BCB to submit revised application for £18m EfW
The new application, which will be submitted in tandem with an application to the Environment Agency for an environmental permit, will incorporate new technological developments and replace the original application that was withdrawn on October 13. The site was unveiled last year with the intention of generating 10MW of energy using gasification technology at BCB's existing industrial estate (see letsrecycle.com story).
Phil Boardman, managing director at 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.”
Packaging firm helps Argos recycle 30,000 tonnes of cardboard
As part of a three-year contract, Argos stores throughout the UK return their recyclable packaging waste to one of eight Argos distribution centres, with packaging waste material collected and segregated, before being compacted to mill sized bales and loaded onto trailers at each site. Full bales are collected by Smurfit Kappa Recycling's transport division and taken to the company's paper mills in Kent and Birmingham for reprocessing into new packaging. Smurfit Kappa Recycling has also helped develop a recycling solution for all damaged and unused catalogues, as well as providing recycling for LDPE soft plastic and plastic pallet strapping.
Mark Jones, project manager for central distribution at Argos, said: “Waste and recycling is not the most glamorous end of the retail world but it is a subject which has grown in importance over the past few years and more often finds itself on many CEOs' to do lists.”
Salvation Army launches recycling DVD campaign
The Salvation Army has launched a DVD campaign aimed at promoting clothes recycling for school children, with the best recyclers being rewarded with £100 for every tonne of textiles recycled.
With support from Gary Lineker and Chris Tarrant, the DVD for the Salvation Army Schools Clothing Collection Scheme is intended to show children in assemblies where clothes collected for recycling ends up and encourage them to put their own unwanted clothes in red wheeled bins provided at schools by the Salvation Army Trading Company (SATCoL). With plans to roll the scheme out nationwide, 25 schools in Scarborough and 15 in Milton Keynes have so far signed up to the initiative.
Paul Ozanne, SATCoL's national recycling coordinator, said: “The DVD clearly explains the benefits of clothes recycling, what happens to the clothes we collect and how the money raised goes to support people in need in the local community. Of course, with Chris and Gary's input it's no surprise there is plenty of humour in the DVD too.”
Cawleys appoint group commercial manager
Mr Sommers has worked as a specialist within the field of waste management for nearly 20 years and will now be head of the company's organic waste division and Wastesolve – the national arm of Cawleys. Cawleys claims to be the first waste management company to bring food waste recycling to the commercial sector, using a collection scheme to deliver the waste to an anaerobic digester.
Having recently opened a state-of-the-art Material Recycling Facility (MRF), Cawleys hope Mr Sommers and his team will be able to further the company's commercial enterprise and position within the waste management industry.
Consultancy role for Dr Adam Read
Climate change and energy consultancy AEA has appointed Dr Adam Read to lead its work on Waste Management and Resource Efficiency.
During his career Dr Read has worked with central government and local authorities across the UK helping the design and development of recycling and waste management programmes and he joins AEA from Hyder Consulting where he was technical director and head of its waste management division. Dr Read was also visiting professor of waste management at Northampton University for five years and has supervised waste research at Oxford, Bath Spa, Kingston, Brunel and Imperial universities, while also being a regular guest lecturer on environmental courses across the UK.
Dr Read said: “I am delighted to have joined AEA, one of the world's leading climate change and energy consultancies at what is a very exciting time for the company having recently acquired PPC in North America.”
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