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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England is Too Slow at Waste Diversion from Landfill: UK Government Auditor

The National Audit Office has reported that the English local authorities are too slow awarding PFI contracts for England to achieve the ordered 50% organic waste diversion away from landfill by 2013. This article explains this and why the situation may be getting worse due to the credit crunch.

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List of Top Waste Contractors (UK)

The New Civil engineer Magazine, which is the weekly news magazine of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineers, provides through eMapInform an annual contractor listing and ranking report across all civil engineering construction disciplines.
This years edition provides the following list of the top twenty waste contractors, which in this context means a ranking of the [...]

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