6 February 2019Arla discounts UK for wood-based cartons
Food manufacturer Arla has announced it has become the first company in Finland to use gable-top food cartons made from renewable wood-based paperboard which can be recycled in the waste paper stream. The cartons for milk, yoghurt...
10 January 2019Seneca to supply Rotherham biomass facility
Seneca Resource Recovery has begun a three-year contract to supply 12,000 tonnes-per-year of waste wood biomass fuel to the Templeborough Biomass Power Plant in Rotherham. North London-based Seneca, which is a part of the ...
21 December 2018Hazardous waste wood testing – an update
Clarification has emerged about work taking place to aid the classification of waste wood as either hazardous or non-hazardous from construction and demolition sites. Details were published on Monday of an ongoing project to test ...
21 December 2018December 2018 news round-up
With news on: Wood packaging recycling targets; personnel changes at Suez, and; plant investments for Mick George and ETM.
20 December 2018Enva announces Hadfield Wood Recyclers acquisition
Leading wood waste processing business Hadfield Wood Recyclers has been acquired by the services company Enva – the two firms have announced today (20 December). The acquisition sees Enva grow its presence in the UK market – ...
17 December 2018Research looks at waste wood in construction sector
EXCLUSIVE: A project is underway in the construction sector to test waste wood for any hazardous content. Early findings suggest that some treated wood arising from the demolition of buildings built before 2008 could be hazardous. The testing...
7 December 2018Wood-waste Fire Prevention Plan guidance released
The Wood Recyclers Association has launched a ‘sector-specific’ Fire Prevention Plan (FPP) guide for wood recycling businesses, developed in “close association” with the Environment Agency. It is hoped the guide will ...
4 December 2018Eight-metre stack agreed in UK Wood Recycling fire plan
UK Wood Recycling (UKWR), part of the Hadfield Group, has received approval for the first Fire Prevention Plan (FPP) allowing waste wood to be stored in stacks of up to eight metres in height. The Middlesbrough-based company ...
16 November 2018Recycle wood first, says Committee on Climate Change
Waste wood should be “reused and recycled wherever possible” before being used as a biomass feedstock, a high level report for government said this week. The recycling emphasis came as part of a report yesterday (16 November) ...
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