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Founded in 1967, the Recycling and Waste Management Exhibition now attracts over 9,000 visitors to a hall of 500+ specialist exhibitors. The show provides a complete range of solutions from plant machinery to waste management services and training and as a result attracts attendees from a wide spectrum of business sectors. This year there is…
A huge industrial fire involving a reported 100,000 tonnes of paper and plastics material for recycling is believed to have been started by a Chinese lantern. Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at the Jayplas depot in Dartmouth Road, Smethwick, around 11pm on Sunday June 30. The site is one of six owned by Jayplas,…
When it comes to using waste management services, it has become increasingly important over the last couple of years to ensure you have full traceability of where your waste is going and where it will end up. This situation has been compounded in recent years by a number of high profile media stories whereby waste…
Forty-five signatories from across the grocery supply chain have committed to reducing food and drink waste under the third phase of the Courtauld Commitment. The voluntary agreement sets out targets for 2013-15 for retailers, brands and manufacturers to reduce food and drink waste and improve packaging design, building on the targets set out in Courtauld 2, which finished in December 2012….
The first international standard for waste management is being piloted by the Carbon Trust and could be ready for full launch in the autumn. The Carbon Trust Waste Standard will allow a company to be independently recognised as one that deals with waste in a responsible way, with “clear reputational benefits”, according to the Carbon…
The construction of buildings involves many processes which produce a number of harmful waste streams. Due to this fact, construction waste has always been the most notorious of sectors with regards to excess waste and poor recycling rates. COSHH stands for Control of Substances Hazardous to Health and requires that any personnel handling these waste…
In the opinion of some observers, the last 20 years has seen consumer driven consumption reach unsustainable levels. The difficult financial conditions over the last 5 years looks to have changed habits, with growth of reuse in electrical goods illustrating this new trend. A number of well-known charities have been at the forefront of this…
WasteCare have been part of the team that has just completed Europe’s largest digital switchover campaign. Starting in early 2011 WasteCare were tasked with providing a collection and recycling service for over 1,400 aerial transmitter installations across the whole of the British Isles. Located up mountains, on remote islands from the Scilly Isles to the…
Formula One development continues to push the boundaries of technology on many fronts, introducing many advanced solutions for everyday problems. One such innovation is the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) which recovers kinetic energy from a formula one cars breaking system and then uses the latent energy to boost acceleration when needed. Under increasing European…
WasteCare Group’s recent WEEE2 conferences in Leeds and London were a great success, giving all attendees the unique chance to directly lobby Government. Feedback from the event reflects this feeling with many attendees stating that it was “well organised, with informative speakers”. Speakers and delegates represented stakeholders from producers, retailers, local government, compliance schemes and…
