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WEEE compliance schemes will be subject to mandatory collection targets from January 2014 under plans to overhaul the way that producers of electronic goods pay for the treatment of waste electricals. The measures were announced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in its response to the consultation on bringing the requirements of…
“Not yet there”, is the answer on the progress of the long awaited WEEE2 regulations. The latest deadline has passed and there is no sign of white smoke yet above Whitehall. We have held off this bulletin, expecting news last week and have now been told to expect an announcement at the end of this…
Although many recyclers provide bespoke solutions in their own right, it is often the case that a mixture of waste management suppliers provides the perfect solution. This month WasteCare have teamed up with Wheeldon Brothers Waste Management to ensure the re-use and recycling of electrical waste. Wheeldon Brothers of Bury, Greater Manchester collect and accept…
A ban on sending plastic waste to landfill must be the ‘last step’ in a long term strategy to reduce the amount of the material that is sent to landfill, plastics recyclers have argued The comments came in response to calls for a continent-wide ban by Europe’s local authorities, represented by the European Committee of…
The Government will look at the viability of introducing hedging to the market for recovered materials, in a move it said would stabilise prices and reduce the impact of fluctuations in overseas demand. According to Defra, hedging – the practice of buying and selling commodities on the basis of future prices – would help to…
A five pence mandatory charge for single use carrier bags will be introduced from Autumn 2015. Last year, over 7bn carrier bags were issued by supermarkets in England and the Government says that far too many of these ended up in landfill, blighted streets and rivers killed wildlife, which costs tax-payers millions of pounds to…
Weekly food waste collections are set to be scrapped from 2014 in Wychavon, Worcestershire, in a bid to save the district council an estimated £550,000 per year. Wychavon district councillors voted in favour of withdrawing the service from January 10 2014 at a meeting of the Executive Board earlier this month, but a final decision…
Last week WasteCare’s main reuse facility in Normanton played host to the members of the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances. The monthly meeting allows the association members to discuss on-going strategy and address key challenges arising within the industry. After expressing interest in the UK leading facility at Normanton, WasteCare were given the opportunity…
The release of the Government’s response to comments raised from its consultation on the proposed changes to the producer compliance system for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has been pushed back to ‘early’ September. The government had originally planned to publish its response on Friday August 16, eight weeks after the conclusion of the…
The WEEE consultation process is fast approaching a conclusion. BIS have confirmed that there were over 250 responses to the consultation and have been able to advise preliminary findings of the consultation. The initial results from the consultation state that there is a requirement for change against the current system. To recap the industry was…
