Waste operators that caused fires receive sentences
Waste operators who repeatedly ignored Environment Agency advice that their sites posed a persistent fire risk - before fires broke out that burned for...
What is litter?
Your eyebrows might raise involuntarily at the seeming banality of the question, yet most people can offer only a vague definition. In a bid...
Carbon impact of Scotland’s waste reaches record low but ‘more needs to be done’
The carbon emissions associated with Scotland’s waste in 2018 dropped 11% on the previous year to reach the lowest level since official recording...
707 celebrates 5-year anniversary with record growth and expansion plan
Yorkshire-based national waste and recycling company, 707, is marking its fifth anniversary this summer with a head office expansion.
Founded in July 2009, 707 was...
IT firm to provide software solutions to help deliver waste services in Cambridgeshire
Technology company Yotta has won a major contract with 3C ICT, a shared IT service between Cambridge City Council, Huntingdonshire District Council and South...
Paperless solution cuts submission times for quarterly returns for waste carriers, says firm
A new waste handling solution is seemingly set to cut submission times for quarterly returns for waste carriers who have a registered, onsite, waste...
SEPA statistics reveal recycling increase in Scotland in 2015
Official statistics were issued on 20 September by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) which show that Local Authorities in Scotland have recycled 44.3%...
ESA calls for planning system to be aligned with the circular economy
The Environmental Services Association, the voice of the UK’s resource and
waste management industry, has set out a number of recommendations to more closely align...
Scottish council becomes first to trial recycling weighing technology
A waste weighing programme being launched next month in North Lanarkshire will be the first in Scotland to use using Radio Frequency Identification...
Monitoring nuclear waste legacy ponds
Following rigorous assessment, water quality monitoring sondes from Xylem Analytics are being deployed in what is arguably one of the most hostile environments imaginable:...
Major milestone reached for international grass-roots waste management platform
A major milestone was seemingly reached in late July with the registration of the 100th waste management project to the Circular Action Hub (CAH),...
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...
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...
AI supports unique solution to optimize waste collection in France
Since July 2020, the 200 skips that collect Toulouse inhabitants’ waste from the 13 waste disposal centers managed by Suez have been equipped with...
Clinical waste: Investment needed to secure better value for the NHS
Recent national media coverage highlighting issues surrounding the disposal of NHS clinical waste has painted a very unpleasant picture of a system in chaos....
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...
Brexit offers a chance to rethink waste policy, says thinktank
In a new report, Going Round in Circles, UK think tank Policy Exchange says that Brexit presents a huge opportunity for the UK Government...
South African start-up provides app that brings together independent truck owners and customers needing...
WRAPP (Waste Recycling App) is bringing together independent truck owners and the customers who need waste removed – all via an easy-to-use mobile app, says the firm behind it
WRAP-led group continues with efforts to standardise recycling systems in England
On 12 February WRAP announced the start of the second phase of its cross industry project to examine ways to bring greater consistency to...
New fines introduced as fly-tipping reaches one million cases a year
Incidents of fly-tipping have increased noticeably in England, according to the latest government figures, which cover the 2013/14 period. A House of Commons briefing...
