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The 1st of May saw the annual awards for excellence take place at the Landmark Hotel in London. As well as many awards being given out to successful nominees including Dunelm, Arla Foods and Warrington Borough Council, LetsRecycle also launched the new Zero Waste Awards of which WasteCare is the main sponsor. Members of WasteCare’s…
Following the success with trials on behalf of three council authorities, WasteCare are this month launching a new service, under the CylinderCare name. Unwanted gas cylinders cause a major headache for all involved. Those who have cylinders and don’t know where to return them usually take them to the local civic amenity site. Otherwise they…
The 16th March is the initial deadline for submission of expressions of interest in the government’s Weekly Collection Support Scheme. This is a challenge fund which will make up to £250m available to support local authorities in delivering better weekly collections of household waste and recycling. The fund is open to bids from English local…
Local authorities may be made to deal with fines over waste management and recycling which were previously levied at a National level. This is now the subject of a European consultation. Local authorities have been warned on a number of occasions that if they failed to meet landfill diversion targets, they could be fined millions…
Figures announced at the start of February for the first quarter of 2011/12 (April-June 2011) showed that 44% of household waste was sent for recycling, compost and reuse. When analysed over the course of the rolling year to minimise the effect of any seasonal fluctuations, this means that 42% was recycled between July 2010 and…
Residents in Bristol are going to have to recycle more in order to efficiently deal with rubbish come the New Year. In 2012, the normal 240 litre black bins will be replaced with a smaller 180 litre version. That equates to about one less bag of general rubbish every fortnight, the bin will fit about…
The European parliament environmental committee has voted in favour of the weee recycling target eventually rising to 85%. The rise would be staged over several years with a target of 45% of material to be collected by 2016 and 65% by 2020. However there is still some disagreement between the parliament and council over how…
Lord Taylor of Holbeach has succeeded Lord Henley as minister for waste and recycling at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Lord Henley left the post at Defra to become crime prevention minister at the Home Office in a small government reshuffle due to the stepping down of the current incumbent, Baroness Browning,…
WeeeCare, WasteCare’s WEEE compliance arm has recently won another tender to collect WEEE from Devon County Council. Hot on the heals of winning Telford and Wrekin in June, this contract further strengthens our development in the civic authority sector. The contract starts on the 1st of September 2011 and will last for a minimum 2…
The plan to promote battery recycling in homes is gathering pace. BatteryBack has now taken delivery of 150,000 of battery boxes intended for use in the home. Already over 1000 schools (120,000 children) have asked to join the scheme. The plan is to expand the scheme nationally in the autumn term. Schools are offered incentives…
