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...
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%...
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...
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...
Local communities urged to get ‘smart’ on tackling litter with launch of the Government’s...
Almost £500,000 will be awarded to community projects to tackle the blight of littering, Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey announced on 26 August.
The money will...
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...
Proprietary push floor technology selected for UK waste-to-energy gasification plant
Bouygues Energies & Services, the company responsible for the engineering and construction of the UK’s largest waste-to-energy gasification plant currently underway at Hoddesdon in...
Scotland ups cash to help councils achieve targets
AN extra £1.2m worth of funding has been earmarked to help councils in Scotland reach the 50% recycling target set for the end of...
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...
Litter clearance tools firm wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade
The Helping Hand Company's declared mission to rid the world of litter has been rewarded with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for international trade...
Report reveals the size of Scotland’s raw material consumption footprint
A new report reveals the true size of Scotland’s consumption footprint for the first time, says Zero Waste Scotland, the Scottish Government-funded advisory group...
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...
Co-mingled collections only work when supplying top-quality MRFs, says resource recovery firm
Co-mingled collections are the way forward for councils needing to reduce costs and increase capture of dry recyclables to improve their kerbside recycling rates,...
World Bank report profiles progress and challenges in the global waste sector
The World Bank’s latest report on the global waste sector offers what looks to be a detailed portrait of waste collection, disposal, and management...
Vehicle safety systems with HD recording to be on show at RWM
An increasing number of companies in the recycling and waste management sector are investing in mobile safety systems to protect the public and their...
Circularity gains business traction
Moving to a circular business model can boost the bottom line. There is now much discussion and debate as to the best way to...
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....
Feeling the pressure: Local authorities publish report into impact of Covid-19 on waste services
Only 40% of responding councils report that their Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) are operating normally according to the Association of Directors of Environment,...
15-month jail sentence for Stockport company owner who mismanaged waste sites
A waste criminal whose actions caused a closure of the M60 and significant pollution to a river in Stockport was on 31 March...
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.
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