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Anthony Bartlett – Service Centre Manager When I first started at WasteCare, nearly two years ago, the facility was not operating as it should have been and needed a complete overhaul of working practices and procedures. With the help of Mark Weymouth, my Logistics Manager, and Stuart McNish, the site chemist, and the rest of…
Telford and Wrekin Council has renewed its WEEE contract. We successfully tendered for the contract back in 2010 and when it came up for renewal, Leigh got to work on it straight away and has won the contract again for a further three years with the potential to add a further two years at renewal.
Neil Taylor, a member of our CylinderCare team, was challenged to a fishing match in Kingsbridge, Devon. This is an annual event for all Calor Gas agents. Neil was fishing on behalf of Catley’s Gas Centre and managed to catch 120lb of Roach, Bream and Tench. Calor have invited Neil back next year to defend…
More steel packaging is likely to be needed for recycling this year if first quarter data for UK’s packaging waste system is to be believed. The data shows a fall in tonnages recycled during the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2013. Should you need help with Packaging Compliance,…
More than a third of scrap metal firms are still awaiting a formal licence to trade under the new scrap licensing regime due to delays at local authority level, the body representing the UK’s metals recycling industry has claimed. The Scrap Metal Dealers’ Act, aimed at curbing the trade in stolen scrap metal, officially came…
BatteryBack has set up an agreement with the South Western Ambulance Trust, to provide BatteryBack containers for 100 of their sites. They will be transporting the batteries to the five central locations for monthly collections.
Appeal judges have upheld a fine handed to a South Lanarkshire waste management firm, which was described as the largest of its kind for a waste offence in Scotland. Doonin Plant Ltd and its director Gary Doonin were found guilty of charges relating to the handling of controlled waste without a waste management licence and…
Another win for the Compliance Team is Devon Council. Following the original tender submission in 2011 – we have now secured an extension for the Collection and Treatment of Waste Electronics across the Civic Amenity sites throughout the region.
The complex revisions to the way the UK handles the WEEE Directive – covering waste electrical and electronic equipment – has taken a step further with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills publishing a set of criteria for organisations looking to submit a proposal for a ‘compliance fee’ under the revised WEEE regulations. The…
The Prime Minister has recently commented on the waste management sector. David Cameron, speaking on a visit to the Midlands, praised the number of waste infrastructure projects which are underway in the UK. He said: “Ensuring Britain has first class infrastructure is a crucial part of our long term economic plan: supporting business, creating jobs…
