January 08, 2009
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Waste & Recycling Newsletter January 08, 2009 |
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Reduced landfill saves council GBP 2.1m
Cheshire County Council has saved GBP 2.1 million by reducing the waste it sends to landfill. The council has been able to free-up the cash due to a forecast 20 per cent reduction in landfill use, equalling about 50,000 tonnes. “There has been a significant fall in the amount of rubbish we are having to landfill,” said the council’s Environment Executive Member Andrew Needham. “This reduction compared to last year’s figure has happened for two main reasons. Recycling at our household waste recycling centres has more than doubled to 65 per cent under our new contractor H W Martin. This new contract ... |
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Recycling firms could get GBP 650m from European Investment Bank
Small waste and recycling companies could benefit from a GBP 650 million pot from the European Investment Bank (EIB), the lending bank of Europe, to help beat the credit crunch this year. At a time where small businesses are falling prey to the economic downturn, the EIB signed three new loans for small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) before Christmas totalling GBP 650m. Three banks, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Barclays Bank and the Bank of Scotland (HBOS), will act as financial intermediaries for the EIB funds, passing them onto SMEs with projects which further European Union policy ... |
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