Recycling news: 2014

Industry news ESA warns councils not to breach procurement law Local authorities looking to achieve value for money for their waste and recycling services should ‘unquestionably’ tender on the open market, the Environmental Services Association (ESA) has suggested. And, ESA – the waste sector trade body – warned that local authorities should take ‘careful steps’ not to breach procurement law if considering to enter ‘cooperative … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 7 Nov 2014 Industry news Check before you chuck and stop wasting food with this free printable You know all about my passion for reducing food waste by now. It seems such a no-brainer to me as it’s so simple to tackle. If you don’t waste food you save money as well as helping preserve all the valuable resources that are embedded in food such as water and fuel for transportation. And… Zero Waste Week · 7 Nov 2014 Industry news Agency dual-use WEEE ruling now in effect The Environment Agency has told WEEE reprocessors and producer compliance schemes to ensure that any dual-use WEEE is now counted as ‘consumer WEEE’ in line with the Department for Business’ revised ruling on classifications. letsrecycle.com News · 7 Nov 2014 Industry news CSG Win Hampshire Waste Equipment Maintenance Contract Cleansing Service Group (CSG) has been appointed by SSE Enterprise Contracting, a leading supplier of multi-discipline mechanical and electrical services, to deliver waste equipment maintenance services for schools and other sites owned by Hampshire County Council. SSE Enterprise Contracting currently delivers a range of mechanical and electrical services for the council and has appointed CSG [… CSG (Cleansing Service Group) · 7 Nov 2014 Industry news Edinburgh collection overhaul generates recycling boost A new recycling service for households in Edinburgh has seen the amount of waste sent to landfill drop 30% since it was introduced earlier this year, the city council has indicated. An overhaul of waste and recycling collections in the city began in September 2014, when almost 20,000 households switched to a new service aimed … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 6 Nov 2014 Industry news Emission levels to be discussed at air quality event More top policy and science experts from across government and industry have been confirmed to speak at the forthcoming National Air Quality Conference in London on November 26. Hosted by letsrecycle.com sister title airqualitynews.com, the conference will give delegates the opportunity to discuss the latest developments, exchange information and learn from best practice in the … Read More The … letsrecycle.com News · 5 Nov 2014 Industry news Reclaimed Appliances (UK) enters administration Waste electronics reprocessing firm Reclaimed Appliances (UK) Ltd has been placed in administration, with the firm’s director blaming ‘tough trading conditions’ for the company’s demise. Company director and founder Robert Truscott has also established a new company, Reclaimed Appliances (EU), through which he has told letsrecycle.com that he intends to continue trading. A petition was … Read M… letsrecycle.com News · 5 Nov 2014 Industry news News in brief With news on; Veolia invests in cycling safety; DS Smith publishes white paper; Firewalls installed at Essex MBT; Tradebe acquires two UK firms, and; Viridor opens first solar park on closed landfill Veolia invests £1m in cycling safety Waste management firm Veolia is investing £1 million on improving cycling safety by fitting audible and … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 5 Nov 2014 Industry news TRAID Photography Collective #2 Tyrone Williams Second episode for our TRAID Photography Collective project: a select group of photographers were asked to choose clothes from one... TRAID · 5 Nov 2014 Industry news West Norfolk extends Material Works’ waste contract King’s Lynn and West Norfolk borough council has granted a three-month extension to its contract with Material Works to develop a facility capable of recycling 35,000 tonnes of residual and food waste each year. The Chester-based firm first signed the conditional deal to treat the borough’s black-bag waste in December 2012, but progress has been … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 5 Nov 2014 Industry news Scotland 2012 data shows decline in waste arisings The amount of waste generated in Scotland fell by more than 2 million tonnes between 2011 and 2012, new figures released by the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) indicate. The waste statistics recorded by SEPA’s Waste Discover Data tool show the amount of waste generated, recycled, recovered and disposed across all areas in Scotland for … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 5 Nov 2014 Industry news CATTLEGATE FARM COMPOSTER OFFICIALLY OPENS Powerday is delighted to announce the official opening of the Cattlegate Farm composting facility which took place this week. This site located in North London on Cattlegate Farm, Potters Bar is lice... Powerday · 5 Nov 2014 Industry news Boomeco invests £3m in Avonmouth site Refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and wood recycling company Boomeco has invested £3 million in its Avonmouth site in Bristol in a bid to ensure that all waste is securely contained on the premises. In the past six months, the company has purchased specialised equipment including a state-of-the-art SID hook shredder, an automatic PAAL baling press with … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Nov 2014 Industry news Willen Biogas opens North London composting facility VIDEO REPORT: An open windrow composting facility that will treat some 25,000 tonnes of green waste each year from businesses in and around London has officially opened in Enfield. The Willen Biogas green waste facility, based at Cattlegate Farm on the border with Hertfordshire, was made possible by £7.5 million in funding from the Green … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Nov 2014 Industry news Parliamentary committees provide a useful route map Dr Gev Eduljee, external