Category Archives: Carbon footprint

23Jan

The Transfrontier Shipment Regulations: Transferring our waste problems onto our neighbours

Posted on 23rd January, 2024

Opinion piece by Matt Stoneman, Wastecare Group Sales Director For centuries, Britain has stood as a beacon of innovation and manufacturing prowess. However, in the last fifty years, a significant portion of our engineering and manufacturing has been outsourced abroad along with many of our inventions developed overseas. Waste management and recycling has followed the…

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16Aug

How to Get Ahead of Mandatory Digital Waste Tracking in the CD&E Industry

Posted on 16th August, 2023

Tarmac, a UK business specialising in sustainable building materials and construction solutions, have pulled together a specialist report which they are hoping will ‘ignite action’ across the industry when it comes to responsible waste management. This report was a response to a mandatory digital waste tracking policy looking to be launched toward the end of…

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01Sep

Summer sunshine

Posted on 1st September, 2014

We think it must have been taken from a hot air balloon or a passing microlight but we were sent this picture last week showing our newly installed solar array on our Normanton LogiCare facility. Having had an unusually high number of sunny days this summer we are confident it was working at its maximum…

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06Mar

WasteCare fleet shed Carbon

Posted on 6th March, 2013

In a bid to reduce the companies Carbon footprint and reduce running costs, WasteCare have recently invested in 40 new trucks. The new vehicles include 4 x 18 tonne rigid vehicles and 36 artic tractor units. After lengthy research and a number of trials, the transport team have managed to source the most reliable and…

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