August 28th, 2008 by waster
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Insitu recycling of a damaged road surface near Peterborough provided a perfect solution for the local environmentally friendly council.
This is part of a report published in the Highways magazine June 2008. I won’t publish it all here for copyright [...]
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August 26th, 2008 by
The challenges facing the UK waste industry, both within their main business functions, and internally within their own organisations have never been greater, and one of the most pressing is always to practice what they preach. The pressure on companies (and indeed local authorities) to continue to escalate the efficiency in which they reduce, recover [...]
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August 21st, 2008 by waster
Stop picking on householders
By John Oates of The Register
Published Wednesday 20th August 2008 11:42 GMT
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has said the government should do more to encourage businesses to recycle and reduce waste and take the focus away from householders.
Recent attempts to reduce domestic waste by weighing dustbins and banning carrier [...]
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August 12th, 2008 by waster
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 business community [...]
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August 2nd, 2008 by waster
Councils write off “worthless” landfill allowances
28-07-2008
A new LATS market place is to be launched later this year, but both levels of trading and prices remain low, forcing many waste disposal authorities to write off their ever-growing amounts of surplus allowances.
The government-funded Regional Improvement & Efficiency Partnerships, led by Improvement Efficiency South East, is to set [...]
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