Defra has implemented a de facto EEE Category 15 for vapes via a Producer Compliance Scheme Balancing System, to ensure collection and recycling costs are covered by vape manufacturers and importers. Disposable vapes have quickly become one of the most talked-about topics in the UK, with the waste, environmental, and public sectors raising countless…
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Record Attendance, Waste Management Solutions, and the Silver Lady: Wastecare’s Roundup of this Year’s RWM Expo
The Wastecare team are back from a jam-packed two days at the Resource and Waste Management Expo at the NEC – and it did not disappoint! As one of the key sponsors of the event, with our logo gracing the entranceways and lanyards, and our famous Silver Lady Bus standing proudly on our stand…
Wastecare Group Successfully Passes Stage 1 Audit of ISO 45001 Certification
Wastecare Group, a specialist in hazardous waste management solutions, is pleased to announce the successful completion of the Stage 1 audit for ISO 45001 certification. This achievement underscores the company’s unwavering commitment to maintaining the highest standards in occupational health and safety management systems.
Redefining Circular Economy: How Industrial Ecology Theory is the Cornerstone to a Sustainable Approach
In a paper published by the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE), they present the Circular Economy from the perspective of a scientific field whose historic theories and findings inspired the concept – Industrial Ecology. Industrial Ecology is ‘the study of systemic relationships between society, the economy, and the natural environment. It focuses on the…
WasteCare to Sponsor & Exhibit at the 2023 Resource & Waste Management Expo
WasteCare are excited to announce that we will be exhibiting and officially sponsoring the upcoming Resource & Waste Management Expo 2023 at the NEC Birmingham in September. You can find us on Stand R-J184, with the entire team and a certain iconic bus – it will be hard to miss us! Stop by to discuss…
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
We will be closed on Monday 19 September as a mark of respect for the State Funeral for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and to offer our colleagues the opportunity to pay their respects
The Art of Recycling
The WasteCare Group is committed to providing our customers and clients an environmentally positive recovery solution for dealing with some of the more challenging waste streams. From portable batteries to WEEE, inorganic alkalis to organic acids and all hazardous and challenging waste in between, we are here to return recoverable value whilst all but eliminating…
Regulator Approves UK’s First Recycling Plant for Household Batteries
Specialist waste management firm, WasteCare, has opened the UK’s first full-scale household battery recycling facility following approval from the Environment Agency (EA). The £2 million state-of-the-art facility in Elland, West Yorkshire has processing capacity for 25,000 tonnes of household batteries meaning it can recycle all UK’s spent alkaline batteries and avoid them being shipped to…
WasteCare November COVID-19 Update
Managing your waste through lockdown and beyond It has been eight long months since the UK’s first lockdown, intended to delay the spread of COVID-19. As many predicted, the onset of winter has brought a further increase in the infection rates and the government have responded with a second national lockdown, commencing today. We wish…
TrolleyCare trial successfully installed at Asda supermarket
TrolleyCare is the latest service to be offered by WasteCare in response to health and safety issues brought to light by the recent Coronavirus pandemic. Utilising the same electrostatic misting technology used to decontaminate workspaces and vehicles, the TrolleyCare machine also kills 99.99% of all known bacteria and viruses. The electrostatically charged micro droplets of…