waste transfer station News
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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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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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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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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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Sita opens new integrated recycling plant
Sita UK has designed and built a new GBP6 million waste management facility for Derbyshire County Council. The integrated plant, which Sita will also be operating, includes a household waste recycling centre, waste transfer station, a recyclate bulking facility. An in-vessel composting facility will be opened in 2010. The facility will take 20,000 tonnes of residual waste from the High Peak and ...
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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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ABB helps revolutionize waste management
Designed and engineered by Australian company AnaeCo, the first installation of this patented technology known as DiCOM® is currently under construction at a municipal waste transfer station* in Perth, Australia’s fourth largest city. DiCOM is an automated bioconversion process that converts municipal waste into high quality compost which would otherwise be incinerated or transported to a ...
By ABB
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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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International NORM Conference
Our TRADEBE and Scotoil team will exhibiting at the International NORM Conference in Aberdeen on the 4th-5th of Nov 2015. On the 5th of Nov, Chris Macey, Commercial Manager - Incineration and Radioactives, will be delivering a presentation about understanding the treatment and disposal options for hazardous, NORM contaminated, and mixed waste. During the conference, our representatives will be ...
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EA gains injunction for illegal waste site
The Environment Agency has gained a High Court injunction against an illegal waste site at Long Meadow Farm, Brick House Lane, Surrey. The injunction prevents the importation, disposal, treatment and deposit of waste at the site. The injunction follows two prosecutions and an investigation by the EA’s Environmental Crime and Environment Management teams. The EA states that illegal waste ...
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Rentokil company fined for hazardous waste offences
A subsidiary of the international company, Rentokil, has been fined £4,000 for hazardous waste offences at a site in Devon. The case was brought by the Environment Agency. Rentokil Initial Services operates a waste transfer station at Okehampton where washroom wastes including air freshener canisters are taken for treatment prior to being sent for recovery or disposal. The canisters ...
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M&K sponsor RDF Conference in London 24th November 2016
The RDF Conference has established itself as one of the key must-attend conferences for all those operating in the RDF, SRF and Energy from Waste industries. Why attend the RDF Conference? Programme chosen by key operators in the industry, the conference is designed to focus on only the most relevant issues facing the industry right now aims to give delegates the tools they need to ...
By M&K Group
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Recovinyl: Save money and send us your waste PVC windows
‘Save money and send us your waste windows for recycling’ is Recovinyl’s message to PVC window companies, construction and waste management firms. Waste window frames can be readily recycled through the PVC industry’s recycling scheme, enabling firms to save on landfill disposal costs. It’s also the environmentally-friendly option as the material can be ...
By Axion Group
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The Orkney Islands crush their own cans
The Council of the Orkney Islands is now a proud owner of its own can crushing machinery, cutting transport costs to the UK mainland. The £50,000 can crusher, manufactured by Advanced Recycling Systems in Cornwall, will enable the Orkney Islands to recycle thousands of cans a year in a destination where the residents produce 60 tonnes of waste cans each year. The machine will sort the aluminium ...
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Sita and United Utilities compete for South Tyne and Wear contract
Two final bidders for the South Tyne and Wear waste management contract have been announced. Sita UK and United Utilities are now in the running for the 25-year deal, to develop a facility to deal with 200,000 tonnes of household waste each year and build any associated waste transfer stations. Picked by the South Tyne and Wear Waste Management Partnership - which is comprised of Gateshead, ...
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Hebden Bridge man jailed over illegal waste operation
A Hebden Bridge man who was wanted for waste crimes in Todmorden is now beginning a 25-month jail term. Mark Eric Butterworth, 51, of Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, was sentenced to a custodial term by Bradford Crown Court in May but he was not sent down because he failed to turn up at court on the day. His Honour Judge Thomas QC subsequently issued a warrant for Butterworth’s arrest, and on ...
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Contractor prosecuted and fined for serious crushing incident
A Lancashire skip hire contractor has been prosecuted and fined £15,000 following a serious vehicle crushing incident. Peter David Marquis of Bryers Farm, Lea Lane, Lea, Preston was fined £15,000 and ordered to pay £4,631.60 in costs by Preston Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act. A 17-year-old employee at Marquis’ waste transfer station at ...
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Landfill operator forced to pay GBP 1.27 million penalty for running illegal site
The Environment Agency in the South West, has worked in partnership with the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), to secure the successful confiscation of £1, 194, 638 million from a landfill operator who ran his site illegally. The seizure of assets is largest ever made following an environmental conviction in this country. Exeter Crown Court today ordered that John Craxford and his company John ...
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Solvent dispensing system breaks the barrier for laboratory NFPA flammable storage limits
Practical Applications, Inc. (PAI), a leading environmental company, has completed their proprietary solvent dispensing system startup at Cambridge, MA based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The system is designed to continuously supply solvent reagents to laboratory equipment more safely and economically than traditional methods. Traditional practice limits solvent quantities stored at the bench ...
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MSE Hiller offering sludge dewatering
MSE Hiller specialise in the supply of High performance sludge dewatering equipment to the Water and Wastewater treatment Industries. Effluents may be clarified and sludges dewatered or thickened using Hiller centrifuges at process rates of 1 to 150 m3/hr. A fleet of mobile hire units, some with lime stabilisation plants, are available to rent for temporary sludge dewatering duties at cusomers’ ...
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