Latest news - recycling and waste management
FoE: Pickles ‘seen sense’ on bins plans
Green campaigners have praised Eric Pickles for “belatedly seeing sense” in allowing councils to bid for funding for food waste collections.
Scrap merchants' complaints over competence test rejected
Industry leaders have called for “robust action” against scrap merchants who miss this month’s deadline for competence testing - despite complaints that the tests are unfair and irrelevant.
New buyer sought for failed plastic recycler
The collapse of a Welsh recycler of plastic bottles has been blamed on the recession - and a lack of material quality.
Business recycling and waste news
'Disappointing' results for RCV firm
Swedish truck maker Scania, which makes refuse collection vehicles as well as street sweepers, coaches and other specialist trucks, has blamed the Euro crisis and a strong Krona for a 29% drop in fourth-quarter profits to Skr2.13bn (£200m).
Local Authority recycling and waste news
Household recycling rate up just 0.5%
Households now recycle three times what they did 10 years ago.
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Bins fund timetable 'challenging'
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Safeguards sought over EU target fines
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Two incinerator projects move forward
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Wrap publishes guidance on plastic bottles
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Covanta gets 'royal' approval
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Shanks and Viridor battle for Welsh waste deal
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District council to fight Norfolk incinerator approval
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Incinerator engineering contract awarded
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The Big Interview from Materials Recycling Week
A different attitude brings its rewards
Last January Sean Feeney started as chief executive of troubled WEEE recycler EnvironCom. Andrea Lockerbie finds out how he has re-focused the business and taken it from loss to profit
WRAP ponders its next move
Steve Creed has been at WRAP since 2002 in a variety of business roles. Andrea Lockerbie finds out how he has seen the sector’s business challenges change in that time
Waste in the heart of the city
London could become a ground-breaking city in terms of waste management, according to chairman of the London Waste and Recycling Board. Andrea Lockerbie met him to find out more
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MRW Insight - analysis of the news
Scrap industry facing cash trade ban
The scrap metal trade may have just months to prepare for the day when trading in cash is made illegal.
Features
Waste criminals beware
The residents of Colnbrook, a large village situated three and half miles south east of Slough, said their lives had been made “hell” by their local scrap metal dealer.
Opportunity knocks for WEEE sector
2012 will be a key year as the UK begins to transpose the EU’s new WEEE recast regulations into domestic law. Dr Philip Morton, CEO of Repic, looks ahead to what is in store.
Second hand in the balance
Textiles seems to be a hot topic at present, with prices at a record high having only gone upwards for the last eight years. The words bubble and burst are on everyone’s lips, writes TRA president Ross Barry
Opinion
Incineration has to be part of our waste management strategy
Matthew Farrow, ESA’s director of policy, responds to Chris Edwards’ article on incineration in the MRW issue of 20 January.
