News Archive

May 2007 News

  1. First proposal for battery recycling regulations unveiled

    31-05-2007

    Defra publishes details of suggested producer responsibility system to meet European legislation

  2. Veolia set to sign £500 million PFI deal in Berkshire

    31-05-2007

    West Berkshire Council names Veolia Environmental Services as preferred bidder for 25-year waste contract

  3. Germany's DSD loses appeal against Europe's monopoly ruling

    31-05-2007

    EU Court rejects appeal by company over collection contracts and use of its recycling symbol

  4. Harrow bounces back from "damaging" contamination issues

    31-05-2007

    London council reduces green waste contamination to less than 10% after 60% of bins were rejected

  5. News in Brief

    31-05-2007

    With news on a company name change, Kent's record recycling rates and composters' action on climate change

  6. Livingstone takes waste battle to EU

    30-05-2007

    London Mayor's concerns about boroughs' waste statistics to be put to European Commission

  7. Plastic windows recycler opens two new sites

    30-05-2007

    North East firm Dekura to save 100,000 miles a year worth of emissions by expanding operations to Devon and South Wales

  8. WEEE market share data shows five dominant schemes

    30-05-2007

    Data released under Freedom of Information shows household electronic goods put on market by members of producer schemes

  9. Entry call to Awards for Excellence

    30-05-2007

    Entries are invited to 2007 Awards for Excellence in Recycling and Waste Management, to be presented in October

  10. Alarm over revised European waste shipment laws

    30-05-2007

    Recyclers warn that export of materials like plastic outside EU could be restricted if non-EU nations are slow to consent

  11. London Mayor to take concerns over LATS "abuse" to Europe

    30-05-2007

    Ken Livingstone goes to European Commission over accusations that the capital's councils are seeking loopholes in landfill diversion

  12. Bristol hails success of food waste collection scheme

    29-05-2007

    With waste strategy encouraging councils to collect food waste, Bristol city council says schemes can work in urban areas

  13. Call for business campaign as "WEEE Day" draws near

    29-05-2007

    Only a few weeks before new recycling rules begin for waste electronics, situation for businesses not yet fully clear

  14. STRATEGY: Paper industry questions Defra waste strategy

    29-05-2007

    Doubt on paper landfill figures within new English waste strategy, plus warning about quality impact of household incentives

  15. Report backs separate food and garden waste collections

    29-05-2007

    Councils will save money by separating out food waste and green waste collections, according to research funded by WRAP

  16. STRATEGY:Further criticism from councils over waste strategy

    29-05-2007

    Local authorities express disappointment but community sector generally pleased

  17. STRATEGY: Packaging recycling targets set for increase

    25-05-2007

    With UK meeting Packaging Directive targets early, government says higher targets are needed beyond 2008

  18. STRATEGY: "Vital" questions posed by strategy

    25-05-2007

    Councils and businesses warn that new English waste strategy fails to address important planning and funding issues

  19. STRATEGY: Targets for waste minimisation and greenhouse gas

    25-05-2007

    Proposals for new local authority performance indicators will be analysed under strategy

  20. Landfill Tax fraud convictions quashed after legal bungle

    25-05-2007

    Three men have jail sentences declared "unsafe" in case of alleged £1m fraud linked to Paradise Wildlife Park, Herts

  21. STRATEGY: Anaerobic digestion gets Defra's backing

    25-05-2007

    Government says emerging technology key to tackling food waste, which makes up around 17% of the average household bin

  22. STRATEGY: Miliband stresses waste reduction message to MPs

    24-05-2007

    David Miliband unveils new long-term waste plans for England, saying waste reduction will have the greatest benefits

  23. STRATEGY: Defra outlines main points of waste strategy

    24-05-2007

    Defra lays out main points of its new English waste strategy following a debate in Parliament

  24. STRATEGY: Consultation on charges and incentives for waste

    24-05-2007

    Three-month consultation for councils to gain powers to charge non-recycling householders and give rebates to recyclers

  25. STRATEGY: Specific material type landfill bans on agenda

    24-05-2007

    Key issues in the strategy include the hiearchy, data, landfill, exports and home composting

  26. STRATEGY: Government accused of bullying householders

    24-05-2007

    Shadow environment secretary Peter Ainsworth hits out in Parliament but David Miliband bites back

  27. STRATEGY: Councils asked to help tackle business waste

    24-05-2007

    David Miliband announces plans to break down the "Berlin Wall" between commercial and municipal waste

