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WasteCare Groups packaging compliance scheme, PackCare, has further strengthened its portfolio through a combination of exceptional service and competitive prices. Another successful year has seen the scheme substantially grow its membership as well as adding a number of blue chip names to the family including Belron.
WasteCare’s EEE refurbishment service has expanded greatly in the past few months branching into fridges, freezers, dishwashers, TVs and washing machines. With a large amount of equipment making its way into the site, we are now developing multiple routes to market for the equipment. With such high standards of service already set by the EeeCare…
Operators of municipal waste incinerators are calling for glass from the bottom of the incinerators, known as “bottom ash” to count towards recycling figures. At present this is classed as an aggregate material and processed accordingly but does not constitute as packaging evidence. If successful, such a move could have a big impact on packaging…
The Advisory Committee on Packaging (ACP) has said in its annual report that the UK can “theoretically” meet its target to recycle 57% of plastic packaging by 2017 if more effort is made to collect rigid plastics. More specifically it has stated that the target will only be achievable if all councils renewing their waste…
Following the successful waste management permit application at our HazCare facility in Leeds, the company has announced the expansion of RecallCare. This service provides a secure destruction facility for product recalls and unwanted inventory. The process includes packaging retrieval for paper, plastic and glass recovery and recycling and is suitable for both liquid and solid…
WasteCare has recently signed a deal with Sigma Aldrich to collect contaminated packaging from their customers. Through this deal WasteCare will be collecting from companies such as GSK, AstraZeneca and a number of large universities around the country. WasteCare has also joined forces with Veolia to provide Unilever a drum removal service. Once the Leeds…
Offering a total waste and packaging service to all sectors of industry, WasteCare and PackCare are working in partnership with Pack 2 Pack & RPS to provide a one stop shop solution for all types of waste, packaging and pallet supply. The new venture entitled IPS, Integrated Packaging Solutions is already making inroads into the…
One third of UK councils now collect drinks cartons at the kerbside according to the Alliance for Beveridge Cans and Environment UK. According to the trade body this is following a ‘significant investment’ from its members into the recycling infrastructure. The trade body, which represents packaging manufacturers Tetra Pak, Elopak and SIG Combibloc, has reported…
The amount of plastic bottles collected from kerbside recycling has risen 27 per cent on previous years according to a survey carried out by Recoup and Nampak. They found that 215,576 tonnes of plastic bottles were collected through kerbside recycling schemes in 2009. This represents a rise of 46,610 tonnes on the previous year’s figure….
Supermarket chain Waitrose has announced that from October it will be launching a new way of packaging meat that will eventually save up to 90 tonnes of plastic waste per year. The specially designed ‘snip and slide’ containers will be initially be used for mince and diced meat, and then will be rolled out across…
