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A £3.8 million fund for waste sorting, repair and recycling projects launched by the Scottish Government is now open. The Scottish Recycling Fund, which is designed to help businesses develop green infrastructure proposals, was announced by Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead at the recent ‘Safeguarding Scotland’s Resources’ conference in Edinburgh. The fund will make loans available…
Defra minister for farming, food and marine environment George Eustice has sought to allay fears that waste will be side-lined in the wake of cuts at the Environment Agency. The Camborne and Redruth MP said impending cuts to staff and recent flooding would not affect the Agency’s ability to address waste-related issues. Defra and the…
Constantly providing power to over 25 million homes can take its strain on the national infrastructure and the hardware that supports it. Thankfully the National Grid team are seasoned professionals at maintaining and servicing the vast amount of equipment throughout the UK. The side effect of this on-going effort is a build-up of used oil…
Company directors at recycling firm Wormtech have received suspended prison sentences for allowing “mountains” of rotting food and plant waste to pollute the countryside, a court heard. Wormtech Ltd directors Jacqueline Powell, 58, Jonathan Westwood, 38, and Robert Baynton, 42, were warned repeatedly by both the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales to take adequate…
WasteCare is constantly striving to improve the service experienced by customers throughout its wide range of services. Waste management is a complicated business requiring many different skillsets in order to complete the job in time whilst satisfying stringent regulations. The past few weeks has seen the start of a major new training initiative to train…
There will be no return to evidence trading to make up for surplus collections by members of the waste electronics industry, a letter from the department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has confirmed. New WEEE regulations introduced a collection target for producers. A compliance fee was also introduced for those who do not meet…
England’s recycling rate has risen slightly from 43.2 in March 2012 to 43.3 percent, according to provisional quarterly statistics on local authority collected waste. Defra also announced that as of May this year the calculation of household recycling will exclude gulley emptying and street sweepings as well as other waste that is not coming directly…
The Environment Agency has recently issued new guidance regarding the collection of waste packaging. The revised technical guidance (WM2) came into effect from 1st Jan and last week the EA issued a draft letter clarifying what the new changes mean. Final confirmation is expected shortly. Definition – All used packaging is now considered waste under…
WasteCare Group ensures NCP completes its national switchover with 100% recycling. Recent innovations in lighting have seen the technology behind the lighting become steadily more efficient, firstly with energy saving bulbs allowing bulbs to last for many years longer and then more recently with LED bulbs supplying light lasting for double the time at a…
Following the recent upheaval caused by the introduction of the new WEEE2 Regulations, WeeeCare Plc is pleased to find that the overwhelming majority of members have stayed loyal to the UK’s favourite compliance scheme. The new de minimis limit meant that many smaller members could go it alone. However, WeeeCare’s unique offering ensured that smaller…
