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It’s coming soon – it is a major event and it is on 14th and 15th November, in Telford, UK, and the keynote address will be given by Ben Bradshaw MP, Environment Minister, Defra. Tailor-made to provide solutions to the UK’s biggest waste problems, the LARAC Conference 2007 offers practical and strategic guidance to transform [...]
Bumpy River: Officials in Prince George’s County, Md., recently deployed a floating trash trap in the Anacostia River to remove litter and debris from the waterway. Based on technology developed in Australia, the Bandalong system collects refuse in nets. It costs $35,000 to $40,000, and if it works as it’s expected to, Prince George’s officials [...]
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 [...]
A company specialising in defence and civil contracts has been short-listed to provide a PFI waste treatment facility for a Yorkshire council. Southampton-based VT Group will go head-to-head with the other remaining bidder – waste management company Waste Recycling Group (WRG) – for the Wakefield Metropolitan District Council contract. Council waste chiefs cut the contenders [...]
EU Skills, together with industry body, the Environmental Services Association (ESA), produced the CD after Sector Skills Agreement research by EU Skills identified health and safety as a priority area for employers. During the development of this training package EU Skills and ESA consulted widely with organisations such as the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) [...]
There has been nothing as contentious for a long while in the Waste Management scene as alternate weekly collection schemes (AWCS). So it is interesting to note the new guidance: Waster WRAP have re-issued their guidance on alternate weekly collection schemes. Included within the revised guidance is a suggestion that to meet Landfill Directive requirements [...]
“LetsRecycle News” tells us that: The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority has denied it is experiencing problems finalising its £3 billion waste disposal contract with Viridor and Laing despite the deal being due to start this month. The GMWDA’s director of procurement Tim Judson told letsrecycle.com this week that the preferred bidder negotiations with the consortium [...]
CHECK MATE? WASTE STRATEGY SEMINAR Monday 25 June 2007 at Hamilton House, London. For further details see http://www.ciwm.co.uk/strategy or e-mail the events department on events@ciwm.co.uk Tel. 01604 620426 ARE WEEE SORTED? Monday 9 July 2007 at The Crown Plaza Hotel, Birmingham. For further details see http://www.ciwm.co.uk/weee or e-mail the events department on events@ciwm.co.uk. Tel. 01604 [...]
We have added just one post about the New Waste Strategy which has just been published: To find out more about the Waste Strategy 2007 we recommend a visit to the Letsrecycle web site here. STRATEGY: Specific material type landfill bans on agenda The first three chapters of Waste Strategy 2007 contain a number of key [...]
Just days before the release of a new English waste strategy, the Environment Agency has issued a statement that “recycling does not really contribute much to tackling climate change”. The statement came from its chief executive, Barbara Young, who also challenged people who say that recycling is their main contribution to tackling climate change to [...]
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