Category: NewsBy admin on Jul 2, 2008 in Recycling, Featured, Environment, News | 0 Comments
Hartlepool-based company Able UK has been awarded a controversial contract to dismantle and recycle a French aircraft carrier which was deamed too toxic to break up in India.Â
The agreement to send the Clemenceau, once the flagship of the French navy, to Able UK, ends an embarrassing five-year saga that had the toxic vessel being passed around the […]
By admin on Jul 1, 2008 in News, Business | 0 Comments
The landfill tax in Ireland has been increased today for the first time in six years. The landfill tax has been increased by €5, which is the maximum amount allowed by law. This raises the landfill tax from €15 (£12) to €20 (£16) for every tonne of waste that is sent to an authorised landfill facility.
The changes have […]
By admin on Jun 29, 2008 in Environment, News, Energy | 0 Comments
By 2015 German car giant Mercedes hopes to completely remove petrol powered cars from its range of vehicles. This means within just 7 years they aim to produce only vehicles which run on alternative energy sources, such as battery electrics, fuel cells and highly efficient internal combustion engines that can operate on biofuels.
Mercedes are determined to make […]
By admin on Jun 27, 2008 in Hazardous Waste, Recycling, Featured, News, Energy | 0 Comments
The UK’s first nuclear recycling plant to be based outside an existing atomic facility is being built in Cumbria. The recycling plant is being built by Swedish-based company Studsvik at Lillyhall Industrial Estate near Workington. The site is due to be completed by December and will handle approximatley 3,000 tonnes of scrap metal a year from […]
By admin on Jun 27, 2008 in Recycling, News, Home & Garden | 0 Comments
Marks and Spencer’s has this month become the first retailer in the UK to trial the use of recycled plastic in food and drink packaging on a large scale and to gauge customer reaction to the concept.
The project is being run in conjunction with an Australian owned recycling company called Closed Loop Recycling. London Remade are […]
By admin on Jun 25, 2008 in Household Waste, Recycling, Featured, News | 0 Comments
Lincolnshire County Council members will today be asked to back a £917m recycling scheme aimed at helping the county to meet new recycling targets over the next 28 years.
The plan includes building an ‘Energy from Waste’ unit - a combined heat and power plant to generate electricity for sale to the national grid and heat […]
By admin on Jun 23, 2008 in Hazardous Waste, Featured, Environment, News | 0 Comments
An international waste management meeting is being held in Bali, Indonesia to highlight the dangers of hazardous waste. The five-day meeting with ministers from nearly 170 countries will focus on the impact hazardous waste has on human health and livelihoods. They will also be considering setting up a new body on electronic and computer waste.
The conference […]
By admin on Jun 17, 2008 in Recycling, Environment, News, Home & Garden | 0 Comments
European Union lawmakers approved new targets today for the recycling and re-using of waste, and measures to reduce the amount of waste that is incinerated or dumped in landfill sites.
The European Parliament voted for the target of re-using or recycling 50% of the main types of EU household waste by 2020, and 70% of all building and demolition waste.
Europe […]
By admin on Jun 16, 2008 in Recycling, Featured, Environment, News, Home & Garden | 0 Comments
A council which was one of the first in the UK to introduce microchipped wheelie bins ahead of a possible “pay as you throw” scheme has abandoned the project after saying it was unworkable. The idea behind the government-funded project was to encourage households to increase recycling and cut the amount of waste going to landfil […]
By admin on Jun 14, 2008 in News, Business | 0 Comments
Biffa Ltd, one of the UK’s leading integrated waste management businesses, today announced the appointment of Andre Horbach as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr Horbach succeeds William Woodburn, a partner at Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), who served as interim CEO after Biffa was taken private through an acquisition earlier this year. A consortium led […]
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