Millennials ‘least likely’ to recycle
Results from a poll on behalf of services company, Serco, have found that millennials are the ‘least likely’ age group to recycle.
According to Serco, only 49% of 16-34 said they recycle all they can – a fall of eight percentage points year on year. This compares with 70% of 35-54 year olds, 83% of 55-74 year olds and 81% of those aged over 75.
For 16-34 year olds, the most common reasons given were confusion over what can be recycled (16%), the need for recycling collections to be more frequent (12%), and not having recycling bins or bags (11%).
A number of 16-34 year olds admitted they either can’t be bothered with recycling (4%) or find it too time consuming (7%), while 5% said they didn’t believe that waste separated for recycling is actually recycled.
Across all age groups, 68% of UK residents said that they recycle all they can, a fall of three percentage points on last year.
The findings come from a poll conducted by Serco’s Environmental Services business and long-term research partner Future Thinking, which surveyed over 3,000 members of the general public.
WMBA announces ‘significant’ growth
The Waste Management Brokers Association (WMBA) has announced significant growth since opening its membership at the recent RWM Exhibition in association with the CIWM.
The WMBA, works to represent brokers, service suppliers and associate members in providing a united voice for the outsourced model.
According to WMBA, new members come from a range of different business types from waste managers to insurance brokers and includes, The Shredding Alliance, Simply Waste, Weir Waste, Olleco, Lowmac Alloys, Hills Group and Thomson & Richardson.
The Association has also announced plans for its first event designed specifically for UK brokers. The interactive event will look at how the sector can work more closely together to raise the profile of the outsourced model, build closer relationships with its supply chain and continue to innovate to deliver environmentally and commercially sustainable solutions for customers.
Resource Association welcomes Affiliate Members
The Resource Association has announced that compliance specialist Ecosurety and software specialist start-up Dsposal have joined the Association as Affiliate Members.
Both companies were accepted into membership by the Association’s Board at their Autumn meeting.
Chief executive Ray Georgeson commented: “We share with Ecosurety a common desire to see greater transparency in the waste and recycling sectors. We are also pleased to welcome Dsposal as a start-up software business with strong interests in environmental compliance and the waste and resources sector.”
Robbie Staniforth, commercial manager of Ecosurety added: “We want to use our unique vantage point of understanding both the producer’s and recycler’s positions, and suggest workable and sustainable improvements that will increase the UK’s overall recycling rates.”
Tom Passmore, CEO & Co-founder of Dsposal concluded: “We’re delighted to join the Resource Association and look forward to meeting and working with our fellow members in the coming months.”
CDEnviro named NI ‘Small Business of the Year’
Waste management specialist, CDEnviro has been named Small Business of the Year in the Northern Ireland Chamber Business Awards and will now progress to the national final in London on 30 November.
The Chamber Business Awards – run by the British Chambers of Commerce – are open to organisations of all sizes and from all sectors.
According to CDEnviro, the judges in the Small Business category were looking at potential for growth, innovation, commitment to staff, strong managerial performance and competitive differentiation of products/services.
CDEnviro’s chief operating officer, Marc Jennings, who accepted the award on behalf of the company, said: “We’re delighted that we are able to represent and promote the waste management industry through our participation in these awards.
“Our mission is to continue to ask the difficult questions, take on the difficult challenges and develop new solutions to transform today’s waste into tomorrow’s assets.”
Roadchef renews contract with UKWSL
Waste company, UKWSL, has announced the renewal of its contract with motorway service operator, Roadchef.
The renewal sees UKWSL in charge of Roadchef’s waste and recycling services in 22 of its key sites for a further 5 years, a contract reported to be worth £4.5 million over the period.
According to UKWSL, the past two years have seen an ‘enormous’ reduction in the use of on-site compactor machines.
Reducing collections in turn minimises the environmental impact by reducing the associated carbon footprint of vehicle operations.
UKWSL’s is also trailing expansion of its remit to include grounds maintenance in addition to the traditional waste and recycling services. These trial operations see UKWSL using the coffee grounds from their three internal composters to fertilise the grounds of the service areas.
The event will take place in January 2018 with the date and venue to be announced in the coming weeks.
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