New standard helps construction sector reduce waste during building projects
BSI, the business standards company, has published BS 8895-2 Designing for material efficiency in building projects – Part 2: Code of practice for Concept...
Ecologist wins Promising Professional award
SLR Consulting Project Ecologist Emily Drinkwater has been presented with the 2015 Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management’s (CIEEM) Promising Professional Award.
Emily accepted...
Circular economy round table
Billed as "Europe's largest event for resource efficiency and waste management", RWM hits the NEC once again on 15-17 September, this time co-located with...
Closing the net on a coastal problem via innovative remanufacturing
Ramon Arratia, Sustainability Director at carpet tile manufacturer Interface, shares his own company’s experience of reusing waste products, via an innovative third-world project.
To create...
Inefficient stripping out is “wasted opportunity”, says firm
A “golden opportunity” to maximise economic value from waste diverted from landfill, save money and reduce the environment impact is being spurned due to...
Turnkey conveyor for HDPE plant
SAID to be the world’s first food-grade High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) bottle recycling plant, Biffa's facility at the Wilton International Petrochemical Complex in Redcar,...
ENER-G publishes farmers’ guide to the financial benefits of waste energy
Biogas generation specialist ENER-G has published a free guide to help British farmers gain financial benefits from turning farm waste into energy via anaerobic...
Reduce, re-use, recycle and regulate – the key to tackling our global food waste...
Philip Simpson of ReFood discusses the latest WRAP report on the cost of food waste and argues that a comprehensive strategy of reduction, recycling...
Chemistry in action
When the UK government agreed to assist with the disposal of certain Syrian chemicals in late 2013, it called upon Veolia, a UK expert...
WEEE: Reviewing a year of change
Speaking at a recent APSRG event held at the House of Commons, looking at the effects of the recast WEEE Directive, Dr Philip Morton...
Fire safety for recycling plants
DIVERSIFIED technology manufacturer Honeywell says its FAAST Aspiration Smoke Detector (ASD) is being implemented by a growing number of recycling and waste management plants....
Silt processing boost for road waste
SITA UK has recently upgraded the CDEnviro recycling plant at its Wolverhampton facility by introducing a centrifuge to increase the volume of silt that...
Recovering solvents
Envirotec reviews aspects of solvent recovery, and recycling chemical waste streams
SOLVENTS are used in a wide variety of industrial processes, including areas like printing,...
Baler ties up the loose ends of waste-to-SRF strategy
UK waste management firm Premier Waste says it now diverts 98.6% of all material from landfill following an overhaul of its baling equipment.
The Birmingham-based...
Bristol furniture reuse project goes into second phase
Bristol City Council is nearing the end of the first phase of a project to reuse all its unwanted furniture within the local community.
As part...
Plasma facility to extract gold from WEEE
In early March a consortium of UK firms launched what seems a potentially ground-breaking project to help unlock the value found in discarded electronic...
Guernsey goes beyond the bale
GUERNSEY'S largest independent waste recycling business, Island Waste, is the first to process and ship RDF off island, following the installation of a new...
Local opinion to be bypassed in future nuclear waste dumping
LEGISLATION pushed through at the last minute - before parliament went into prorogation for the general election - will mean nuclear waste can be...
Lifting the pressure on aerosol disposal
WASTE processing organisation Remondis UK has launched "an innovative new solution to the challenge of managing aerosol waste disposal". The flat-packed, UN-approved containers can...
Tackling flytipping black spots – FlyMapper system launched in Glasgow
Local authorities are using a sophisticated new system to find and tackle flytipping black spots in communities across Scotland. The approach was announced on...
