Wood News Archive

  1. Landfill bans considered for nine materials

    Thu 18 Mar, 2010

    Proposals which could have a dramatic impact on waste management launched for consultation - with VIDEO REPORT

  2. Consortium to turn waste into transport biofuel

    Tue 16 Mar, 2010

    Businesses join forces to develop commercially viable pyrolysis process to treat municipal and wood waste

  3. WRAP claims benefits of EfW in updated life cycle research

    Tue 16 Mar, 2010

    Recycling is still most environmentally beneficial option but energy recovery sometimes comparable, says report

  4. Industry-wide concerns over packaging proposals

    Tue 09 Mar, 2010

    Aluminium and wood sectors join plastics trade bodies in raising doubts over suitability of proposed targets

  5. Biowaste Directive plans look set to be dropped

    Mon 08 Mar, 2010

    European Commission hints that it will not pursue separate legislation for biowaste to dismay of international stakeholders

  6. Ambitious targets proposed to recycle over 70% of packaging

    Thu 04 Mar, 2010

    Much-anticipated consultation launched into changes to UK packaging producer responsibility regime

  7. Wales targets landfill bans with new powers

    Tue 23 Feb, 2010

    WAG discusses potential restrictions ahead of UK-wide consultation on bans expected in March

  8. Defra proposes 78% wood packaging recycling target

    Fri 29 Jan, 2010

    Idea mooted ahead of imminent consultation on targets but department is urged to raise general recycling target instead

  9. Hilary Benn points to staged imposition of landfill bans

    Wed 27 Jan, 2010

    In an exclusive interview, the Environment Secretary also reassures councils over the definition of municipal waste

  10. Recession creates "challenging year" for AD

    Wed 20 Jan, 2010

    Trade bodies and sector experts claim funding is largest obstacle facing technology ahead of Defra-backed action plan

  11. Dorset organics firm frustrated by planning process

    Fri 15 Jan, 2010

    Eco Sustainable laments "intolerable delays" in bid to develop 7m biomass facility at Parley site

  12. News in Brief

    Wed 23 Dec, 2009

    With news on Welsh waste minimisation, moving biomass by train and a new qualification for waste management staff

  13. Waste firms hit out at Copenhagen "carbon cop-out"

    Mon 21 Dec, 2009

    Environmental Services Association joins critics of Copenhagen summit for failing to set legally binding emissions targets

  14. WRAP urges restraint over landfill ban plans

    Fri 20 Nov, 2009

    Need to develop infrastructure first highlighted, as concerns also raised over enforcement of any bans

  15. Wood waste–fuelled biomass plant planned in Kent

    Wed 18 Nov, 2009

    Proposed 25MW CHP facility would use 150,000 tonnes of regionally-sourced waste wood a year

  16. Mixture of feedstock for 80MW Peterborough biomass power station

    Mon 09 Nov, 2009

    Developers claim plant will recover or recycle all of its 650,000 tonnes-a-year feedstock of waste and energy crops

  17. Recycled wood grades defined for the first time

    Wed 04 Nov, 2009

    WRA clarifies what kinds of material are suitable for different end markets ahead of official standard development

  18. Quarterly data suggests UK on track to meet 2009 packaging targets

    Wed 28 Oct, 2009

    Figures from the third quarter of 2009 show that packaging recycling levels "much greater than expected"

  19. Increased recycling in Lambeth after HWRC change

    Mon 26 Oct, 2009

    London council claims decision to bar residual waste at household waste and recycling centre has almost doubled recycling rate

  20. Defra to consult on new packaging recycling targets

    Fri 23 Oct, 2009

    Minister says that more work to be done, but retailers claim food waste is a bigger problem

  21. News in Brief

    Thu 15 Oct, 2009

    With news on fundraising by New Earth, appointments at Hadfield and mixed plastics collections in Telford & Wrekin

  22. Viridor beats WRG to Oxfordshire preferred bidder status

    Tue 08 Sep, 2009

    An incinerator is the only financially viable technology for residual waste, says county council

