Recycling news
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.
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.
Police seize cabling, drain covers, beer barrels and cash from scrap yards
Police have arrested 10 men at four scrap dealers across Wiltshire in an anti-theft operation.
Food bids allowed for weekly collection fund
Councils will be able to bid for a slice of the £250m weekly bin collections fund if they want to develop food waste collection services as well as residual waste services, Eric Pickles has revealed.
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.
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MRF code consultation ‘in summer’
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Plastics recycler calls in administrators
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Household recycling rate up just 0.5%
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'Disappointing' results for RCV firm
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Bins fund timetable 'challenging'
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Safeguards sought over EU target fines
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Huge cut in England's landfill sites predicted
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Avondale opens MRF in central Scotland
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SWR secures London hotels deal
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WRAP hands plastic recycler boost
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May Gurney waste chief quits
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Bins cash details expected amid Tory rebellion
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Bin brother is watching London waste crews
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Viridor secures NHS Lanarkshire deal
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Two incinerator projects move forward
