No frontiers
Increasing amounts of waste are moving across EU borders for recovery or disposal.
SHIPMENTS are not just travelling between EU countries but outside those borders...
Ashfield Solutions launches new waste advisory service
A LEADING advisor in land, waste and water has launched a new service to ensure its clients understand their liabilities surrounding on-site waste.
Landowners...
Lafarge Waste signs up to Spillard Optronics 360
The Waste Business of Lafarge, a world leader in building materials, is to equip its mobile waste plant in the UK with Optronics 360...
Detecting gas hazards in the water and wastewater industries
by Alison Smith, Marketing Director, Crowcon
The water and wastewater industries produce many toxic and flammable gases that need to be detected and eliminated. The...
Recession makes waste a great business to be in
Despite the gloom of the recession, it's refreshing to see glimmers of business success. Worcester based, nationally-operating company, Waste Efficiency Ltd, is determined that,...
Augean recruit
Edward Pigg has joined Augean PLC as a director to lead the development of its Waste Network division.
He moves from Biffa Waste Services where...
Fit for purpose
PART II A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 sets the minimum standard for contamination when land is redeveloped. As a minimum, sites must...
Data shows less going to landfill
LATEST estimates of local authority collected waste generation and management for England and the regions reveal that the tonnage being sent to landfill by...
Cash calculator can cut costs on construction sites
WASTE processing expert and equipment supplier Worsley Plant has been showing customers affected by recent HMRC guidance how to save cash.
Its new savings calculator...
Swiss are on a roll
NEW technology from Switzerland designed to remove the need for landfill was unveiled at the RWM show.
The new method for recovering a greater proportion...
New look revealed after show success
THE organisers of the Sustainabilitylive! exhibition and conference have declared this year’s event “a resounding success”.
Energy, water, land and sustainable business exhibitions were all...
Road sweepings from the Midlands to be recycled
ROAD sweepings from the Midlands are to be recycled rather than sent to landfill following installation of a recycling plant at a SITA UK...
Landfill fine after ‘offensive’ smells
A landfill site operator has been fined £10,500 for failing to stop offensive odours being detected off site on 17 separate occasions and prompting...
MBT plant progresses on the web
Construction progress on a waste treatment plant can be tracked on a new website.
The Northacre Resource Recovery Centre is the home of Wiltshire’s first...
Viridor’s last of seven
VIRIDOR has completed a £25m investment in West Sussex recycling.
The revamped East Grinstead site is the final project in a seven-year programme for a...
Straight up for recycling
STRAIGHT plc, the environmental products and services group, has won a new contract from May Gurney for a recycling and waste service for Cheshire...
Waste deal is on the right road
TARMAC, the UK’s biggest road surfacing and maintenance company, has struck a deal with Biffa to manage its waste and recycling services across the...
Raise a glass
AN engineering company claims it is revolutionising the commercial recycling of glass following a five-year contract win.
Tharsus has partnered with Scottish recycling business Ekko...
Crime doesn’t pay for owner who rented waste sites
A landowner was ordered to hand over £207,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act for rent payments he received from illegally operated waste sites.
Kevin...
Companies in Scotland worry over compliance
SMALL firms are backing the Scottish government’s drive for a ‘zero waste’ society. But they’re worried about the cost of compliance.
The Forum of Private...
