Cory makes gains on the high street
Over the next month, the company will implement a mixed recycling scheme to 125 stores run by optics and hearing care specialists Scrivens Limited, and 50 stores belonging to boot maker Jones'. CERS, has been already been providing waste solutions for some of Scrivens stores since May, which has led to an improvement in the company's recycling performance.
Julian Harrison, CERS director, said: “The team at Recycling Services has worked extremely hard to develop an award-winning service and it is a great pleasure to see those efforts bear fruit with the award of these contracts.”
Oran invests in fleet of Mercedes-Benz trucks
The company, which was recently acquired by Irish water service contractors Response Group (see letsrecycle.com story), currently operates a fleet of more than 130 trucks from 11 depots nationwide, with Scania and Volvo providing the majority of the vehicles. Oran claims that the new Mercedes-Benz trucks have excellent all-round visibility and excellent traction for tipping on landfill sites.
Peter Dieghan, Oran's group transport manager, said: “The fact that this is a premium marque also underpins our own reputation for quality in customers' eyes.”
Wirral to give away recycling wheels
A recycling wheel to show residents what items can be recycled in what bin has been released by Wirral Council.
The ‘Recycling Wheel' was launched as part of Recycle Week 2008 at the start of June and is available to all Wirral residents from Wirral Library or One Stop Shop. Made of recycled card, it lists all common household items and gives a comprehensive guide to what waste can go into the grey recycling bin.
Councillor Gill Gardiner, Wirral Council cabinet member for environment, said: “The wheel indicates not only if an item can be recycled in the grey bin, but states whether it can thrown away in the green bin, or taken to a recycling bring site, recycled in the brown garden waste bin or even given to charity.”
WEEE competition winners announced
Emma Daraz and Aimee Barr won top prize out of 120 entries in the Glasgow area and have seen their poster professionally enlarged and pasted onto the recycling banks at the Easter Queenslie recycling site, one of the city's four sites with facilities for recycling waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). The competition was launched by the Valpak-run recycling website recycle-more.co.uk, in partnership with Wiltshire-based WEEE recycling firm Wincanton Recycling.
Sam Blades, recycle-more manager, said: “This initiative ran as a pilot scheme, and we are looking into running similar promotions in other areas of the UK soon.”
Biomass power station given the go ahead
Energy minister Malcolm Wicks has given the go-ahead to Grimsby-based firm Helius Energy plc to build a 65MW biomass power station near Stallingborough, North East Lincolnshire.
The 40MW facility at Scawby Brooks is intended to produce enough green energy to power the equivalent of 100,000 homes and requires approximately 240,000 tonnes of fuel per year. The plant will initially be fuelled by 10% waste wood.
Mr Wicks said: “This is another stepping stone towards powering a greener, cleaner UK.”
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