Recycling news: 2011

Industry news Minister pledges zero tolerance for textiles crime Nick Hurd welcomes enforcement action and calls for more to be done to ensure public trust in used clothing collections is not lost letsrecycle.com News · 14 Sept 2011 Industry news Date labelling guidance will cut food waste Defra publishes best practice document for food industry advocating end of sell by and display until dates letsrecycle.com News · 14 Sept 2011 Industry news Municipal Waste Composition 2006-2007 INCPEN (Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment) · 14 Sept 2011 Industry news Textile Recycling Association endorses positive actions to protect reputation of £200 million p.a. charity fundraising clothing collections The Textile Recycling Association wishes to publicly endorse all the positive initiatives presented at today’s Charity Clothes Collection Symposium in London, which has been organised by the Institute of Fundraising and the Fundraising Standard’s Board. We have recognised for some time that the problems caused by Bogus Charities and disagreements amongst different charity fundraisers have [...]… Textile Recycling Association · 14 Sept 2011 Industry news Municipal Waste Composition 2006/2007 This report presents estimated compositional analysis of England’s municipal waste and recycling streams. It uses data collated and analysed from the most recent national compositional estimates, reported in Defra WR0119: Municipal Waste Composition: A Review of Municipal Waste Component Analyses, Resource Futures 20101, hereafter referred to as the WR0119 study. [...] INCPEN (Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment) · 14 Sept 2011 Industry news Edinburgh gets 1.3m boost for food waste roll-out Government financial support will help council to proceed with phased roll out of service for households following successful trial letsrecycle.com News · 13 Sept 2011 Industry news SARIA takes majority stake in food waste recycler PDM Doncaster-based PDM claims increased involvement from German company will allow it to fast-track plans for AD network letsrecycle.com News · 13 Sept 2011 Industry news WRG plans first AD plant in the UK Company proposes Neath Port Talbot facility to treat 52,000tpa of source-separated food waste, mostly delivered by councils nearby letsrecycle.com News · 13 Sept 2011 Industry news UKs first nappy recycling plant opens Knowaste says facility will be first of five to open in UK over next four years under 25m investment plans letsrecycle.com News · 12 Sept 2011 Industry news Repeat crash in material prices a very real risk WRAP chief executive Liz Goodwin uses speech at RWM exhibition to discuss impact of current economic climate on recycling sector letsrecycle.com News · 12 Sept 2011 Industry news RWM exhibition to keep its name next year Annual exhibition for the waste and recycling sector to continue being called RWM in partnership with CIWM in 2012 but with new strapline letsrecycle.com News · 12 Sept 2011 Industry news Older EfW plants receive boost under CRC Waste industry welcomes decision by DECC and Environment Agency not to discriminate against some energy-from-waste and landfill gas operations letsrecycle.com News · 12 Sept 2011 Industry news The Future is Total Waste Management One of the UK waste industry’s fastest growing companies, Cleansing Service Group (CSG) is continuing to play a pioneering role in the development of new technologies and processes aimed at keeping waste out of landfill by recovering and recycling as much as possible of the waste it collects. This expertise will be illustrated on Stand […] CSG (Cleansing Service Group) · 12 Sept 2011 Industry news Police launch major strike against textiles theft Four men arrested in London and Essex following raid linked to theft of hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of used clothing letsrecycle.com News · 11 Sept 2011 Industry news ACM clinch 2011 waste sector football tournament Victory for North London firm in 24 team tournament at University of Northampton letsrecycle.com News · 11 Sept 2011 Industry news Metals theft crackdown leads to 16 arrests Searches of scrap metal dealerships ongoing with more than 300 officers from Avon and Somerset Police involved in day of action letsrecycle.com News · 11 Sept 2011 Industry news LARAC announces finalists for 2011 awards Recycling officers from Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Ayrshire and Torbay among those shortlistedby Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee letsrecycle.com News · 11 Sept 2011 Industry news