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The waste and recycling industry has had to face up to the fact that it is suffering a spate of fire – often from arson and also by strange causes such as the Chinese lantern which fell on a plastics site in the Midlands. Now, some detailed draft guidance on how to prevent fires at…
Householders in the UK generated an estimated two million tonnes of ‘avoidable’ food waste in 2012 – with expiry date labels on packaging to blame for a large part of this. T he food label figures came in a report by the Waste & Resources Action Programme which estimated that 4.2 million tonnes of food…
Waste and resource issues again appear to be high on the government’s agenda with plans announced to create a ‘waste champion’ role within the Department for Business, following the recommendations of a House of Lords select committee on the bioeconomy. It is hoped that the plan will join up the government’s work on waste and…
Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) are one of the main places for collection of waste electronics. Research shows that 23% of the WEEE separately collected at HWRCs could be re-used with a small amount of repair. This volume of product represents a large re-sale value for the re-use sector and highlights the benefits of increased…
The importance of taking appropriate health and safety measures when working from height has been emphasised by the HSE following the prosecution of a Lancashire skip hire firm. Christopher Jones, owner of Bacup-based Shadlock Skips, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the videoing of an incident by a member of the…
The big news in recycling this month is that there will be a significant announcement shortly from the European Commission with regards to recycling and resource use across the European Union. Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik is to reveal details for a resource efficiency target, new recycling and waste incineration targets as well as a plan to…
The first of WasteCare’s Solar Arrays is to be switched on this month. “Once the rain stops and we hopefully see a little sunlight, we hope to be generating over 350kW of electricity at our Normanton facility”, explained Graham Kemp, Group Recycling Director. Mr Kemp added: ”We are planning a further three installations this year and…
The UK reprocesses large volumes of secondary raw materials through recycling within the domestic market. However, there is a large export trade such as in used cardboard, scrap metal and textiles and from 2017 the rules for exports are to be tightened up. The main change is that there will be more checks on the…
WasteCare last month unveiled its new paint and ink recovery plant. Capable of handling solvent based paints as well as aqueous and UV cured inks and paints, the plant is capable of processing over 20 tonnes a day. Much of the recovered paint is suitable for the reuse market whilst solvent paints can also be…
WasteCare has recently won two new national contracts for the collection of fluorescent tubes and batteries. Already the largest recycler of batteries, WasteCare is soon to be the largest collector of fluorescent tubes, sodium lamps and low energy lighting in the UK. Along with the national service for collecting and recycling whole luminaries, WasteCare is…
