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For nearly 20 years our London facility has been in Bow. Always struggling to hear Bow bells, it was sometime ago we outgrew the site. It has taken us over 7 years to find a new location and be able to secure a deal. In 2006, Britain winning the Olympic bid resulted in us being…
The last 10 years, as commodity and property prices have spiralled upwards, has been like being on a crowded elevator without doors: The higher things have got, the more scary it has become. The elevator is now plummeting to the ground and the first imperative is to ensure that we survive the bump at the…
As of the 1st October 2008 Scott Bader has appointed WasteCare as a partner in the recycling of packaging. Norbert Dentresangle our logistics partner will continue to collect the 205lt steel drums but we will now utilise PackCare Ltd (A division of WasteCare) for the collection and recycling of all IBC’s. As part of this…
When WasteCare say ” a one-stop shop for waste”, it is clear they mean it. With the simple aim, to increase recycling and reduce landfill, the company is always seeking to fine new streams to recover, that up to now have often been discarded as general waste. The plastic banners, that supermarkets adorn their buildings,…
Remploy e-cycle – part of Remploy, the UK’s leading provider of sustainable employment services for disabled people – is to play a significant role in the UK’s first-ever free national battery recovery service. Launched on 1 July, the scheme enables batteries of any type and size to be disposed of in specially-designed ‘BatteryCans’ collection canisters…
Time is running out for WEEE producers who may want to reduce substantially the cost of compliance in 2009 or who may simply be unhappy with their existing compliance scheme. The deadline for membership renewal for 2009 is October 15. So producers who do not want to be locked into their existing schemes for another…
Data security (or lack of it) has been grabbing the headlines in recent months and so have increases in the theft of scrap and other types of waste. These days, even fast food outlets are being raided for waste cooking fat! To do its bit to improve security and reduce theft, WasteCare has launched a…
When WeeeCare launched low-cost compliance last year from as little as £6 per tonne, many critics said it was impossible. Bradford has extended its WeeeCare contract, Fred Twiddy, SMOC Environmental Manager commented “WeeeCare has delivered exceptional service levels to all our civic amenity sites. ” As well as collecting WEEE from amenity sites and households…
Following the tremendous success of WeeeCare Compliance and the purchase earlier this year of leading packaging recycling company E Pease & Son of Leeds (renamed PackCare), it was only a matter of time before we established our own packaging compliance scheme. Simplicity and low cost are the common themes but, as many of our current…
Scott Bader, the manufacturer of speciality polymers, has launched a new waste packaging service in conjunction with WasteCare and its subsidiary, PackCare. In common with almost all manufacturing companies, Scott Bader has been keen to minimise environmental impact, reduce landfill and increase production efficiency. Over recent years, as new regulations have been imposed and waste…