  28. Strategy to set food waste as "next frontier" for councils

    23-05-2007

    Defra confirms tomorrow as release date for English waste strategy, featuring household waste charging and anaerobic digestion

  29. Waveney aims for top of recycling league tables

    23-05-2007

    Suffolk authority could achieve recycling rate above 55%, if new food and glass waste collection trials prove successful

  30. Councils warned against landfill target complacency

    23-05-2007

    Spending watchdogs say after "quick wins" achieved in recycling, diverting more waste from landfill will be difficult

  31. London councils hit back at Mayor's "dubious" waste claims

    23-05-2007

    Boroughs deny they are seeking loopholes to inflate landfill diversion targets by reducing trade waste services

  32. Energy white paper unveils support for energy-from-waste

    23-05-2007

    Government to promote energy recovery plants using combined heat and power or emerging technologies like anaerobic digestion

  33. Plastic windows recycler opens two extra sites

    23-05-2007

    North east PVC-U firm saves 100,000 miles a year in vehicle emissions by expanding operations

  34. Waste strategy set to push household recycling incentives

    23-05-2007

    New English waste strategy expected to be unveiled by David Miliband in House of Commons on Thursday afternoon

  35. Planning shake-up misses out major waste infrastructure

    22-05-2007

    Independent commission to deal with planning decisions of national importance – but most waste projects will fall outside its remit

  36. LATS review to look at home composting and council targets

    22-05-2007

    Home composting could count fully towards council waste targets from 2008, pending Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme review

  37. Up to 90% of councils could register to collect WEEE

    22-05-2007

    Up to 90% of local authorities expected to register as DCFs for waste electronics, but fears over loss of scrap value continue

  38. M&S to feature recycled clothes and carrier bag charges

    22-05-2007

    Marks and Spencer reveals progress in "Plan A" programme to cut environmental impact, including measures on packaging and clothing

  39. Ken Livingstone casts doubt over London waste figures

    22-05-2007

    Boroughs, Defra and Agency accused as recorded reduction in municipal waste conflicts with landfills taking more waste

  40. English waste strategy marks "key test" for Miliband

    21-05-2007

    Strategy expected to encourage food waste collections and propose possible "recycling rebate" scheme

  41. London councils hit back at Mayor's "dubious" waste claims

    21-05-2007

    Mayor of London accuses boroughs of using loopholes in the landfill allowance trading scheme to inflate their diversion efforts

  42. Wilcox set for move to state-of-the-art sorting facility

    21-05-2007

    West Midlands-based textile recycler begins developing site to be capable of processing 600 tonnes of rags a week

  43. "Real" recyclers considering changes to buying strategies

    21-05-2007

    Reprocessors backing campaign for quality in household recycling could adopt new pricing systems, or buy foreign material

  44. Wine industry shown how to cut environmental impact

    21-05-2007

    Research shows how bottling wines in UK can cut carbon emissions impact – and help with UK glass recycling

  45. News in Brief

    21-05-2007

    Including news on Cambridgeshire's PFI contract; tree-planting in Blackpool; and awareness raising in Shropshire and Lewisham

  46. Waste container company in administration

    18-05-2007

    Dorset-based MDRC Group expected to be sold-off after administrator takes on company's finances

  47. DTI appoints transport agency to enforce WEEE regulations

    18-05-2007

    Transport Department body, which regulates cars and tractors, is given key role under WEEE regulations

  48. Agency dismisses recycling efforts to fight climate change

    18-05-2007

    "Recycling does not really contribute much to tackling climate change," says Environment Agency's Barbara Young

  49. Community recyclers urged to be "commercially aggressive"

    18-05-2007

    Financial pressures and challenging relationships with public sector prompt new approaches for social enterprise groups

  50. SEPA monitors dust at Midlothian glass recycling facility

    18-05-2007

    Viridor Glass Recycling's site in Bonnyrigg monitored by SEPA following residents' concerns over escaping glass dust

  51. English waste strategy publication date revealed

    17-05-2007

    The strategy is expected to include anaerobic digestion as a good way to tackle carbon emissions

  52. Illegal scrap yards targeted by hazardous waste tsar

    17-05-2007

    Specialist appointed to investigate illegal operators handling scrap metal and to tackle the worst offenders

  53. Newsprint mill unveiled for Norfolk by Palm Group

    17-05-2007

    Used newspapers set to be in demand as third newsprint machine contender emerges for plant in Kings Lynn

