Recycling news: 2019

Industry news Suez calls for ‘hybrid’ EPR system Suez has said that none of the four options set out in the government’s consultations on reforming the packaging producer responsibility system is “suitable in its entirety”. In a report released last week (18 April), the company said it instead favours a ‘hybrid’ model comprising the best elements from each option to “meet the desired … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 23 Apr 2019 Industry news Love Food Hate Waste - RE3 Recycling FCC Environment UK · 22 Apr 2019 Industry news cleanupuk | Home - CleanupUK CleanupUK · 22 Apr 2019 Industry news Our facility - FCC Environment FCC Environment UK · 21 Apr 2019 Industry news Home Page - Millerhill - FCC Environment FCC Environment UK · 21 Apr 2019 Industry news Be a model producer – finding a way for fashion waste The Environmental Audit Committee has put forward recommendations for the Government to introduce a Producer Responsibility system for new clothing. With this in mind, clothing retailers and brand owners should look to implement clothing return schemes sooner rather than later. Emily Hare, Waste and Resource Traceability Manager, provides some guidance and advice in her latest Blog. Valpak · 18 Apr 2019 Industry news Essex advised to reject second Rivenhall EfW plan EXCLUSIVE: Councillors on Essex county council’s development committee are being advised to reject planning permission for a second version of the Rivenhall waste management facility. And, Essex county council has today denied being in any breach of rules about publishing of local authority views during an election period. Chimney The planning refusal recommendation from chief … Read More The p… letsrecycle.com News · 18 Apr 2019 Industry news Kemsley paper mill set for carbon reduction measures Plans for a gas-powered combined heat and power (CHP) facility at the Kemsley paper mill in Kent have moved a step forward with the National Infrastructure Planning organisation this month sending its recommendation decision on the project to the Secretary of State. The CHP project, known as K4, is separate from the larger energy from … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 18 Apr 2019 Industry news Have You Missed the Deadline for Direct Registration With the EA? The post Have You Missed the Deadline for Direct Registration With the EA? appeared first on Clarity . Clarity Environmental · 18 Apr 2019 Industry news Putting Britain in the spotlight for mattress recycling on Earth Day TFR Group is helping the UK to lead the way on a global level by diverting bulky waste away from our already fit-to-burst landfill sites. Although plastic has lead the global eco-agenda for the past few years,... The Furniture Recycling Group · 18 Apr 2019 Industry news Three shortlisted for West of England residual contracts EXCLUSIVE: The West of England Partnership has shortlisted three companies for parts of a £21.2 million per annum residual waste treatment contract. Viridor, Suez and ETM Recycling Limited are all set to secure parts of the 10-year contract, which will commence on 1 April 2020, with an optional 10-year extension. Under the proposed contract, Viridor … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 18 Apr 2019 Industry news Sandwell council continues contamination work Sandwell council has emphasised its continued focus on education and communication with residents to drive up recycling rates and target contamination. Speaking to letsrecycle.com, Andrea Morris, customer engagement manager at the council, and Sofia Antoniou, regional campaigns manager at the council’s waste partner Serco, explained some of the challenges to increasing recycling for an urban … … letsrecycle.com News · 18 Apr 2019 Industry news Aberdeenshire to roll-out HWRC changes Aberdeenshire council has stated that changes to its Household Waste and Recycling Centres (HWRCs) – which were announced in its waste strategy – will be introduced this month. The changes see three sites with the lowest recycling rate – Gardenstown, Hatton and Whitehills – all close, with each of the remaining sites now open for … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 18 Apr 2019 Industry news Notts crews tackle Newark scrapyard fire Fire crews from across Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire are currently dealing with a large industrial fire on Great North Road in Newark, reportedly involving 1,000 tonnes of scrap metal. Fire services were called to the Briggs Metals Limited site shortly before 11.51am this morning (17 April). According to Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, a number … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Apr 2019 Industry news Cheshire ‘plastics-to-gas’ plant agreement signed PowerHouse Energy – the company behind a ‘waste plastics to gas’ technology – has signed a deal which will see its technology used at the Protos Energy Hub in Cheshire. PowerHouse announced the deal with Energy from Waste specialist Waste2Tricity today (17 April), which will see Powerhouse “provide