affairs director at SITA UK, takes a look at two Parliamentary committee reports and finds they offer potential guidance to both Defra and the next government. The Government’s response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s Inquiry Growing a Circular Economy: Ending the Throwaway Society contains the now-familiar mixture of mild ambition and … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Nov 2014 Industry news Viridor retains North Lanarkshire recycling contract Waste management firm Viridor has been awarded a two-year contract to process commingled dry recyclables on behalf of North Lanarkshire council. The renewal, which is worth almost £3 million with options for extension, will see Viridor separate and process 30,000 tonnes of plastics, paper, card and cans from 130,000 households per year. In addition, the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Nov 2014 Industry news Revised glass PRN targets laid before parliament The revised packaging waste targets for glass have been laid before parliament by resource minister Dan Rogerson and are due to officially come into force on November 24. The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 bring measures first outlined by the government in March 2014 (see letsrecycle.com story) to cut the targets for … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Nov 2014 Industry news Hinckley and Bosworth reacts to loss of recycling credits Hinckley and Bosworth borough council looks likely to consult on charging residents for garden waste collections from 2015/16 in response to an anticipated £350,000 cut in funding from Leicestershire county council. Hinckley and Bosworth council operates the free in-house fortnightly collections of garden waste from households in the borough in brown wheeled bins, before sending … Read More The… letsrecycle.com News · 4 Nov 2014 Industry news Allerton Park EfW gains £183m backing North Yorkshire and York councils have secured a combined investment of more than £183 million towards the proposed Allerton Park energy-from-waste (EfW) project from the European Investment Bank and the UK Green Investment Bank, it was announced today (November 9). The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide £150 million for the planned waste facility near … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Nov 2014 Industry news IPCC report underlines importance of recycling A report hailed as ‘the most comprehensive assessment of climate change ever undertaken’ has underlined the importance of reducing food waste and improving material efficiency in industry in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) study, produced by hundreds of scientists and published yesterday (November 2), claims that human influence on … Read … letsrecycle.com News · 3 Nov 2014 Industry news Government cool on recycling VAT incentive The government has again rejected calls to introduce tax breaks for recycled products but has hinted it may consider an ‘offset’ from the PRN regime for packaging producers using recycled materials in their goods. The willingness to look at the PRN regime and offsetting was signalled in the government’s response to an Environmental Audit Committee’s … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Nov 2014 Industry news Realising your PR potential Ahead of letsrecycle.com’s upcoming ‘Realising your PR potential’ webinar, Austen Lees – managing director of Sirius Comms – discusses changing attitudes to PR in the waste and resource management sector, the opportunity it presents and some key considerations when developing a PR capability. Whilst the recycling and resource management industry has perhaps been slightly slower … Read More The … letsrecycle.com News · 3 Nov 2014 Industry news Deadline extension likely for West Norfolk plant Time is running out for King’s Lynn & West Norfolk council’s contractor Material Works to deliver on a deal signed two years’ ago to construct a facility to treat the borough’s residual waste. But, the deadline for the black bin waste project may be extended tomorrow by the council, with Material Works revealing it is … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Nov 2014 Industry news Peel signals partnership with BWV on Cheshire EfW Peel Environmental has signed a ‘memorandum of understanding’ with plant specialist Babcock & Wilcox Volund (BWV) to develop its Ince Resource Recovery Park in Cheshire. The £500 million eco-park, which is to be developed as a joint venture between Peel and Covanta Energy, will be located on the south bank of the Manchester Ship Canal … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 31 Oct 2014 Industry news Hitachi Zosen Inova to bring Swiss AD technology to UK Japanese energy-from-waste technology supplier Hitachi Zosen Inova has announced the acquisition of anaerobic digestion plant specialist Axpo Kompogas – a deal that will see the AD supplier enter the UK market for the first time. Swiss-based Axpo Kompogas has designed and built more than 70 AD facilities in Germany, France and Switzerland, as well as … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 31 Oct 2014 Industry news GIB invests £200m in waste projects in first two years More than £200 million has been invested by the Green Investment Bank in waste projects since the Bank opened for business two years ago. The initiative, which was set up with around £3 billion of government funding in 2012, identified waste as one of its priority sectors – with a specific team set up within … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 31 Oct 2014 Industry news Veolia ‘confident’ of victory in Herts planning dispute Waste management firm Veolia is ‘confident’ of defeating Eric Pickles in the High Court over his decision to deny planning consent for the New Barnfield energy from waste plant in Hertfordshire. The firm is due to have its case against the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) heard in the High Court on December … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 30 Oct 2014 Industry news Healthcare waste firm acquires GW Butler Lanarkshire-based