waste transfer News
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Defra to Amend Waste Transfer Note System
Plans to allow greater flexibility over the types of documents that can be used as an alternative to Waste Transfer Notes (WTNs) has been confirmed by Defra, despite deep divisions among councils and businesses over the issue. This decision comes after a six week consultation which was launched in December 2013 under the governments Red Tape Challenge, which proposed amending regulations to ...
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Environment Agency Acts on Illegal Tyre Operation
GLM Technical Ltd, of Wardley, Gateshead, and Gareth Hunter, 41, of Jarvis Drive, Crawcrook, pleaded guilty to running an illegal waste site, illegally depositing tyres at other sites, and making inaccurate statements in waste transfer notes. They appeared at South Shields Magistrates’ Court at the end of last month, where the company was fined £4,615 and ordered to pay costs and a ...
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Defra Opens Consultation On Alternatives To Waste Transfer Notes
Defra is seeking views on providing greater flexibility around the use of Waste Transfer Notes and minor amendments to waste carrier legislation in England and Wales. The consolation is a part of the Government’s Red Tape Challenge, where the Government aims to cut excessive regulations and bureaucracy that it says is hurting business and doing damage to the economy. The Red Tape ...
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edoc - The New Paperless Way of Recording Waste Transfer
edoc, launched in January, is an innovative new online system that provides businesses with a quick and easy way to record their transfers of commercial and industrial waste. Supported by CIWM, over 1300 businesses across the UK have already registered to use the system www.edoconline.co.uk [http://www.edoconline.co.uk] , recognising the cost and time saving benefits moving over to edoc can bring ...
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Advanced Disposal acquires B&W Waste
Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. (Jacksonville, FL) has expanded its presence in the state of Georgia through its purchase of the assets of B&W Waste, a solid waste management company serving the municipality of Madison. The assets acquires include a waste transfer station in Madison, contracts with 1,200 commercial, roll-off, and resident customers, 19 trucks, and 780 containers. Advanced ...
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A Free Online System is launched to streamline Waste Reporting Processes
The initiative was launched by a partnership of waste industry and government bodies led by the Environment Agency and is expected to save organisations across the UK a total of c£8m a year by providing a new electronic alternative to burdensome paperwork. All UK businesses are required to produce waste transfer notes, which describe the nature of their waste and who they pass it on to. ...
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Belvedere waste transfer jetty contract won
The contract to design a 270m long waste transfer jetty for the Belvedere energy-from-waste plant in East London has been won by Mott MacDonald. Construction company Costain, which was sub-contracted to build the facility by VonRollInova last year, has appointed Mott MacDonald to carry out marine works. The plan is that containerised waste will be brought to the site at Halfway Reach on the ...
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Waste producer responsibility
Waste (for the purposes of soils/concrete/tar-bound material) is anything produced on site that you wish to get rid of/ remove. Section 34 of the EPA90 act imposes a 'Duty of Care' on those concerned with controlled waste. “Duty of Care” means that a company producing waste is responsible for its proper and safe disposal, even if it has been passed to another party. Breach of the ...
By HWM Group
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Two UK directors arrested for illegal waste stockpile
Officers from Environment Agency Wales, assisted by Gwent Police, arrested two directors and the previous company secretary of a Newport based company as part of a major investigation into the illegal handling of waste. Those arrested have been taken to Maindee police station in Newport and are being questioned by Agency officers about environmental offences. The investigation relates to ...
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China’s waste transfer is managed by new technology
China’s strong economic growth increases the overall volume of waste. Major cities have taken significant steps in the field of circular economy since summer 2019. Waste recycling has been enhanced through legislative changes and regulations demanding waste segregation into a minimum of four (4) waste types. High and dense urban construction generates large quantities of waste every day. ...
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Inquest into bin truck death begins
An inquest has begun into the death of a teacher who was found among rubbish at a Brighton waste transfer site in July last year. It is thought Scott Williams, a maths teacher from New Zealand, climbed inside a wheelie bin to shelter from the rain. The bin was then picked up by a dust cart and dumped at a Sussex landfill site owned by Sussex Waste Recycling later that morning. A post mortem ...
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12-month imprisonment given to illegal waste tyre trader
A 12-month prison sentence has been given to a man who illegally stored tyres, among other waste, at his home and workplace. Mark Smith from Malvern unlawfully stored waste at the Blackmore Park Industrial Estate and his home in Guarlford. Trading under his company Mark Smith Tyres, Smith was advised to get a waste management licence by the Environment Agency (EA) in 2003. He failed to apply ...
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Tewkesbury awards £168m recycling contract
Tewkesbury Borough Council has awarded a £1.68m recycling contract to Pure Recycling. The agreement will see Pure Recycling – which today announced it has been acquired by construction firm Kier – processing commingled dry recyclables from 36,000 households. The firm will take paper, card, cardboard, aluminium and steel cans, mixed glass and plastic bottles. Additionally, the ...
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CIWM suggests making edoc mandatory
Six months on from the launch of edoc - the innovative new online system for recording waste transfers - the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has suggested that the UK government seriously considers making edoc mandatory. Developed by the Environment Agency in partnership with the waste sector and government bodies from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, edoc offers a quick, ...
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Defra collects feedback on easing WTN regulations
Feedback is being collected by Defra with regard to easing the Waste Transfer Note (WTN) system for businesses that do not make use of electronic reporting. It is estimated by the department that up to 80% of WTNs will be issued through the Electronic Duty of Care (edoc) system after it is introduced in January 2014. The department suggests that a written description of waste on documentation ...
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Kent man fined for running waste site without permit
The operator of an illegal waste site in Aldington has been made to pay £11,500 by Canterbury Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to running the site without an Environmental Permit. The charges were brought against Mr Richard Butler, operator of the site at Woodleas Farm, Goldwell Lane, Aldington, after an Environment Agency investigation that discovered he was running the ...
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Innovative partnership provides new waste management parks
Three councils are joining together to create an innovative new partnership for two waste management parks. Bracknell Forest, Reading and Wokingham Council joined together in the re3 Partnership, and are now working with Waste Recycling Group on a £610 million private finance initiative to improve waste management and recycling facilities across the three boroughs. Results of the partnership ...
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£14,000 fine for company operating illegal waste facility
Today, 22 November 2013, Easy Skip Hire Ltd of Doncaster was sentenced at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court to one charge relating to operating a waste transfer facility without an Environmental Permit. The company pleaded guilty at an earlier court hearing. The company was fined £14,000, ordered to pay £3,131.87 in costs, along with a £120 victim surcharge. The charge was ...
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Equipment installation begins at Greenstar Atlas MRF
Greenstar UK has begun installing equipment at its Atlas plant, which is to be London’s ‘largest’ materials recycling facility. Since construction of the building finished at the 250,000 tonnes per year facility, work has begun on installing over 1,600 tonnes of steelwork and processing equipment. A waste transfer station is also located onsite to process a further 250,000 tonnes of waste ...
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Cory wins £80M North Somerset waste contract
Cory Environmental has been awarded a possible 14-year contract worth £80 million to treat and dispose of North Somerset’s waste. Initially the agreement is for a seven-year contract, which has the option of a seven-year extension and commences in March 2010. Cory will be responsible for managing an existing waste transfer station, treating food waste and green waste and disposing of residual ...
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