planning and engineering design services” to the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Apr 2019 Industry news Fire-hit Westhampnett HWRC to partially reopen A fire-hit West Sussex HWRC site is to partially reopen from tomorrow (18 April), but plans are being drawn up for the long-term rebuilding of the facility. The fire at the Viridor-run HWRC site at Westhampnett, which was believed to involve over 500 tonnes of household waste, was extinguished last Thursday (April 9), having burned … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Apr 2019 Industry news Global conservationists have “core aims” but fight over solution Research reveals rifts within the global conservation movement, on economic approaches to protected areas, which makes the achievement of conservation goals difficult. Open Access Government — Environment · 17 Apr 2019 Industry news Think tank questions economics of DRS The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has called for the government’s plans for a deposit return scheme in England to be abandoned unless “a more robust economic case” can be made. Following the launch of a report into the feasibility of the proposed DRS, the think-tank has warned that the system is a “very expensive … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Apr 2019 Industry news Appointments round-up (17/04/2019) With news on: Boughton adds service & parts manager; BIR appoints plastics committee chairman; MVV appoints joint managing director. Boughton adds service & parts manager Boughton Engineering has appointed John Jennings as its new service & parts manager. Mr Jennings brings a “wealth of knowledge and experience of the waste, specialist equipment and OE truck … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 17 Apr 2019 Industry news PRC - Packaging Gateway Packaging Gateway (GlobalData) · 16 Apr 2019 Industry news Alupro is recruiting! We are currently looking for a digital marketing and social media executive to join the team at the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro). Alupro is a well respected industry funded, not-for-profit organisation which has been representing the UK’s aluminium packaging industry for 30 years. The organisation developed and manages the deployment of the leading behaviour change […] Th… Alupro · 16 Apr 2019 Industry news The implementation of a green waste valorisation technology The HORIZON 2020 ToSynFuel project, coordinated by Fraunhofer UMSICHT, will demonstrate new integrated waste valorisation technologies into industrially relevant environments, says Dr-Ing Robert Daschner from Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg. Open Access Government — Environment · 16 Apr 2019 Industry news Lead acid battery recycler secures £1.5m funding packaging Lead acid battery recycler Aurelius Environmental has secured a £1.5 million debt funding package from the government’s Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) to upgrade equipment at its site near Tipton. The funding was secured through Maven Capital Partners and will be used by Aurelius to purchase machinery to ‘improve efficiencies’ at the facility. In partnership … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Apr 2019 Industry news Birmingham to move ahead with waste service review Birmingham city council is to press ahead with a review of its waste service, after the council’s Scrutiny Committee voted against calling the decision in last week (12 April). The review had been questioned by the Labour Councillor Majid Mahmood, who had previously been responsible for the city’s waste service, and insisted that money should … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Apr 2019 Industry news Rural council funding ‘concern’ over Resources Strategy Officers from a Yorkshire local authority have questioned how funding for recycling services will be divided between rural and urban authorities through the government’s Resources and Waste Strategy. Concerns over the way that funding will be divided up have been expressed by North Yorkshire council officers in a report published ahead of a meeting of … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Apr 2019 Industry news FCC picks up East Lothian residual waste contract FCC Environment has been awarded a contract worth up to £33 million for the treatment of residual waste on behalf of East Lothian council. The contract, which runs for a total of ten years, will see FCC handle between 25,000 to 35,000 tonnes per year of municipal waste from households, businesses and recycling facilities in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 16 Apr 2019 Industry news New telematics tool from Selwood - KHL Group Demolition & Recycling International (KHL) · 16 Apr 2019 Industry news Charity calls for action on slavery in the waste sector Businesses in the waste industry must do more to tackle ‘modern day slavery’ and human trafficking, an official from an anti-slavery charity has claimed. Nigel Oseman, lead trainer at the charity Hope for Justice, was speaking at an event in Wolverhampton last week (11 April), organised by the outsourcing waste company Reconomy, to raise awareness … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Apr 2019 Industry news Vehicle and equipment round-up (15/04/2019) With news on: Paper Round to install live cameras on fleet; Tomra launches plastic sorting machine; Witham Mills ‘in final stages’ of tipping solution; Pellenc ST to invest in test centre. Paper Round to install live cameras on fleet London-based waste management company Paper Round is installing four-way ‘Live’ camera recording systems to its vehicle … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Apr 2019 Industry news Pembrokeshire to check HWRC residual waste Pembrokeshire county council in south Wales has announced that residents bringing waste to its six Household Waste and Recycling Centres (HWRCs) will be asked to demonstrate that they are not disposing of recyclable items. The new measure will come into effect next month and will see residents asked to ensure bagged waste presented for disposal … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Apr 2019 Industry news The Value of Challenge OPINION: Robin Davies, Business Development Director at Serco Environmental Services, takes a look at the role of competition in relation to local authority waste and recycling contracts. The continuing impacts of austerity, the aftermath of the Carillion insolvency and the politicisation of public services has led a number of authorities to review their existing arrangements … Read More The po… letsrecycle.com News · 15 Apr 2019 Industry news ‘A better model for Extended Producer Responsibility’ OPINION: Robbie Staniforth, head of policy at compliance specialist Ecosurety looks at the options for extended producer responsibility as set out in the government’s consultations on the Resources and Waste Strategy. With 90 questions in Defra’s consultation into reforming the system of extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging, it is easy to get dragged into … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 15 Apr 2019 Industry news Net zero – rethinking carbon as both a challenge and an opportunity Jon Khoo, Regional Sustainability Manager (UKIME & Nordics) at Interface, explores how Interface is rethinking its relationship with carbon. Aldersgate Group · 14 Apr 2019 Industry news ReNew ELP win the FlexPack Recovery Challenge at SPC Impact 2019 ReNew ELP, the first company to commercially develop the HydroPRS™ technology recently entered the FlexPack Recovery Challenge at SPC Impact 2019. Not only did they... Mura Technology news · 12 Apr 2019 Industry news Environmental citizenship research and the European Network on Environmental Citizenship Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis, Pedro Reis, Demetra Hadjichambi tell us about the research emphasis of the European Network on Environmental Citizenship. Open Access Government — Environment · 12 Apr 2019 Industry news News in brief (12/04/2019) With news on: Viridor launches Beddington virtual visitor centre; Cost of EU green laws; Hubbub seeks applicants for ‘Cup Fund’; ETM Recycling opens Bristol MRF Viridor launches Beddington virtual visitor centre Viridor has launched a ‘virtual visitor centre’ for its Energy from Waste (EfW) facility in Beddington, south London. The website, www.beddingtonerf.info, launches as the … Read More Th… letsrecycle.com News · 12 Apr 2019 Industry news The waste sector comes together for this year’s London Conference Der Beitrag The waste sector comes together for this year’s London Conference erschien zuerst auf United Kingdom (EN) . ERP UK (European Recycling Platform) · 12 Apr 2019 Industry news China launches fresh wave of anti-waste smuggling action China’s customs authority is extending its anti-waste smuggling campaign into 2019. This follows on from ten months of enforcement action over the last year, dubbed ‘Blue Sky 2018’ (see letsrecycle.com story) which saw a reported 481 cases of illegal waste activity uncovered by customs officials. Details of the 2019 Blue Sky campaign were outlined by … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Apr 2019 Industry news Banks asked to intervene over Sinfin EfW plant Derbyshire and Derby councils have called for financial backers of the Sinfin waste treatment centre to intervene to ‘secure the future’ of the delayed facility. The plant, which was due to open in 2017, is being built on the councils’ behalf by Resource Recovery Solutions (Derbyshire) Ltd (RRS) – a partnership between national construction firm, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Apr 2019 Industry news Former Interserve director to head-up Cory Dougie Sutherland, a former director of the outsourcing and construction firm Interserve, will replace Nicholas Pollard as the chief executive of Cory Riverside Energy. Cory has moved swiftly to announce the appointment, having announced the departure of Mr Pollard, who has been the company’s chief executive since 2015, late last week. Mr Sutherland, who had … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 12 Apr 2019