packaging waste regulation News
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£30,000 fine for major shoe firm
A major footwear firm has been ordered to pay more than £30,000 in fines and costs at Coalville Magistrates’ Court after failing to comply with packaging regulations. Brantano UK is a shoe retailer that has 147 stores in the UK. The company is based at Interlink Business Park, Bardon, in Coalville. The firm pleaded guilty to 15 charges related to not registering with the Environment Agency and ...
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Are you Aware of Your Packaging Waste Responsibilities?
Are businesses aware that packaging producers must comply with the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997? Many businesses don’t realise that they qualify as a producer and could be exposing themselves to hefty penalties for non-compliance. Producers can be packaging manufacturers, importers of packaged goods or even sellers of packaged goods. If your ...
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EA fines storage solution firm £25k
Storage solution firm Rapid Racking has received a £25,000 fine after failing to comply with the Producer Responsibility Obligations Regulations 2007. The Environment Agency took the Gloucestershire-based firm to court after it failed to meet its requirement to recover and recycle packaging waste between 2004 and 2006 and after failing to register with the EA. Rapid Racking specialises in the ...
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SEPA cuts red tape in waste regulations
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has announced further steps to reduce bureaucracy, while still ensuring high levels of environmental protection. Changes have been put in place to how SEPA enforces three sets of regulations; the Producer Responsibility (Packaging Waste) Regulations, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations (WEEE) and the Trans Frontier Shipment ...
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Packaging non-compliance payments top £1m.
Figures published on March 31st indicate that a total of twenty businesses had not registered with a compliance scheme as required under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007. A record payment of £414,960 was made by organic baby food producer HiPP Uk Limited for failure to comply with the Producer Responsibility Obligations with the largest payment ...
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Riverside celebrates 20-year milestone
The past twenty years have been quite a whirlwind for the waste and recycling industry, with recessions, regulations, landfill tax hikes and technological innovations just some of the notable talking points. But the last two decades have also seen the growth of baler specialist Riverside Waste Machinery. The company – originally founded by Chris Oldfield in 1997 – is now run by his ...
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UK paper recycling increases 7.5%
The UK Confederation of Paper Industry (CPI) has analysed paper mill raw material usage and HM Revenue and Customs (HM R&C) trade data which shows solid progress through 2007 in the recovery of used paper products from the waste stream for recycling. The data suggests that just over 8.7 million tonnes of recovered paper was either used in the UK (46%, 4.05 million tonnes), or exported for ...
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New Online Tool Keeps Small Businesses Up-To-Date With Environmental Legislation
Small businesses can now keep abreast of changes to environmental legislation thanks to a new registration tool from NetRegs - www.netregs.gov.uk - the free website offering practical, sector-specific advice to small businesses on their environmental obligations. The new tool is launched as the latest 2005 SME-nvironment survey reveals that a worryingly high 86% of small businesses could ...
By NetRegs
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US and UK authorities clamp down on packaging waste
With Wal-Mart mandating reductions in packaging, the cost of fuel for freight shipments increasing every day, and everyone realizing that the “other” petroleum product—plastic—should be used more efficiently too, the past year has brought a sudden interest not only in product ingredients, but in how products are packaged. At a very basic level, the more packaging there is on a product, the ...
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Call for waste firms to `take notice` of new environmetal law
Small- to medium-sized businesses in the waste industry will not take notice of a new regime of strict environmental civil penalties until a prosecution occurs, according to a legal expert. From today (April 6), the Environment Agency will become one of the first regulators to be given greater flexibility to enforce environmental law, such as the Hazardous Waste, Packaging and Transfrontier ...
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Companies `completely under-prepared` for new environmental fines
Thousands of small to medium-sized businesses in the waste industry are completely under prepared for a new regime of strict environmental civil penalties that come into force on 6 April, warned a legal expert. The Environment Agency will become one of the first regulators to be given greater flexibility to enforce environmental law, such as the Hazardous Waste, Packaging and Transfrontier ...
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From rubbish to resource
Environment Agency unveils new strategy for tackling tomorrow’s waste Helping businesses use resources more efficiently and divert more waste from landfill were today unveiled as top targets for the Environment Agency over the next five years. Launched on day two of the Agency’s annual conference, the new corporate strategy Creating A Better Place 2010-2015 also outlines the key waste-related ...
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Waste & Recycling News Launches Corporate Recycling & Waste Conference – Partners with Republic Services Inc.
AKRON, Ohio - Waste & Recycling News, the leading news source for environmental management, is launching a new world-class business conference. The 2011 Corporate Recycling & Waste Conference (CRWC) is scheduled for Sept. 27-29, 2011, at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Fla. The conference focuses on how business executives can advance their organizations’ sustainability issues ...
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The Keys to Waste Management 2023
“The recycling sector has clear reasons to feel optimistic in this 2023” could be the phrase that defines the beginning of this new year. At a time when most industries are navigating uncertainty, the recycling sector is shoring up its pillars and, thanks to technological innovation, is preparing for a record year.?But why this optimism? This is what waste management will look like ...
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Effective EU waste management can contribute to 2020 CO2 reduction target
A new report by Prognos states that by introducing an ambitious waste policy in EU the waste sector is able to contribute with 16-27% of the total 20% emission reduction target, to be meet by the EU countries under the Kyoto agreement. Mrs. Birnstegel from Prognos stated at the Press Conference 27 May 2008, that politically there is a need to focus on, diverting biodegradable waste from ...
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