Olympian opens New Earths Avonmouth MBT plant Local authority hails lower costs of technology compared to traditional EfWfacility at opening ceremony letsrecycle.com News · 11 Sept 2011 Industry news Non-reprocessors able to issue PRNs for first time Environment Agencies issue guidance explaining how wider range of companies handling metal scrap can apply to issue PRNs from 2012 letsrecycle.com News · 8 Sept 2011 Industry news News in Brief With news on Serco in Sandwell, a survey on the Waste Review, a 4m expansion for WSR, trade waste in Edinburgh and batteries in Rushcliffe letsrecycle.com News · 8 Sept 2011 Industry news Plymouth eyes recycling boost with glass collections Council plans to run pilot scheme first before introducing scheme city-wide in move also needed to satisfy PFI contractor and Defra letsrecycle.com News · 8 Sept 2011 Industry news Where councils can find savings James Fulford, of Eunomia, outlines ways in which councils can make savings with cutting the quality of their waste services letsrecycle.com News · 8 Sept 2011 Industry news PDM opens 12 million Doncaster AD facility Labour leader Ed Miliband attends ceremony marking opening of food waste recycling firms first AD plant in UK letsrecycle.com News · 8 Sept 2011 Industry news SITA gets go-ahead for waste plastic-to-diesel facility Planning permission secured for UKs first plant of its kind, to be built in Avonmouth alongside MRF and gasification facility letsrecycle.com News · 7 Sept 2011 Industry news Viridor frontrunner for 459m South Lanarkshire deal Waste company named as preferred bidder for 25-year residual waste treatment contract ahead of WRG letsrecycle.com News · 7 Sept 2011 Industry news Capacity squeeze to push battery recycling costs up Closure of mainland European plants and uncertainty over recycling standards both impacting on sector, warn UK sorters letsrecycle.com News · 7 Sept 2011 Industry news First nappy composting sites planned for UK Services company OCS aims to open several IVC plants for waste stream next year by co-locating with existing waste facilities letsrecycle.com News · 6 Sept 2011 Industry news Four bidders shortlisted for Milton Keynes contract Council names companies in running for deal to treat 80,000 tonnes of residual waste a year letsrecycle.com News · 6 Sept 2011 Industry news Major Kent EfW plans secure final approval Waste could be sourced from across South East to feed 550,000tpa capacity plant to be run on behalf of DS Smith letsrecycle.com News · 6 Sept 2011 Industry news Judicial Review over commingling to go ahead Permission granted to Campaign for Real Recycling for Judicial Review of Defras interpretation of separate collection in revised Waste Framework Directive letsrecycle.com News · 6 Sept 2011 Industry news Securing investment in waste infrastructure Barry Sheerman MP discusses the APSRGs new report on addressing the barriers to financing new waste plants letsrecycle.com News · 6 Sept 2011 Industry news About Us - WasteCare WasteCare · 6 Sept 2011 Industry news Action needed now to secure waste plant investment Cross-departmental committee and use of Green Investment Bank needed if UK is to meet EU targets, says APSRG report letsrecycle.com News · 5 Sept 2011 Industry news Uttlesford eyes major savings with waste overhaul Essex district could cut costs by over 500,000-a-year with changes such as single-pass vehicles and new kerbside glass collections letsrecycle.com News · 5 Sept 2011 Industry news GreedeBag and EN13432 Jenny Lewis of Greede Co explains why they have chosen the EN13432 standard rather than the oxo-degradable route letsrecycle.com News · 5 Sept 2011 Industry news OSS launches Gen3 recycled fuel oil With an in-house testing facility, OSS has used the oil quality protocol requirements to help develop a new recycled oil letsrecycle.com News · 4 Sept 2011 Industry news Waste management sector valued at 7.5 billion Report giving up-to-date analysis of size and value of waste sector published by Department for Business, Innovation and Skills letsrecycle.com News · 4 Sept 2011 Industry news Perkins to join Smurfit Kappa Recycling Aylesford Newsprint's recycling chief is to join Smurfit Kappa Recycling as its commercial director later this year letsrecycle.com News · 4 Sept 2011 Industry news SAICA acquires Stirling Fibre ahead of mill opening Spanish paper giant makes its third acquisition in 12 months to guarantee feedstock for Partington mill letsrecycle.com News · 4 Sept 2011 Industry news The Nation's Favourite Coffee Shop | Costa Coffee - 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