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Britain is still topping Europe in use of landfills. Britain still sends more household waste to landfill than any other European country, council heads warned today. Following new figures issued by Defra last week showing that English councils are now averaging a 30% recycling rate for household waste, the Local Government Association published research today [...]
UK Landfill Gate Charges Will Soon Become More Expensive than Waste Treatment in Waste Facilities The campaign which started in 2000 to enable the UK to comply with the EU landfill waste reduction targets, reaches a tipping point soon. Until now we have seen a continuing onslaught of regulations to improve landfill practices and also [...]
In fact 72% of councils “need to take action” to reduce their waste tonnages being sent to landfill in order to meet the EU’s targets. These are the waste disposal authorities in England that need to do more to meet their targets for reducing the amount of biodegradable waste going to landfill, the Environment Agency has said. But, [...]
The present position is that Councils have a “large safety net” against not achieving EU landfill targets. The extent of the “collapse” of the LATS market has been emerging more clearly over the last week. Two of the UK’s largest waste disposal authorities have revealed that they hold a “substantial surplus” of landfill allowances available. Such [...]
Audit Scotland have released a Sustainable Waste Management report which says recycling rates have gone up, with around a quarter of municipal waste now being recycled. However for Scotland to meet EU Landfill Directive and Scottish Government targets, councils will need to increase their recycling rates and achieve rapid reductions in the volumes of waste [...]
Disappointment over “worthless” landfill allowances: Councils that invested early in diverting waste from landfill have spoken of their disappointment that landfill allowance values remain “virtually worthless” in the third year of the LATS scheme. “If the UK government doesn’t seem to be enforcing fines, there doesn’t seem to be any reason to buy LATS, so [...]
Wales has been very green this summer with so much rain, but it is green in another sense; Every local authority in Wales has met limits on the amount of biodegradable waste it can send to landfill sites. The Environment Agency Wales has produced a report in its role as monitoring authority for the Landfill [...]
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Waste firm Shanks has invested in a new recycling service for smaller volumes of commercial and industrial waste, ahead of new pre-treatment regulations coming into effect in October. The Small Volume Recycling Service will allow Shanks customers to put mixed recyclables, paper, plastic, card, tins cans and plastic bottles into specially labelled containers to be [...]
The Environment Agency have published three factsheets to help landfill operators, small business and others in the waste industry understand the changes in the landfill regulations which come into force later this year. To view the Fact sheet; For landfill operators please go here; For general business please go here; From 30 October 2007 you [...]
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