Data analytics firm wins £500k funding to build the UK’s first digital waste tracking...
Topolytics has been awarded £500,000 to build a prototype for a UK wide comprehensive waste tracking system
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,...
UK businesses must do more to adapt to changes in waste industry legislation
Integrated IT systems and whole business reporting are essential for reducing waste and emissions and ensuring compliance with UK Environment Act, says waste management...
Catch up time for British Isles
Austria, Germany and Belgium are recycling the largest proportion of municipal waste in Europe in 2010. But the UK and Ireland are chasing hard.
THOSE...
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...
Bringing jetting and suction to the city
THE CityWhale is a new range of vehicles offering both jetting and suction capabilities in a package adapted for urban operation.
Designed and manufactured...
SEPA opens healthcare waste consultation
All those who collect, transport, store treat and dispose of healthcare waste are being encouraged to respond to a consultation on its storage and...
New Veolia facility will handle hazardous waste in the South West
Waste and resources firm Veolia is launching a new specialist facility based in Avonmouth, near Bristol, to meet the growing demand for the safe...
Plastic pollution is growing relentlessly as waste management and recycling fall short, says OECD
The world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago, with the bulk of it ending up in landfill, incinerated or...
Electric sweeper barrows introduced in Wood Green
Haringey Council and Veolia are introducing three new electric sweeper barrows as well as an electric caged tipper vehicle to the streets of Wood...
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...
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...
New advanced plastics recycling facility in Kent
RECYCLING company Viridor welcomed The Mayor of Medway Councillor Barry Kemp to its new Plastics Recycling Facility (PRF) in Rochester on 7 November. The...
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...
84% rise in material rejected by council recycling facilities, says BBC report
A BBC Freedom of Information request has turned up data showing a sudden and dramatic rise – of 84% - in the amount of...
Getting in a Pickle over waste and recycling
A combative Q&A session followed Eric Pickles presentation to the RWM show at the Birmingham NEC on 17 September.
The Secretary of State for...
Official waste statistics published for Scotland
Scottish recycling rate for 2017 is 58.9% (a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from 2016*)
Scottish organic waste recycled by composting or anaerobic...
Waste transfer site gets 1000th user
SIX weeks after the launch of edoc – a new online system for recording waste transfers - over 1000 businesses across the UK have...
Northern model key to addressing stagnating UK recycling rates, says Viridor
Viridor has called on the UK to follow the northern powerhouse model for regional resource networks to boost stagnating national recycling rates.
Speaking at the...
SEPA announces crackdown on illegal dumpers advertising on social media
SEPA enforcement team targets criminals and chancers using social media to sell illegal waste services
Regulator reminds waste companies that compliance with the...
