboard which is helping to add stability to the sector. And, in contrast to metals and plastics, overall, the recovered paper sector was relatively stable in 2015 apart from a short-term fall in the value … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jan 2016 Industry news FCC to almost double Eastcroft EfW capacity FCC Environment is to almost double the capacity of its 170,000 tonnes-per-year Eastcroft energy from waste plant in Nottingham. Under plans agreed unanimously by Nottingham city council yesterday (20 January), an additional 140,000 tonnes of throughput will be developed via the installation of a third boiler line at the site. The line had previously been … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jan 2016 Industry news Kier and Unite reach settlement over BANES contract dispute A pay dispute between Kier and its waste collection crews in Bath and North East Somerset has ended following successful talks with the trade union Unite this week. Kier presented a revised pay offer to union members on Tuesday (19 January), which was accepted. The agreement brings an end to industrial action which had lasted … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 21 Jan 2016