MWDA completes work on Bidston centre
The new layout, which was completed earlier this week (May 5), features separate entry and exit points and a new access route to Bidston Moss community park. The MWDA site also features a household waste recycling centre, a materials recovery facility, a waste transfer station and a visitors' centre and also gives access to the Bidston Moss community woodland – a former landfill which has been transformed into green space adjacent to the waste facility.
Carl Beer, director of the MWDA, said: “These improvements will allow the public to access the Recycling Centre separately to the lorries using the Waste Transfer Station, making the site safer and easier to get around.”
Viridor selected as Coca Cola recycling supplier
Soft drink giant Coca Cola Enterprises has selected waste management company Viridor as its preferred supplier to recycle and recover waste from its production plants in Great Britain.
Coca Cola Enterprises said that it chose the company, which is part of the FTSE-100 listed utilities company Pennon Group, due to its existing infrastructure and proven track record in the waste management and recycling sector. Coca-Cola is hopeful that the joint collaboration will provide a bespoke solution focusing on sustainable packaging and recycling, with Viridor providing the waste management expertise.
Nick Davison, business development director of Viridor, said: “The award of this contract is a testament to our value and continued investment in state of the art facilities for recycling and recovery. CCE is an incredibly forward thinking organisation and are looking to set new industry benchmarks for recycling and waste recovery”.
Closed Loop “impresses” MP Nick Herbert
During the visit to the state-of-the-art facility in Dagenham, Mr Herbert was told about the future economic value of recycled plastic as well as the impact the company's work has on the environment. Mr Herbert – who was joined by Simon Jones, Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for the London Borough of Dagenham and Rainham, and Paul Levett, deputy chief executive of Veolia Environmental Services – was also briefed on the company's new ‘Design for Recycling' campaign which aims to educate supermarkets, big brand owners and packaging manufacturers about effective packaging design which maximises recyclability.
Mr Herbert said: “I was highly impressed with this modern facility which demonstrates how the problem of waste can be transformed into an opportunity. We cannot go on landfilling waste in this country, and we must make further progress in increasing rates of recycling, particularly in London.”
EA Wales seeks views on £150m Cardiff EfW
The Environment Agency Wales is seeking views on an application by waste management firm Viridor for an environmental permit to operate a £150 million energy-from-waste (EfW) facility on the outskirts of Cardiff.
The permit application for the proposed 350,000 tonnes-a-year capacity plant at Trident Park, Ocean Way, is open to public consultation until Friday July 10 2009. The Environment Agency, which is the regulator of EfW facilities in England and Wales, is set to hold drop-in information sessions to talk to residents about concerns over the plant and has stated that it will not issue an environmental permit if it believes that an energy from waste facility will cause significant pollution to the environment, or harm the health of adjacent communities.
Cliff Moyce, area manager for South-East Wales at the Environment Agency, said: “Over the next two months, we will be consulting on this application with our statutory consultees, including the Local Health Board and Cardiff county council. We will continue to talk to all interested parties on the progress of this application, including nearby communities.”
Store to trial recycled cardboard milk carton
Manufacturer GreenBottle has produced the carton, which is also called GreenBottle, and claims it is the UK's first environmentally friendly milk carton as it has a carbon footprint 48% lower than plastic bottles. GreenBottle has linked up with the East of England Co-operative Society to trial its recycled carton, which works with a ‘bag in a carton' concept, in the Framlingham Co-op supermarket in Suffolk. The GreenBottle is also currently available in ASDA stores in Norwich, Great Yarmouth, and Lowestoft following successful trials (see letsrecycle.com story).
Martin Myerscough, inventor of the GreenBottle, said: “We are excited to be furthering our availability in East Anglia, at a time when consumers increasingly are looking for sustainable and environmentally-friendly alternatives, borne from an ongoing concern about the environment and climate change.”
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