Landfill Compactors - Essential Landfill Plant Features and Costs

Landfill compactors can be seen on all landfills, but what features make them so popular, are there any problems with reliability and what about the use of other plant. It’s all here! Visit now!

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SITA UK Reveals Plans for Bristol EfW Facility

SITA UK has unveiled plans to build an Energy-from-Waste facility on the outskirts of Bristol with the capacity to treat up to 400,000 tonnes of commercial and industrial residual waste a year.

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New Earth Solutions secures West of England MBT contract

WASTE DIVERSION FROM LANDFILL - A five-year interim residual waste management contract has been won by New Earth Solutions for the West of England Partnership. Of the 120,000 tonnes fed in to the plant, more than 50% will be reduced through losses in mass.

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At Last Recycling in the UK Truly Makes Sense at the Bywaters’, Recycling and Recovery Facility, Bow, London

Recycling is taking off in the UK! Find out how the UK industry has reached a profitability tipping point, and how one commercial recycling company is providing a leading recycling facility and waste management service for forward thinking industrial and commercial waste clients throughout London.

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Zero Waste Target Announced for Scottish Coca-cola Plant

Coca-Cola’s Scottish factory announced plans to completely stop sending waste to landfill by the end of 2011 - another significant step towards making Scotland a zero waste society. The plant in East Kilbride, whose products include Coca-Cola, Fanta, Dr Pepper and Sprite, will improve its recycling facilities and work with an external waste contractor to reach the target. The announcement comes as new SEPA figures reveal that Scotland has exceeded its European landfill target 18 months early, with 1.29 million tonnes of waste being sent to landfill; the end of 2010 target of 1.32 million tonnes has already been met..

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Recession Busting UK Government Projects Critical to Contractors and Consultants Fail to Move Forward to Start On Site Despite Treasury Cash

Government promises, vital to the depressed construction industry and made some months ago are not being kept. Many Local Government Waste Management contracts are also late. Just when will the government wake up to the need to get the construction industry working again?

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Organic Waste Diversion Away from Landfill Conference - In the Rockies

Conference sessions will cover composting, woody biomass, food waste composting, anaerobic digestion of animal waste, food waste recycling in resorts and parks, and much more.

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Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority Signs £640 Million PFI Deal with Veolia

The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority (MWDA) announced on May 19 that it has signed its £640 million waste and recycling contract with Veolia Environmental Services.

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US EPA Fines for Companies Polluting Bay Area Waterways

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!EPA fines companies for sending pollutants from San Jose sites into Bay Area waterways
Associated Press
Posted: 05/20/2009 04:33:03 PM PDT
Updated: 05/20/2009 05:03:38 PM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is fining two waste management companies for polluting San [...]

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Institution of Civil Engineers UK Responds to the Budget by Asking for More Infrastructure Funding Arrangements


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