  54. News in brief

    17-05-2007

    Including news on abuse towards recycling staff, award-winning milk bottles and a new online system for ordering data

  55. Car dismantler ordered to pay £24,500 in court

    16-05-2007

    Doncaster firm prosecuted for keeping burnt-out ELVs without a licence

  56. Court appeal over definition of recycled fuel oil

    16-05-2007

    Oil recycling firm OSS and the Environment Agency wrangle over whether recycled oil should meet waste legislation

  57. Woman dies in collision with council refuse truck

    16-05-2007

    Victim believed to have stepped out as collection truck reversed down alleyway – police are investigating

  58. Tyre shredding plant gets £400,000 upgrade

    16-05-2007

    Credential Environmental installs new rotors at Breighton facility to prepare for opening of cryogenic plant in Neath this summer

  59. Food waste plan to push Cherwell past 50% recycling barrier

    15-05-2007

    Councillors recommend trial to test fortnightly collection of food waste in the high-recycling Oxfordshire district

  60. IT firm invests £5m in electronics recycling service

    15-05-2007

    SCC upgrades recycling facility in Birmingham as WEEE producer responsibility approaches

  61. Ecco issues letter of intent as newsprint race hots up

    15-05-2007

    Plans for a mill in north-east England move forward as a third contender enters the market

  62. Cardboard milk bottles bid to tackle "plastic mountain"

    15-05-2007

    Trial of cardboard milk bottles raises concerns from local authorities on contamination of recycling collections

  63. News in Brief

    15-05-2007

    Including news on the composting quality protocol, waste awareness, WEEE recycling and building materials re-use

  64. Ealing approves £3.8m recycling improvement programme

    14-05-2007

    London borough gives green light to contractor ECT to introduce measures including kerbside plastic recycling scheme

  65. MPs question DTI on green benefits of WEEE Regulations

    14-05-2007

    MPs including former Defra minister Elliot Morley ask whether waste electronics regulations ignore potential for eco-design

  66. Nationwide standards launched for tyre recycling

    14-05-2007

    WRAP launches PAS 107 and 108 specifications governing manufacture and quality of recycled tyre shred and tyre bales

  67. Paper recycling staff in charity cycling challenge

    14-05-2007

    Staff members from Abitibi-Consolidated's Bridgewater paper mill to cycle across Britain to raise money for charities

  68. Senior government figures to address landfill challenge

    11-05-2007

    High level conference to look at speeding up diversion of waste from landfill to stop UK failing Landfill Directive targets

  69. Strategy to require more council action against fly-tipping

    11-05-2007

    English waste strategy will require councils changing to fortnightly collections to run fly-tipping prevention schemes alongside

  70. SITA buys one of the UK's largest metal recyclers

    11-05-2007

    Purchase of Norfolk firm marks SITA's first venture into the scrap metal industry

  71. Defra "wrong" to reject London waste authority

    11-05-2007

    Lord Whitty, Defra's former minister, questions research behind decision to stick with current waste arrangements

  72. Surrey set for paper recycling boost after TGM acquisition

    10-05-2007

    TGM Environmental to target Surrey businesses for recycling services after acquiring West Horsley firm Waste Paper Co.

  73. Limited impact for weekly waste collection campaign

    10-05-2007

    Handful of councils may review schemes, but councillors believe campaign against fortnightly collections had little impact

  74. Merseyside electronics recycling firm in management buyout

    10-05-2007

    St Helens company M Baker Recycling taken over by directors Andy Slaney and Julie-Ann Adams as Michael Baker retires

  75. Trial gives full bill of health to recycled milk bottles

    10-05-2007

    WRAP publishes results of major trial recycling HDPE plastic milk bottles back into new plastic milk bottles

  76. News in Brief

    10-05-2007

    With news of waste awareness work in Cherwell, Dorset and Croydon as well as a new investment group for waste technologies

  77. Wrexham signs 25-year PFI waste contract

    09-05-2007

    Contract with Waste Recycling Group to bring new composting and materials recycling facilities to the north Wales county borough

  78. Welsh Assembly funding boost for anaerobic digestion plants

    09-05-2007

    Funding offered to projects using anaerobic digestion to process organic wastes from commercial or industrial sources

  79. Ken Livingstone attacks Defra over incineration policy

    09-05-2007

    With new English waste strategy expected end of May, London Mayor hits out at officials he says are "committed to incineration"

