Waste Carriers Invited to Participate in Consultation Seminars

DEFRA STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP SEMINARS ON THE WASTE CARRIERS/STOP, SEARCH AND SEIZURE CONSULTATION Defra launched a second consultation on 13 June 08 on Controls on the Handling Transfer and Transport of Waste. The consultation closes on 8 September 2008. A small number of seminars are being held in August and September aimed at local authorities, the [...]

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Compost Like Output Restoration Material Must go to Landfill – EA Decides

The following shows that it can be hard driving a new waste treatment technology forward as an organisation participating in one of Defra’s Demonstrator Projects, and things possibly don’t always go quite as expected. Nevertheless, this is exactly why public money is being well spent when put into these projects. Defra Demonstrator Projects are full scale [...]

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£1.2m in Assets Seized from Illegal Landfill Operator

Exeter Crown Court has ordered the seizure of nearly £1.2 million in assets from the operator of an illegal landfill site in Devon. “The scale of illegal tipping at this site is the worst I have encountered”; said Adrian Evans, Environment Agency. As sentencing was carried out today, John Craxford and his company John Craxford [...]

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Danger of Ireland Missing EU Target for Biodegradable Waste Diversion from Landfill

Ireland is now in significant danger of missing its 2010 target for diverting biodegradable municipal waste from landfill, according to the National Waste Report 2006 – published by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency. Overall, the report shows that, although the quantity of waste that was recycled increased between 2005 and 2006, so, too, did the [...]

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book Now for 2008 US Waste News: Capitol Hill Summit

Now more than ever, legislative and regulatory environmental issues are of vital importance and top-of-mind with today’s business leaders.The Capitol Hill Summit, a new conference to be held February 12-13, 2008 in Washington, D.C., will bring together environmental and waste executives from corporations both large and small, as well as companies that provide environmental services [...]

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