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With the take on of the Booker contract, we were lucky enough to “inherit” the drivers who were covering the collections, Adrian Taylor, Paul Manchester, Jason Leek, Roger Tricky, Craig Tomlinson, Gary Szumlanski, Mohammad Shaheed, Mark Sarjant and Paul Wooding have all now transferred to WasteCare and we welcome them to the team. At Head Office,…
There were no surprises in store for the industry in Chancellor George Osborne’s spring Budget this year – except for a £4.2 million package to tackle waste crime. The Budget reveals that Mr Osborne also raised the cap on contributions by landfill operators to the Landfill Communities Fund from 5.1% to 5.7% – meaning more…
A leaked document from Brussels has coincided with yesterday’s General Election campaign launch. The major political parties are wrestling with the potential impact of yet more new packaging regulations expected from Europe. Following the introduction of the taxing of carrier bags later this year, Brussels is now considering extending the regulations to fruit and vegetables, particular…
The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) has outlined its plans to increase the target for collections of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in 2015. Proposals were distributed to WEEE compliance schemes in March which indicate that government officials favour a target based on the average growth or decline in tonnage of WEEE…
When WasteCare received an enquiry from Moorfield School (www.moorfieldschool.co.uk), Ilkley via Bradford Council, we rose to the challenge! A class of schoolchildren were soon to embark on a project where laptops were dissected and reassembled.This modern day equivalent of analysing frogs meant that the school were in need of redundant laptops to practice on….
New Hall School, founded in 1642, has always been guided by its Catholic ethos. Nowadays, this includes a concern for the environment and we are working to improve our use of resources, in particular through recycling. While there are much larger recycling programmes on site, perhaps the most important initiative is the one that involves…
The standard rate of landfill tax will rise from £80 to £82.60 per tonne today in a continued bid by the government to incentivise other methods of disposal. Similarly, the lower rate of landfill tax increases from £2.50 per tonne to £2.60 per tonne. Last week the HMRC sent a briefing document to landfill site…
A government advisory committee is to look at how the PRN system can help councils meet the 2020 recycling target as part of its new agenda. Headed by Phil Conran, new members of the Advisory Committee on Packaging (ACP) met for their inaugural meeting late last month to discuss what benefits packaging recovery notes could…
The Green Investment Bank has set up a £50 million investment fund targeting smaller-scale recycling and waste projects across the UK. The new fund – Recycling and Waste LP (“RAW”) – will be managed by Foresight Group LLP which will raise at least a further £50m from private sector co-investors to match GIB’s investment. The…
Councils in England had their best quarter ever for recycling from April to June last year, thanks to a warm spring. Figures published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) showed local authorities achieved a quarterly recycling rate of 48.5% for the first quarter of 2014/15. This was higher than England’s previous…