  80. London waste and recycling vehicles face emissions crackdown

    09-05-2007

    Mayor confirms recycling and waste vehicles will not be exempt from world's largest Low Emissions Zone, launched 2008

  81. MP calls for research into recycling contamination

    09-05-2007

    Newport East member backs the Campaign for Real Recycling and announces she will put forward an EDM

  82. Full scale operation for £3m WEEE plastics recycling plant

    08-05-2007

    Production underway at Axion Polymers facility in Salford, a plant capable of processing 14,000 tonnes of plastic a year

  83. Big role for boroughs in London's business waste strategy

    08-05-2007

    Councils to help businesses recycle more under Mayor's new plan, which proposes 70% recycling target for commercial waste

  84. Carton producers team up with Tesco for recycling scheme

    08-05-2007

    Shoppers will be able to hand in old cartons for recycling at 100 Tesco stores around UK, under new partnership

  85. News in Brief

    08-05-2007

    With news on WEEE recycling; EU policy; recycling in Barnet; Aggregates life cycle analysis; and plastics recycling in Bristol

  86. Scotland's largest biomass plant to begin firing this year

    04-05-2007

    Facility near Lockerbie will burn waste virgin and recycled wood, expected to be operational by September

  87. Company fined for illegal export of hazardous waste to China

    04-05-2007

    East London company ordered to pay £25,000 for attempting to ship fridge waste containing CFCs

  88. Rising demand for compost from landscape gardeners

    04-05-2007

    New survey results coincide with the bid to boost further uptake of the product in Compost Awareness Week

  89. Latest figures show improvement in UK packaging recovery

    04-05-2007

    Agencies publish packaging waste recycling and recovery data for first quarter 2007, showing improvement – but not for glass

  90. Regional network will allow glaziers to recycle their waste

    04-05-2007

    Yorkshire firms can arrange for collection of glass, wood and plastics under a recycling system

  91. Contamination alert over pay-as-you-throw schemes

    03-05-2007

    Campaigners warn that a move to variable charging for household waste could bring drop in quality for collected recyclables

  92. Evidence problems for UK vehicle recycling system

    03-05-2007

    DVLA says less than half vehicles scrapped last year had certificates issued to prove they were recycled properly

  93. Kent plastic recycling trials back kerbside collection

    03-05-2007

    County council says environmental impact from collecting plastic bottles at five recycling centres outweighed benefits

  94. Clean, green, recycling fleet gets ready for city's streets

    03-05-2007

    Birmingham's new trucks for collecting recyclables meet European standards for low emissions

  95. News in Brief

    03-05-2007

    With news on an acquisition by Sims; trade waste recycling in Blackpool; battery recycling; IT recycling; and hotel waste

  96. Waste officers hit out at "scaremongering" national press

    02-05-2007

    LARAC criticises press for "peddling their own agenda" on bin collections, but concedes more could be done to inform journalists

  97. Rules to change on hazardous farm waste

    02-05-2007

    Agency warns farmers to be aware of new legal controls on dealing with hazardous wastes like pesticides and waste oils

  98. Tesco defends its use of packaging

    02-05-2007

    Supermarket chain says it is trying to cut its packaging use, but that packaging is needed to supply goods to its shelves

  99. Protocols developed to simplify WEEE recycling evidence

    02-05-2007

    Study of 125 tonnes of waste electrical equipment used to establish general assumptions of materials within mixed loads

  100. Aluminium can recycling deal agreed for North East

    02-05-2007

    Novelis Recycling teams up with Abitibi-Consolidated Recycling Europe for Teesside can sorting agreement

  101. Composting firms combine efforts to develop infrastructure

    01-05-2007

    Three companies in East Midlands merge to form Bio Group, to build and operate advanced composting plants

  102. Test success for removal of toxins from WEEE plastics

    01-05-2007

    Researchers believe technology to remove hazardous fire retardants from waste electronics could be on market in two years

  103. HSE considering verdict on Cardiff recycling worker's death

    01-05-2007

    Health and Safety Executive considering jury's narrative verdict on worker crushed by door at Lamby Way recycling facility

  104. Prime Minister expresses doubts on fortnightly collections

    01-05-2007

    Tony Blair says there "may be better ways" of encouraging recycling; local authorities "disappointed" at his lack of support

  105. Weights body option to police retailer WEEE schemes

    01-05-2007

    National Weights and Measures Laboratory look set to enforce in-store takeback schemes for waste electronics

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