An accident involving a waste vehicle and a cyclist in Southampton this week is being investigated by police. In line with normal practice, the driver of the Cleansing Service Group vehicle was arrested and bailed following the incident which took place during Tuesday's rush hour.
Police are appealing for witnesses and the Health and Safety Executive said it would await preliminary results of the investigation to see whether it needed to be involved.
Paul Quigley, managing director of CSG, offered the company's condolences to the relatives and friends of the bereaved but could make no further comment because of the investigation.
Vehicle safety remains a priority for the Health and Safety Executive. The accident is believed to be the second this month involving a waste vehicle, see (see letsrecycle.com story)
Northamptonshire website offers landfill diversion studies
Advice on cutting costs, green training and buying recycled is now on offer on the redeveloped Northamptonshire Waste Network website.
The advice is being provided through specialist web development and e-learning provider Cortexa.
One of the case studies on the site describes how a local company diverted 800 tonnes of wood waste from landfill in a year using advice from the NWN to identify a profitable use for the material.
Another food and drink company diverted 300 tonnes of wheat away from landfill by selling it to a local farmer for use as animal feed, saving the company 4,500 a year in disposal costs.
Recycled glass “better than traditional filtration material”
The Waste and Resources Action Programme, which ran the trial says the findings support other WRAP trials in indicating that recycled glass in viable commercially and offers performance benefits over traditional filtration media.
Andy Dawe, materials sector manager for glass at the organisation, said: “Reed beds are becoming increasingly popular, as they can be part of sustainable urban drainage systems. So there's potentially a large market for recycled glass as a base medium in these and other effluent filtration systems.”
The recycled glass was used on the turkey site an alternative to traditional washed gravel as the base material for a reed bed with the assistance of consultants Aqua Enviro.
The glass was found to have performed successfully in comparison to quarried gravel in removing suspended solids and biological oxygen demand from effluent before it was discharged into the local water course, according the WRAP.
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