7 August 2020Staff incidents at separate HWRC sites
The emergency services were called to two separate incidents involving members of staff at recycling centres in Somerset and Worcestershire during the past few weeks. West Mercia police are appealing for witnesses after a worker ...
7 August 2020News in Brief (07/08/20)
With news on: community groups in Merseyside awarded a share of £150,000; Nottinghamshire's HWRCs reopen fully for summer; Central Bedfordshire refuse truck named after 8-year-old; Enforcement Undertakings; and...
7 August 2020Re-use shops report varying levels of donations
Suffolk residents have been urged to donate ‘quality items’ to re-use shops in Foxhall and Bury St Edmunds as part of a visit to the region’s recycling centres. FCC Environment, the waste management company that runs the ...
7 August 2020Wheelabrator allowed to raise Kemsley throughput
Wheelabrator Technologies has been granted a permit variation by the Environment Agency for its Kemsley energy from waste (Efw) which will see its throughput increase from 550,000 to 657,000 tonnes annually. This will be achieved ...
6 August 2020Trident Park reaches 1m tonnes milestone
Viridor and the Prosiect Gwyrdd (Green Project) partnership in Wales have announced that one million tonnes of non-recyclable waste, has been diverted from landfill and used to generate energy at the Trident Park energy recovery facility.
6 August 2020Police raid waste disposal scheme ‘linked to New IRA’
Cash concealed in a recycling bin and a safe was seized by police in a raid on an alleged illegal waste disposal scheme with links to dissident republicans in East Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Detectives from Northern Ireland’s ...
6 August 2020Cumbria and Doncaster in plastic road initiatives
Cumbria county council and Doncaster council are both participating in separate highway and kerbside initiatives using recycled plastic materials following successful trials. Cumbria ...
5 August 2020Recycleye gains funding for MRF sensor technologies
London-based start-up Recycleye has secured £500,000 in funding from Innovate UK to trial a sensor it says replicates “the power of human vision” to identify items in waste streams. With the funding Recycleye says it ...
5 August 2020EA chief executive praises ‘good regulation’
Good regulation is essential for tackling the climate emergency and rebooting the economy in the wake of coronavirus, the chief executive of the Environment Agency argued yesterday (4 August). In a speech to the London Chamber of ...
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