8 January 2021Countrystyle acquires Indigo Waste Services
Countrystyle Recycling has announced the acquisition of East Anglia-based walking floor haulage and bottle bank collection specialist, Indigo Waste Services, for an undisclosed sum. The companies noted that since 2004, Indigo ...
24 December 2020‘From strength to strength during challenging times’
Tim Gent, director of glass recycling company Recresco, reflects on how the company has made the most of a challenging year. This year has been one like no other bringing unprecedented challenges...
23 December 2020Fatality sees F&R Cawley guilty of two offences
Luton-based F&R Cawley have been found guilty of two health and safety offences in the wake of an incident in 2014 when employee, driver Peter Coleman died in an incident in Watford. The incident took place on Watford borough ...
18 December 2020British Glass launches resources for local authorities
Trade association British Glass has joined forces with resources charity WRAP and national campaign Recycle Now to launch a set of glass recycling resources aimed at local authorities. Created by British Glass and design agency ...
11 November 2020Cardiff considers separate glass collections
Cardiff council is looking at rolling out separate glass collections across the Welsh capital early next year, in a move which it says could save it £55 per tonne of glass collected. The proposed move would follow a change to ...
30 October 2020Northumberland to trial glass collections
Northumberland county council is to pilot a monthly glass collection scheme from Monday (02 November) in a bid to boost recycling rates. Four thousand households across four areas of Northumberland will each receive an ...
29 October 2020‘Unbelievable’ rise in glass other PRNs
The second quarter of 2020 saw 135,220 packaging recovery notes (PRNs) issued for glass other: an exceptionally strong performance, and in lockdown too. James Langley investigates why.
8 October 2020Lockdown provides paper sector with unexpected boost
The coronavirus-enforced lockdown provided the UK recovered paper sector with an unexpected "fillip", the chief executive of the Recycling Association said today (8 October). Simon Ellin attributed the change to the flow of ...
2 October 2020Viridor’s recycling assets ‘on the market’
A long-talked of sale of Viridor’s recycling assets looks to be moving closer. Within the waste management sector there is a growing expectation that Viridor’s new owners, KKR, have opted to sell on the recycling activities ...
Implications of the Wheelabrator Kent EfW rejection - https://t.co/390pIzt4Zb
Brexit ‘increases bureaucracy’ around waste exports - https://t.co/eQO2FLpPSS
Suez rejects Veolia’s £9.6bn takeover offer - https://t.co/O6RxiRwLMx
