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WEEE producer compliance schemes have banded together to create a ‘producer compliance scheme balancing system’ to handle requests from council for the clearance of WEEE from civic amenity sites. The move comes as a number of schemes had been issued with ‘Regulation 34’ requests which ultimately force a WEEE compliance scheme to pick up the…
A raid by the Environment Agency at a storage site in Essex uncovered WEEE and used gas bottles potentially bound for illegal export. The raid in early October saw Agency officers open storage containers at the site near Upminster. The Agency described the site as a large storage facility where shipping containers are rented out to individuals…
Over the last 20 years WasteCare has published the WasteGuide – a simple guide to UK waste management regulations. Aimed at waste producers and those managing waste, such as FM companies and the waste management sector, the guide is designed to provide the latest advice on current regulation and how to improve recycling and reduce costs….
Simply, there is currently insufficient recycling capacity in the UK to cope with the recent rise in waste fridge volumes. Over the last couple of years the EA has forced closure on a number of sites using outdated recovery technologies. This has been further exacerbated with the temporary closure of two large processors in the…
Meeting old friends and making new contacts is what trade shows are all about. This year’s RWM for us was no exception. Everyone remembers our “Silver Lady” Routemaster bus and throughout the show we had an endless stream of visitors. Focusing on FM companies, brokers and waste management providers we were delighted to show off…
A long-running wrangle over VAT and the fact that councils don’t have to charge for their commercial waste services has moved a step further with a court ruling in favour of local authorities. In September, a High Court Judge upheld an HMRC ruling that councils carrying out trade waste collections should not be liable to…
The unfortunate demise of the CK Polymer business in Lincolnshire business a few weeks ago has enabled us to accelerate our plans at Avonmouth. We bought two recycling lines for the granulation and cleaning of high density polyethylene and polypropylene plastics. With a capacity of over 5 tonnes an hour we will be able to…
Retail chain Marks & Spencer is considering reducing plastic packaging used in its product lines to just one type of polymer, in a bid to aid consistency in recycling, the company has revealed. Kevin Vyse, senior packaging technologist and innovation lead at Marks & Spencer, told a plastics recycling conference last week that the retailer…
The number of waste businesses prosecuted by the Environment Agency rose in 2015, despite an overall decline in prosecutions brought against companies for environmental offences. And, between April 2015 and March 2016, EA officers shut down almost 1,000 illegal waste sites – more than in the previous two years combined. Figures published by the Environment…
The UK is on track to meet targets for the collection of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in 2016, data published in September has suggested. The Environment Agency-published figures show that a total of 291,055 tonnes of WEEE was collected from household sources from January to June 2016. Much of this came through the…
