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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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Sita plans to build AD facility in Surrey
Waste management firm Sita UK is proposing to redevelop its waste management site at Benedict Wharf, Mitcham, Surrey. Sita plans to redevelop the site into a modern eco-park. A planning application was submitted in October 2008. The proposed redevelopment includes:* The development of an anaerobic digestion facility (AD) and in-vessel composting facility (IVC), which will process up to 100,000 ...
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Waste industry blamed for lack of Olympic waste infrastrucuture initiatives
The waste industry has failed to come up with a “credible” scheme to meet the commitment to make the Olympics a catalyst for new waste management infrastructure in East London. Olympic sustainability watchdog the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 annual review Raising the bar: Can London 2012 set new standards for sustainability? states the target was “always expected to ...
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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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Waste management industry responds to new Government
Figures in the waste management industry are “optimistic” about the impact of a Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government on the recycling agenda, but have warned there is still much to do. The coalition government will mean the inevitable combination of key Conservative and Liberal Democrat waste management pledges, proposed in their recent election manifestos. In their ...
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Preferred energy-from-waste sites revealed for Merseyside
Two potential sites for large energy-from-waste facilities have been identified by the Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority. The MWDA revealed its two preferred EfW locations in a public consultation response. One site is close to the junction of the A580 and M57, inside Liverpool Council boundaries on the East Lancs road. The other is near the junction of the M57 and the M62 within Knowsley ...
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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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Final bidders selected for Merseyside waste diposal authority PFI contract
The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority has selected the final two bidders for its multi-million pound private finance initiative contract. The two bidders in the running for the 25-year contract are waste companies Sita UK and Covanta. Two other bidders which include Resource from Waste Alliance (made up of a consortium of property management firm Land Securities and Trillium) and Mersey Green ...
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Sita submits planning application for Severnside EfW plant
Waste management firm Sita UK has submitted a planning application for a new £200 million energy-from-waste plant to be built on a brownfield site at Severnside, South Gloucestershire. The proposed facility, which could process up to 400,000 tonnes of non-recycled commercial and industrial waste per year, is expected to generate enough electricity to power 50,000 homes – equivalent to around ...
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High tech waste vacuum technology, a first for the UK
For the first time in the UK rubbish can be transported through a system of underground vacuum pipes. The Envac system, in a housing development next to Wembley stadium in west London, does away with kerbside collections and goes underground. Envac is a Swedish-based firm that makes underground vacuum waste collection systems. Sweden has been using this system for 30 years and the system is ...
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Flat recycling to go underground with new Finnish waste system
A Finnish underground waste system by vacuum technology firm MariMatic is set to rival the Swedish Envac system and help encourage residents to recycle from flats. MariMatic may look to the UK to develop the Metro Taifun system that does away with kerbside collections and collects municipal waste using an underground network of vacuum pipes. The Envac system was recently installed at developer ...
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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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Welsh planning policy places new emphasis on renewables
The Welsh Assembly Government has put plans to increase renewable use and reduce construction waste in local planning decisions at the heart of its new planning policy. The new Planning Policy Wales document updated the country’s current ‘strategic policy framework’ – an outline which sets the direction of local authority development plans. The revised framework laid out a number of ‘key policy ...
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Skip hire bosses bite the waste mountain dust
The bosses of a Hartlepool-based skip hire firm Easy Skips (NE) have been ordered to hand over GBP234,393 after admitting waste offences. Easy Skips directors’ Andrew Benson and Kevin Brough pleaded guilty at Teeside Crown Court to charges of controlled waste offences. The firm’s assets will have to be confiscated in order for them to pay the GBP234,393. The confiscation under the Proceeds of ...
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UK will fail to meet EU landfill targets, new survey suggests
More than half the UK waste sector believes that the UK will not meet its European Union Landfill Directive 2013 target, a new survey suggests. Law firm Norton Rose published the results of its 2009 Future of Waste PFI survey, three years since the firm conducted its inaugural survey in the UK. It interviewed 60 stakeholders (comprised of waste management companies, technical advisers, local ...
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Call to move waste management into a `virtuous circle`
The UK must develop an integrated policy framework that locks conservation, production and waste management into a “virtuous circle” to work towards a resource efficiency economy, according to an environmental lobby group. The Aldersgate Group published a report entitled Beyond carbon: Towards a resource efficient future (February 1). Resource efficiency is the “systematic reduction in the ...
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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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Plant and waste recycling show expects more than 4,000 visitors
A breakaway exhibition to rival the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management’s and Environmental Services Association’s Futuresource is expecting more than 4,000 visitors this year. Last year, a group of disgruntled plant hire vehicle and waste disposal exhibitors decided to set up a show called the Plant and Waste Recycling show which will start from 15-17 June at Paignton, Torbay. They did ...
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Barge-transported construction waste reduced carbon footprint by 75%
A development that is using river barges to remove construction waste for recycling has estimated this has reduced its carbon footprint by 75 per cent. The Chambers Wharf development in Southwark is using Green Barge Company barges to transport more than 50,000 tonnes of crushed concrete and steel. This will be recycled at the Tilbury docks recycling depot, in the Thurrock Thames Gateway ...
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£800,000 a year bill to move waste
The closure of a waste transfer station will leave Exeter City Council facing a bill of £800,000 a year to move its residual waste to another site. The Exeter Transfer Station at Marsh Barton will be shut on Monday evening to make way for a new energy from waste facility, provided by Viridor, which is expected to take around three years to construct. In the interim, Exeter City Council which is ...
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