18 May 2018
Gender pay: Lessons from the waste sector
OPINION: Paul Taylor, chief executive of FCC Environment, looks at the issue of gender pay in relation to the waste and recycling sector. Mandatory gender pay reporting – the deadline for which was last month – has revealed in...
18 May 2018
Commercialisation and HWRCs
Brian Mayne and John Woodruff from the Resource Efficiency & Waste Management team at Ricardo Energy & Environment look at the options for commercialisation of HWRCs Against a backdrop of...
18 May 2018
ABP collects plastics from the Humber for recycling
More than 2.5 tonnes of plastics have been recovered from waters around the Humber estuary and will be used in the production of shampoo bottles by Procter and Gamble. The collection of the material, which will be shredded to ...
18 May 2018
Veolia wins BID business service in Bristol
Bristol City Centre BID (Business Improvement District) is entering into a partnership with Veolia to deliver a new waste collection service to city centre businesses. Starting this month, the waste collection service will be ...
17 May 2018
Epping rewards flats residents who waste less food
Residents in 1,600 flats in the Epping Forest district council area are to be rewarded with vouchers if they waste less food. Incentives business Local Green Points, explained today (17 May) that the authority had launched a new ...
17 May 2018
East Devon invests in sorting and baling machine
East Devon district council has invested in a “giant” sorting and baling machine to separate more than 5,000 tonnes of recycling a year collected from residents across the district. The council’s ...
17 May 2018
IFAT told tax incentives would drive recycled content
Greater regulation to drive recycling and new tax incentives for producers to use recycled materials were among the policies advocated at a high-level forum at IFAT 2018, Europe’s largest trade show for the sector. A three-hour ...
17 May 2018
Lords back environmental safeguards in Brexit Bill
The government’s EU Withdrawal Bill suffered its 15th defeat in the House of Lords last night, as the parliament’s upper chamber voted in favour of adding environmental safeguards to the proposals. Peers voted by a ...
16 May 2018
Central Beds opts against three-weekly residual waste service
Central Bedfordshire council has committed to introducing a separate food waste collection service for householders, as well as exploring options for the introduction of a separate collection for glass. However, the council has ...
Defra compendium reveals RDF exports fall - https://t.co/AtaXIWwijk
ESA: Meeting EU recycling targets ‘challenging’ - https://t.co/2Ssuu48vMx
Viridor sees ‘strong performance’ in ERFs - https://t.co/1FEsSWxVMe
