April 2018
3 Ways to Recycle Plastics – A Taxing Question or “Extended Producer Responsibility”?
We need better ways to Recycle Plastics, because currently improving the dire situation on the sustainability of plastics, just isn’t working, so is it best to see the solution as a taxing question, deposit return schemes, or a need for new extended Producer Responsibility requirements to make the plastics producers pay the true cost of […]
Increasing Recycling Collection in Flats (Apartment Buildings)
Increasing Recycling Collection in Flats (Apartment Buildings) is the next big recycling challenge for cities. “Recycling Is Easy… Unless You Live In A Flat”, Agnieszka Chruszcz wrote recently in the CIWM Journal about Flats Recycling (Apartment Recycling). As a senior consultant at Resource Futures, engaged work on improving recycling collection in flats, Agnieszka says: “Recycling in […]
Sustainable Waste Management Services Win Back Money and Time
Sustainable Waste Management Services have become a holy-grail of crucial importance for businesses across all sectors in the industrial and commercial waste producing sectors. The process of waste disposal for businesses is somewhat different to residential (household) waste management. This is mainly due to the large volume of waste businesses produce, compared to the relatively […]
The 4 Types of Nuclear Waste – UK Radioactive Waste Examples
Radioactive Waste Examples and UK Decommissioning Learn about the 4 Types of Radioactive Waste (Radioactive Waste Examples) : Our info-graphic image explains what the 4 types of nuclear waste are (High Level Nuclear Waste, Intermediate Level Nuclear Waste, Low Level Nuclear Waste, Very Low Level Nuclear Waste) The 4 types of nuclear waste (copyright free […]
At Last Recycling in the UK Truly Makes Sense at the Bywaters Recycling and Recovery Facility, Bow, London
Recycling is taking off in the UK! Find out how the UK industry has reached a profitability tipping point, and how one commercial recycling company is providing a leading recycling facility and waste management service for forward thinking industrial and commercial waste clients throughout London.
List of Municipal MRFs Operating in England – Materials Recovery Facilities Known Also as Recycling Centres
We have devoted this page to providing a list of materials recovery facilities in England. Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs) are also often called Recycling Centres, Waste Processing Sites, Household Waste Facilities, Waste Pre-Treatment Centres, Materials Facilities etc. Their purpose is to separate as much waste as possible, for recycling from the general mixed waste stream. […]
List of Separation Methods Used to Divert Waste from Landfill and Recycle
A list of DRY waste separation methods for municipal solid waste materials are provided, with a short description of each. These separation techniques will become increasingly familiar as the solid waste management techniques used to divert waste from landfill and recycle continue to be developed, to process and recycle more and more of the world’s […]
More Effort Needed to ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’ says UK Environment Agency
The UK Environment Agency continually calls on the nation to reduce, reuse and recycle as much of our waste as possible. It’s for our own good! Read-on to find out all you could want to know about it! Back in 2007, Barbara Young, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, said: “We need to improve our […]
Landfill Directive Compliance – EC Legal Action Against Member States Over Landfill Directive
Landfill Directive compliance has been an issue across the EU for almost 15 years. We first posted about this in December 2006, when ISWA posted an article, reproduced below. EC legal action against non-compliant member states, over the Landfill Directives, isn’t just a pedantic wish from compliant states. It brings many real health, and cross-boarder […]
What is Vermicomposting and Why is it Becoming Increasingly Popular?
After receiving a number of queries recently when we were asked; “What is Vermicomposting” we wrote this article in reply. And; “Why is it Becoming Increasingly Popular?” Is also answered here. The humble earthworm has for millennia lived in our soils largely unseen, improving the quality of these materials to support the whole network of […]
What Is Allerton Waste Recovery Park?
Allerton Waste Recovery Park, is a waste management facility for North Yorkshire and the City of York which was commissioned in early 2018. The Allerton Waste Recovery Park accepts municipal and commercial waste and includes a materials recovery facility, a 24MWe EfW plant (incinerator) handling 320,000 tonnes per year of waste and a 1.1MWe biogas plant. […]
