English local authorities are being invited to bid for the third portion of WRAP's 18.7 million Local Communications Fund.
The fund, launched last December (see letsrecycle.com story), aims to boost waste awareness campaigns at a local. The 8.5 million slice of the fund, is for councils with existing recycling infrastructure to increase capture rates.
It follows a 1.7 million for councils with existing awareness campaigns and 8.5 million for councils given conditional grants from the third round of DEFRA's Waste Minimisation and Recycling Fund (see letsrecycle.com story).
Commenting on the funding, WRAP's new communications director, Gareth Lloyd, said: “Engaging the general public is one of the most critical challenges if the UK is to continue to improve its recycling performance.”
WRAP will be running a series of seminars during March to help councils to apply for the fund. However, councils have only been given six weeks to apply for the fund, with the deadline set at April 14, 2004.
Cobring takes early retirement from British Glass Recycling Company
John Cobring has taken early retirement as general manager of the United Glass-owned British Glass Recycling Company.
The surprise early departure of Mr Cobring, who has also had recycling duties within United Glass, comes after only two years in the post, although Mr Cobring had said he had only wished to hold the position for a limited period.
Roger Kirk, finance and logistics director for United Glass, said that in the short term, John Forsyth and Jim Powell will respectively cover Scotland and England as recycling development executives. In the interim Mr Kirk will handle issues relating to packaging waste regulations and PRNs.
London Remade finds initial success with new Materials Service
London Remade's new Materials Service has made 25 matches between suppliers and reprocessors of recyclates since its October start.
Part of the Mayor of London’s Green Procurement Code, the service matches waste materials from organisations in the capital with recycling firms.
So far, the Materials Service has successfully matched producers of waste tyres, computers, spectacles and cans with recyclers.
The London boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow have used the service to find outlets for materials collected at their refurbished household waste recycling centres.
Trevor Watkins of Hounslow council told letsrecycle.com: “We have found the service useful it has given us the confidence to let out more and more materials at our recycling sites,” he said.
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