Comment: Big changes in the pipeline for Northern Ireland’s waste industry
The way that waste in Northern Ireland will be handled over the next few years will change dramatically following consultations by Defra and the...
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...
Veolia wins South London waste partnership contract
Resource management firm Veolia, through its subsidiary Veolia ES UK, has signed a major new recycling and waste services contract spanning four South London...
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,...
NIR test programme reveals factors influencing sorting flexible packaging materials
A major international collaboration to provide independent, scientific data linked to design, sortability and mechanical recyclability of flexible packaging has published its first report...
Secondary fuels firm wins contract with Hull City Council
Secondary fuels specialist Geminor has secured a contract with Hull City Council to implement an integrated waste processing solution to divert more than 80%...
Inside the UK’s first carton recycling facility
Fay Dashper, Senior Recycling Manager for the Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK, describes the processes used at a new UK...
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...
Suez wins large waste contracts in Australia
Recycling and recovery firm Suez has been awarded a couple of large waste contracts in Austrialia - both the waste collection contract for Brisbane...
SEPA household waste statistics 2019 highlight positive trends on recycling, carbon emissions and reduced...
Carbon impact of waste down 1.1 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent from 2011
Less than 1 million tonnes of household waste sent to...
Long-awaited reforms clarify waste collection in England
A pledge to “end the postcode lottery” around what you can and can’t put in recycling bins seemed forthcoming from the government’s long-awaited reforms...
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...
New ‘Green’ waste site applications down 20% in a year as local authority spending...
The number of planning applications to build new environmentally-friendly waste management sites has dropped by 20% in a year, to 189 in 2015/16 from...
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:...
Are we bottling out of binning when it comes to drinking on the go?
Latest beach litter figures strengthen case for bottle deposit return schemes around UK
Over 8,000 plastic bottles were found on UK beaches during...
Spotting opportunities in a turbulent period
"With policy changes amass and technological advances in abundance, there is now even more reason to visit RWM in 2016," say the organisers, i2i...
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...
Commercial cleaning trade show to highlight sustainability issues
As the commercial cleaning sector seemingly advances in its use of green equipment, The Cleaning Show (Excel, London 19-21 March 2019), one of Europe’s...
Company ordered to pay more than £1.2m for waste offences
A London waste company has been ordered to pay more than £1.2m after pleading guilty to historical waste offences at Harrow Crown Court.
Powerday Plc,...
WEEE compliance management app picks up US award
Prize winners in the fourth annual awards run by US publication Environmental Leader were announced on 22 June in Denver, Colorado and included 3M’s...
