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Verdant wins GBP 50m recycling contract
Waste management firm Verdant has secured its first joint council contract worth £50 million.It will provide an integrated recycling, refuse and street cleansing service for South Oxfordshire District Council and its neighbour, Vale of White Horse District Council. The eight-year contract is designed to help both councils meet their landfill waste and recycling improvement targets. The service ...
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IKEA raises recycling awareness
Furniture retailer IKEA has partnered with waste management firm Viridor in a bid to raise recycling awareness among its employees in order to try and achieve zero waste to landfill. The Recycle for IKEA training and awareness programme was launched on May 28 at the retailer’s distribution centre in Peterborough with a roadshow organised by Viridor to highlight how important recycling is in ...
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LWaRB allocates £28 million to London`s waste infrastructure
The London Waste and Recycling Board has allocated £28 million to help develop waste infrastructure in the Capital. The money is to be allocated within a group of 20 preferred projects. These projects will be identified by the board over the next 12 months according to which ones suit the Mayor of London’s preferred approach to waste management. The board will help develop the business plans ...
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Recofloor’s new record of 500 tonnes of waste vinyl flooring collected in a year
Recofloor has notched up a new collection record - 500 tonnes of waste vinyl flooring sent back for recycling into flooring or other products in just 12 months. The ‘milestone figure’ for 2014 was achieved during the national vinyl flooring recycling scheme’s Fifth Anniversary year and is testament to the efforts and enthusiasm of its 620-plus members throughout the UK. ...
By Axion Group
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Obtain 100% valorized material and 0% for landfill from your recycled waste
The customer, recycling municipal waste, before installing Sortech recycling plant, was paying 100 Eur/t for screened matrials deposing into the landfill. Once the customer installed Sortech engineered plant, he successfully obtained purely separated, thus valuable material: lightweight – paper, foils, light plastic (known as RDF) heavyweight – glass and plastic caps ferrous ...
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European Commission`s plans on waste are welcome but challenging, says CIWM
The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has welcomed the adoption today by the European Commission of the Communication 'Towards a circular economy: a zero waste programme for Europe' to establish a common and coherent EU framework to promote the circular economy, including legislative proposals on EU recycling and other waste-related targets. This ambitious and far-reaching set of ...
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Councils told to consider all LATS disposal options
Local councils with growing stock piles of waste paper have been advised to consider all disposal options under the flexibility of the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme (LATS). According to the Environment Agency (EA), paper could be disposed of with other biodegradable municipal wastes (BMW) such as food waste and garden waste through composting or anaerobic digestion. This method, although ...
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Tessera Carpet Tiles taken by Forbo’s Back to the Floor recycling scheme
Tessera carpet tile installation off-cuts can now be collected through Forbo’s Back to the Floor recycling scheme following significant investment in new processing equipment. This further widens the sustainable disposal options for flooring companies, enabling 100% of Tessera carpet trim to be reused in the UK. Virtually the whole flooring portfolio supplied by Forbo can now ...
By Axion Group
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Argos tackles landfill waste
High street retailer Argos is trialling a new process for the waste arriving at its distribution centres from stores, with the aim of diverting its waste from landfill. Distribution project manager Mark Jones told MRW: “The trial, focusing on Magna Park (Lutterworth, Leicestershire) distribution centre and around 170 selected Argos stores, involves minimising landfill waste by increasing ...
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Growing Waste in South-East Europe - a Source of Business Opportunities
Growing Waste in South-East Europe - a Source of Business Opportunities South-East European Conference & Exhibition Waste Management, Recycling & Environment Focus Country: Austria In Partnership with: Austrian Trade Commission in Bulgaria 28-30 March 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria Efficient waste management in South-East Europe is a huge ...
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Working with waste contractors
In October, we visited a materials recovery facility to fi nd out more about how our construction waste is diverted from landfill. MSK Waste Management and Recycling has provided waste management services on a number of our projects, including the fi tout of 201 Bishopsgate and The Broadgate Tower. MSK segregates, re-uses and recycles a wide range of waste streams at its £10 million facility in ...
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Toshiba Declares First Annual National No-Print Day on October 23
Sustainable Brands '12 - Booth #27 -- As part of its ongoing mission to get businesses to print smarter and practice sustainable consumption, Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. (http://business.toshiba.com), today announced the first annual National No-Print Day (NNPD) to be held on Oct. 23, 2012. NNPD is a nationwide campaign to encourage, educate and challenge individuals and companies to ...
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EPA to Present Waste Reduction Award to City of Newton, Kan., on Tuesday, June 25
EPA Region 7 will present an award to the City of Newton, Kan., for efforts to reduce waste and recycle materials at the city-owned Sand Creek Station Golf Course. In 2012, the City of Newton diverted approximately 24 tons of waste from landfills through waste prevention and recycling programs at the golf course. Golf course staff purchased more than three tons of recycled products and reduced ...
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Waste Management in South-East Europe - Market Trends
Waste Management in South-East Europe - market trends South-East European Conference & Exhibition Waste Management, Recycling & Environment 28-30 March 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria Each year Europe throws away 2.7 billion tonnes of waste, 98 million tonnes of which is hazardous. On average only 40% of our solid waste is re-used or recycled, the rest is going to ...
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What does waste look like? Photo, cartoon and video competition
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is launching a new competition for artistic depictions of waste in Europe. Each European generates approximately half a tonne of household waste on average. A lot of this so-called waste is actually a useful resource, but only two fifths is recycled, according to a recent analysis. WastesmART is a new competition from the EEA, inviting entries in three ...
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IFAT 2016: econ industries shows how to remediate industrial waste and contaminated soil
From May 30th until June 3rd econ industries will present its method for remediation of contaminated soil at the IFAT – World’s Leading Trade Fair for Environmental Technologies in Munich (Hall B3, stand 251). The technology favoured by the cleantech company from Starnberg is vacuum distillation. The VacuDry® technology was specifically developed in-house to completely remove ...
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Waste Management Awards Companies for Sustainable Construction
Today, Waste Management (NYSE: WM) announced the winners of the 2012 Sustainability Circle of Excellence Award, a recognition given to the top customers in the construction industry who achieved outstanding sustainability milestones during the planning and building phases of their projects. To be considered for this award, each winner used Waste Management’s innovative Diversion and ...
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Northwest federal agencies are combating climate change - reducing greenhouse gas emissions through energy, water, waste efficiency improvements
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10 recognized federal agencies in the Northwest and Alaska as Federal Green Challenge winners for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions 5 percent or more in two target areas - energy, electronics, transportation, waste, water, or purchasing. The combined efforts of 47 participants, 100s of facilities, and more than 100,000 federal ...
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Increased recycling of gypsum wallboard waste promoted in the Northeast (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)
With assistance from an EPA grant, the Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association (NEWMOA) published a “white paper” to increase the amount of gypsum wallboard waste that is recycled in the Northeast. The recently published “Policy Options White Paper Promoting Greater Recycling of Gypsum Wallboard from Construction and Demolition (C&D) Projects in the ...
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Rubicon Global and Trucost team up to provide accurate carbon emissions data from waste
Rubicon Global, the leading provider of cloud-based, sustainable waste and recycling solutions, has partnered with environmental data expert Trucost to provide its customers with accurate, accessible data on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their waste. Rubicon is revolutionizing the waste and recycling industry by creating market incentives for organizations to recycle and empowering ...
By Trucost Plc
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