  23. WRAP warns of waste wood shortages

    Tue 01 Sep, 2009

    Report claims that demand for waste wood may outstrip supply in the coming years as economic downturn hits arisings

  24. WRAP overhaul set to create £5.7m in efficiency savings

    Mon 24 Aug, 2009

    Further details of delivery landscape review reveal energy from waste high on agenda for new single resource efficiency body

  25. Beds partnership denies conflict of interest over land purchase

    Wed 05 Aug, 2009

    The issue of land ownership with regard to a waste infrastructure tender has surfaced in Bedfordshire

  26. Municipal waste growth assumptions set to be reviewed

    Tue 28 Jul, 2009

    Defra projection of 1% growth each year to be looked at following fall in UK arisings since 2008

  27. UK's waste wood treatment capacity set to increase

    Wed 22 Jul, 2009

    Yorwaste receives planning permission for 7m plant as Biossence plans gasification facility in East Sussex

  28. News in Brief

    Wed 08 Jul, 2009

    With news on a consultation on PFI contracts, pallet recycling and a Scottish ban on automotive batteries to landfill

  29. Wood Recyclers’ Association under new leadership

    Fri 03 Jul, 2009

    Long-standing secretary Rick Wilcox replaced by Peter Butt as Clem Spencer becomes chairman

  30. Four new materials set for Quality Protocols project

    Thu 25 Jun, 2009

    Cathode ray tube glass, non-virgin wood and tyre bales among list to be considered for end-of-waste criteria

  31. News in Brief

    Thu 25 Jun, 2009

    With news on Brighton's waste strategy, two appointments at REY and a 20,000 packaging fine for a vegetable company

  32. News in Brief

    Tue 23 Jun, 2009

    With news on GMWDA appointments, installing equipment at AWS and a 4m vehicle contract for Horsham

  33. Caution urged over potential landfill bans

    Fri 19 Jun, 2009

    Councils and trade bodies welcome Packaging Strategy but warn infrastructure must be built before bans are introduced

  34. Hadfield wins Greater Manchester wood contract

    Wed 17 Jun, 2009

    Manchester-based company secures one of the UK's largest waste wood deals with Viridor

  35. PTZW tackles infrastructure “hole” in South East

    Wed 03 Jun, 2009

    Dr Chindarat Taylor reports on progress of Pathway to Zero Waste programme in addressing business waste

  36. Chelsea Flower Show recycles 95% of waste

    Wed 03 Jun, 2009

    More than 600 tonnes of material from annual event sorted at Powerday materials recycling facility

  37. Low-grade wood recovery service flagged up to councils

    Tue 02 Jun, 2009

    Gloucestershire-based resource recovery firm Boomeco says phone "ringing off the hook" about export scheme

  38. Hadfield Wood Recyclers expands into South East

    Tue 05 May, 2009

    Manchester-based business leases site at Tilbury Docks to meet "huge demand" for all-grade wood recycling

  39. ACP chairman hails success of PRN system

    Fri 01 May, 2009

    Chairman of the government's Advisory Committee on Packaging looks back at how European packaging recycling targets were met

  40. Wales unveils “most ambitious” UK waste strategy

    Wed 29 Apr, 2009

    Source separation targets amongst range of proposals published for consultation today

  41. EA calls for more CHP capacity in biomass

    Thu 16 Apr, 2009

    Agency predicts facilities using materials including waste wood and food solely to generate electricity may become obsolete

  42. Defra confirms EU packaging recycling targets met

    Thu 09 Apr, 2009

    Department and Environment Agency publish final data showing UK performance in 2008

  43. Waste industry "must address carbon efficiency"

    Thu 26 Mar, 2009

    Mayor of London's appointment to LWaRB calls for carbon to be placed at centre of waste agenda

  44. News in Brief

    Thu 26 Mar, 2009

    With news on a recycling facility in Tamworth, furniture reuse in Wales and investment by Yorwaste

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