Throughout the month of June WasteCare will be offering an extra free Box IT with every initial Box IT bought, as always collections are free. The Box IT is a convenient and cost effective method of storing and recycling unwanted IT equipment. WasteCare provide secure destruction for all digital data. A Blancco gold partner, our…
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WRAP calls for WEEE recyclers to collect more rare-earth metals
WRAP has called on WEEE recyclers to move away from shredding material in order to ensure valuable rare earth metals are not sent to landfill. In May, WRAP chief executive Dr Liz Goodwin claimed that ‘canny’ recyclers of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) could recover more high value material such as gold, silver, platinum…
Questions raised over Weekly Collection Support Scheme as deadline looms
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…
EU Fines Consultation
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…
England’s recycling rate at 42%
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…
Almost 50 percent of plastic bottles being recycled
This is according to a new survey undertaken by plastic recycling industry body Recoup. The study was covering 2010 and found that nearly 50 percent of all household plastic bottles were recycled. The exact figures show that 48.5 percent were collected by local authorities, that equates to 281,000 tonnes. In addition to this, the number…
Bristol Council getting tough on waste
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…
All packaged up
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…
Packaging – one stop shop
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…
WasteCare goes abroad
WasteCare has recently performed its first collection round outside of the EU. The largest dry cleaning provider in Jersey, Angora Besco, had a large stockpile of hazardous dry cleaning solution and WasteCare was the obvious solution. After completing the mountain of paperwork required for the job and after a year’s negotiation with the Environment Agency…