Wealden District Council has issued a GBP£1.5m tender notice for up to ten new refuse collection vehicles, in order to extend its kerbside recycling service across the district. The three year contract calls for 26 tonne ‘twin ...
Industry figures have welcomed the Government’s decision to undertake a review of waste policy, announced by the environment secretary Caroline Spelman last week. The waste review will focus on creating a zero-waste economy, increasing public ...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)and the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) could face 20-25% cuts in addition to already announced spending cuts, said Chancellor George Osborne today in the Government’s ...
A five year dispute over the legality of the Quinn Glass plant has been settled, after an appeal against the ‘unlawful’ granting of retrospective planning permission for the site was thrown out by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ...
The Government’s Budget announcement today (22 June) has provoked concern from the waste and recycling, and energy industries. Chancellor George Osborne announced a Budget which he said “ensured the burden was fairly shared” with ...
A zero waste strategy has been launched by the Welsh Assembly Government containing a 70% recycling and composting target. Towards Zero Waste is an update of the Welsh Assembly’s 2002 Wise About Waste strategy, which provides a policy framework to ...
A design guide and online tool aimed at helping civil engineers to ‘design out’ waste from construction projects has been launched by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP). The Designing out Waste: a design team guide for ...
Operators of a scrap metal yard have been fined £315,000 after an investigation revealed the site did not have the environmental permits to handle hazardous wastes from vehicles. The fine is a record under the Proceeds of Crime Act for end-of-life ...
Leicestershire County Council has shortlisted two companies to compete for its £137m private finance initiative waste contract. Veolia Environmental Services (VES) and Osiris, a consortium made up of United Utilities Waste Management, Costain ...
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has ordered the Audit Commission to stop encouraging the uptake of alternate weekly collection (AWCs) schemes by local authorities. Pickles will formally write to the Commission – an independent watchdog which ...
The Environment Agency (EA) has announced a new director of environment and business, who will take responsibility for ensuring that companies work to protect the environment. Ed Mitchell, who has previous experience in the public and private ...
More than £2.4m has been cut from the Waste & Resources Action Programme’s budget by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. In an interview with MRW this week at the Futuresource exhibition, environment minister Lord Henley ...
East Hampshire District Council and Winchester City Council have issued a tender worth upwards of £110m. The contract will be split into two lots totalling between £110,150,000 and £195,950,000. Lot one is for household waste, recycling and garden ...
A proposed mechanical biological treatment (MBT) plant planned for Cheshire has been refused planning permission by Cheshire West and Chester Council. The plans had been submitted by waste management firm Viridor, and were designed to see all of ...
The UK waste management industry is heading for a ‘perfect storm’ of factors that will drive investment in advanced energy from waste (EfW) technologies, the advisor to the Mayor of London told Futuresource. Ecolateral director Peter ...
Commingled collections and incentivised recycling are two key areas Veolia Environmental Services will be focusing on going forward as announced in their second waste manifesto. Launched at waste management event Futuresource, the Waste Manifesto ...
Caroline Spelman – Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced a review of Government waste policy so the UK can go “faster and further” in-line with the ‘new ...
Waste policy in this country is in a “total mess” and there is “a lot for Caroline Spelman to do”, according to the head of the Conservative Environment Network, Peter Ainsworth. Speaking at Futuresource 2010 at ...
An estimated 9,000 attendees from across the UK and Europe are expected to attend the three day Futuresource waste management exhibition, which opened at ExCeL London yesterday. Organised by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) and ...
Vehicle manufacturer JCB has announced plans to provide Operator Training Course for their Wastemaster vehicle range. Developed in conjunction with the National Construction College, the week-long training programme will offer a vehicle specific ...