Healthcare Environmental Group has acquired medical waste company GW Butler (GWB). The acquisition sees the addition of three waste processing facilities to the expanding Group, located in Bradford, Nottingham, and Rainham in Essex – all of which are installed with Tempico Rotoclave technology for the treatment of healthcare waste. GWB has been providing clinical … Read More T… letsrecycle.com News · 30 Oct 2014 Industry news Plant and vehicle round-up With news on; W&S Recycling baler; Grundon installs bin-weighing device; Tamar buys shredder and trommel; Yotta Mayrise software targets flytipping, and; L&S Waste invests £2m in new fleet W&S Recycling takes delivery of new baler Dorset-based waste firm W&S Recycling has bought a twim-ram baler from Middleton Engineering as part of a new venture … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 30 Oct 2014 Industry news Stroud latest council to consider joining Ubico Waste and recycling services in Stroud – currently operated by Veolia – could move under the control of local authority-owned firm Ubico Ltd from 2016 under proposals to be considered at a council meeting next week (November 6). And, as well as recommending that Stroud becomes a shareholder in not-for-profit Ubico, the district council’s environment … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 30 Oct 2014 Industry news Hillingdon recycling boost ‘made possible’ by DCLG fund A recent boost in the amount of waste recycled in the West London borough of Hillingdon has only been made possible by finance received under the DCLG weekly waste collection scheme, the council has suggested. Between April and June 2014, recycling in Hillingdon rose to 50.7% – up from 45.5% in the same financial period … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Oct 2014 Industry news Fall in waste sector injuries in 2013/14 The number of reported injuries to waste and recycling workers fell to 486 in 2013/14 compared to 528 the previous year, according to the latest injury and ill health statistics published today (October 29) by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The injury rate (injuries per 100,000 employees) for the sector is still “much higher” … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Oct 2014 Industry news Veolia applies for EfW extension over feedstock fears Veolia has applied to source more commercial and industrial waste for its East Sussex energy-from-waste facility, amid concerns that it will be unable to sustain the current level of power exported to the National Grid. The waste management firm submitted an application to lift the existing planning condition on the 242,000 tonnes-per-year capacity Newhaven plant … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Oct 2014 Industry news Lochhead announces ‘brokerage service’ for recycled materials Scotland’s Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead has revealed that councils north of the border will be given access to a ‘brokerage service’ which will provide a marketplace for the sale of recyclable materials. Mr Lochhead revealed details of the brokerage service during his address at the Scottish Resources Conference in Glasgow this morning (October 29). He … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 29 Oct 2014 Industry news Bowing out It was to resounding applause that Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik left his final European Environment Council meeting today (October 28). But his final Environment Council appearance – on his proposed package for higher waste and recycling targets – could not have filled him with much confidence for the future. Mr Potocnik’s revised target – for … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 28 Oct 2014 Industry news Potocnik appeals to ministers over EU recycling targets Defra waste and recycling minister Dan Rogerson was among a number of European ministers to express concerns over the Commission’s proposed higher waste and recycling targets at a meeting of the European Environment Council in Brussels today (October 28). Mr Rogerson said during a debate on the policy package that he was “not yet convinced” … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 28 Oct 2014 Industry news Falkirk collection switch ‘could yield 60% recycling’ The first local authority in the UK to collect residual waste from households every three weeks has hailed the positive impact of the scheme, dubbed the ‘sustainable waste collection service’, claiming that the measure could see its recycling rate top 60%. Falkirk council became the first authority to move its green bin residual waste collections … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 28 Oct 2014 Industry news TEG suspends shares after failure to exit contract Organics recycling firm TEG Group has today (October 28) requested for its shares to be suspended after it failed to negotiate the release of £2.8 million in retentions held under the Greater Manchester waste contract. In a statement, TEG said that it recently engaged in discussions with construction firm Costain in relation to its overall … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 28 Oct 2014 Industry news Galashiels gasification plant no longer on track for 2015 The start date for operations at New Earth Solution’s 60,000 tonnes-per-year capacity gasification plant in Galashiels has been pushed back, Scottish Borders council has indicated. The EfW plant, which will also include a mechanical biological treatment facility (MBT) to pre-treat domestic and commercial residual waste, is part of an £80 million, 24-year contract that the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 27 Oct 2014 Industry news ‘Continuous’ strike action planned at Sheffield HWRCs [testimonial id = “65” align=”right”] Strike action is due to take place at five household waste and recycling centres in Sheffield from Wednesday (October 29), in a dispute over pay for workers. The GMB trade union has called the strikes over a failure to secure an agreement on premium pay for weekend and overtime working, … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 27 Oct 2014