Recycling news: 2007

Industry news 14m funding boost to Welsh recycling Welsh Assembly announces grants for food waste collection and country's first plastics sorting line letsrecycle.com News · 14 Oct 2007 Industry news The pace of change: Peter Mills, contracts director, New Earth Solutions Are inflexible longterm contracts for waste disposal facilities the way forward? letsrecycle.com News · 14 Oct 2007 Industry news Biodegradeable bags – are they the key to food waste collections? Emily Ross looks into the issues surrounding introducing biodegradeable bags as part of food waste collections. letsrecycle.com News · 14 Oct 2007 Industry news WRAP says quality is priority for next four years Organisation pledges to look at material sorting as it sets future agenda at open meeting letsrecycle.com News · 11 Oct 2007 Industry news London mayor rejects Recycling Board Ken Livingstone calls for more waste powers after withdrawing from planned recycling board letsrecycle.com News · 11 Oct 2007 Industry news UK electronics recycling progress “way beyond expectations” Producer responsibility system for electronics working well, although some concern on recycling costs letsrecycle.com News · 11 Oct 2007 Industry news Streamlined permit system to start in April 2008 Defra confirms environmental permits replace waste licences and pollution control permits next year letsrecycle.com News · 11 Oct 2007 Industry news Packaging recycling targets to rise from 2008 Defra issues snap consultation on higher recovery and recycling targets for packaging waste letsrecycle.com News · 10 Oct 2007 Industry news Tyre-fitter killed at Hampshire landfill site Police and safety officers launch investigation after man dies at Veolia landfill site letsrecycle.com News · 10 Oct 2007 Industry news Research is key to UK’s successful development of AD Location needs to be thoroughly investigated before building new anaerobic digestion facilities letsrecycle.com News · 10 Oct 2007 Industry news News in Brief Including news on PVC recycling, new council recycling schemes and glass recycling in the Highlands letsrecycle.com News · 10 Oct 2007 Industry news All systems go for Somerset waste partnership Councils hand over responsibility over waste and recycling to one body in hopes of "harmonising" the service letsrecycle.com News · 10 Oct 2007 Industry news Gloucestershire reconsiders risky waste technologies Council shortlists MBT two years after deeming it too unreliable - but claims "critical" differences letsrecycle.com News · 9 Oct 2007 Industry news Final demand for vehicle recycling figures Scrap yards threatened with enforcement action if recycling/recovery data not submitted this week letsrecycle.com News · 9 Oct 2007 Industry news Councils welcome PFI funding boost Plans to double PFI funding for new waste facilities has been commended - despite some uncertainty over its impact letsrecycle.com News · 9 Oct 2007 Industry news Chancellor heralds “step-change” in waste funding Increase in PFI funding for waste announced in Pre-Budget Report and Spending Review letsrecycle.com News · 9 Oct 2007 Industry news 750,000 wood recycling plant opens in Yorkshire Consultant Stuart Howarth launches facility near Pontefract to meet recycling shortage in the region letsrecycle.com News · 8 Oct 2007 Industry news Defra warning over recycling schemes and flytipping Warning about schemes to boost recycling, as new figures reveal rise in household waste dumping letsrecycle.com News · 8 Oct 2007 Industry news British Glass voices “deep concern” over MRF trend Glass container industry calls for debate over use of commingled collections that include glass letsrecycle.com News · 8 Oct 2007 Industry news Harrow food waste scheme suffers capacity problems Borough landfills some material collected for recycling, blames lack of available composting capacity letsrecycle.com News · 8 Oct 2007 Industry news Berryman sorting plant “hardly an endorsement of MRFs” Anti-MRF lobby says member's plan for sorting facility represents "indictment" of commingled schemes letsrecycle.com News · 7 Oct 2007 Industry news Essex 250,000 tonne MBT plant “undermines” recycling Friends of the Earth say not enough waste produced in the county to warrant third mechanical biological treatment plant in Essex letsrecycle.com News · 7 Oct 2007 Industry news WRAP’s founding chairman to step down Vic Cocker to retire after seven years at WRAP, but will stay on to oversee appointment of successor letsrecycle.com News · 7 Oct 2007 Industry news Broxbourne pilots bag-charging scheme for residual waste Hertfordshire district to charge residents using more than one sack a week for non-recyclable waste letsrecycle.com News · 7 Oct 2007 Industry news Recycling must not be main thrust of Scottish waste policy Scottish councils urge ministers to focus on waste prevention, rather than raising recycling targets letsrecycle.com News · 7 Oct 2007 Industry news Eastleigh and Falkirk among Valpak award winners Sir Ranuph Fiennes highlighted the importance of recycling when he spoke at the Valpak annual awards letsrecycle.com News · 4 Oct 2007 Industry news Joan Ruddock to address Awards event Recycling minister Joan Ruddock is to attend the Awards for Excellence ceremony in London letsrecycle.com News · 4 Oct 2007 Industry news Rise in vehicle recycling evidence DVLA reports increase in certificates of destruction - but many cars are still escaping the system letsrecycle.com News · 4 Oct 2007 Industry news WEEE compliance schemes urged to transfer members Wastecare rejects proposals by REPIC to hand over WEEE evidence and suggests schemes should hand members over instead letsrecycle.com News · 4 Oct 2007 Industry news Bio plastics should be separate waste stream BPF Recycling Council chairman says biodegradables could undermine plastic recycled products letsrecycle.com News · 3 Oct 2007 Industry news Tories call for smarter approach to waste Policies revealed to make businesses rather than householders responsible for excessive waste letsrecycle.com News · 3 Oct 2007 Industry news Logistics firm calls for review of hazardous WEEE rules Red tape means economics of collecting, transporting and recycling hazardous WEEE "don't add up" letsrecycle.com News · 3 Oct 2007 Industry news Prompt action pledged in Scotland after waste summit Ministers plan to tackle waste with urgency after listening to views of businesses and councils yesterday letsrecycle.com News · 3 Oct 2007 Industry news Quality control: Martin Green, head of recovered paper, UPM Shotton How recycling quality seems much more straightforward through the eyes of a child letsrecycle.com News · 3 Oct 2007 Industry news CRR member embraces commingled collections Berryman Glass reveals plans for new technology and says it can now take mixed cans, plastics and glass from councils letsrecycle.com News · 2 Oct 2007 Industry news Councils urged to prioritise furniture reuse Reuse body claims 10 million reusable items are sent to landfill each year letsrecycle.com News · 2 Oct 2007 Industry news Recovered paper sector hit by export price hike Stalemate reported at UK ports following a doubling of export prices to the Far East since Monday letsrecycle.com News · 2 Oct 2007 Industry news Court links rats to fortnightly waste collections Oxford councillors "amazed" at judge's sympathy towards resident who blamed rats on alternate weekly refuse collections letsrecycle.com News · 2 Oct 2007 Industry news Construction waste plans supported by industry Defra's consultation reveals support for site waste management plans but some concerns raised letsrecycle.com News · 1 Oct 2007 Industry news Veolia and Shropshire formally agree waste PFI deal Contract between waste company and council partnership includes energy-from-waste and in-vessel composting facilities letsrecycle.com News · 1 Oct 2007