SITA UK teams up with Catalyst Lend Lease
The partnership with Catalyst Lend Lease, which currently holds a £2.3 billion portfolio of PPP investments in the UK and is the partner firm of construction contractor Bovis Lend Lease, will be used to provide packages for the development of large-scale municipal and commercial waste treatment and recycling facilities for councils.
SITA UK's business development director, John Scanlon, said: “We are looking forward to partnering with CLL on a number of the PPP contracts that we are pursuing. SITA UK's experience in providing innovative recycling and waste management solutions, coupled with the wide PPP experience that both companies have, will ensure that together we can offer value for money solutions that achieve the results our customers are looking for.”
Yorkshire firm installs recycling plant
F. D. Todd, which operates three waste recovery plants across North Yorkshire and a non-hazardous waste landfill, currently processes and recycles 100,000 tonnes of industrial, municipal, commercial and demolition waste each year and undertook the plant development to increase the capacity of material it could handle. Through introducing a number of compatible processing and material handling modules, the Blue Group sourced plant which will enable the waste recovery firm to batch-run waste using individual components of the plant as required.
Richard Todd, managing director, said: “Our new recycling plant has been chosen after detailed consultation with the engineers at Blue and, we feel, represents good value from tried and tested systems.”
Requests for lamp recycling collections rise
Recolight, a specialist WEEE compliance scheme for lamps, has reported a significant rise in the number of individual ‘on demand' site collections it is making; now up to 30 collections per month.
Recolight, which registered its 1000th lamp collection point in August (see letsrecycle.com story), offers a collection service for end-of-life lamps for companies to dispose of lamps in accordance with the WEEE Regulations. Due to the increased demand, the company is now offering businesses which dispose of lamps in the region of 1000 units per month a storage container and arranging for its collection.
Eddie Taylor, chief executive of Recolight, said: “We are pleased to have established a 1000 plus strong national network of registered collection points (CCPs), called RecoNet, across the UK. Through our collection network, we provide businesses that sell, handle, move, process or replace end-of-life gas discharge lamps with a stress free solution to recycling.”
Environmental certificate awards for Donarbon
The company, which is based at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, received the certificates in recognition of successful assessments to the management system standards of Quality Management (ISO 9001), Environmental Management (ISO 14001) and Health and Safety Management (BS OHSAS 18001). The audit came as part of Donarbon's 28-year PFI waste treatment and recycling contract with Cambridgeshire county council.
Sarah Clover, business development director at Donarbon said: “Although it was a lot of intensive work for a core team of staff working to get certification, supported by all our operational staff, the award is well worth the effort since all our existing customers, and potential new ones, know that the services Donarbon provide meet the highest standards set out by BSI.”
Renewed application for North Yorks EfW
Hazardous waste and disposal company BCB Environmental is due to submit a new planning application in the New Year for an energy-from-waste plant in North Yorkshire.
The application, which will be submitted in tandem with an application to the Environment Agency for an environmental permit, will incorporate new technological developments for the plant at Marston Business Park, near Tockwith. The application for the plant, which will utilise gasification technology, replaces the original application which was withdrawn on October 13.
Phil Boardman, managing director BCB, said: “Sustainable electricity generation, such as our proposed energy-from-waste plant, is crucial if the UK is to reduce its carbon emissions and achieve its Kyoto obligations. Our engineers have radically redesigned the proposed gasification process and I am confident it will satisfy the criteria stipulated by the Environment Agency.”
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