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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.
MRF code consultation ‘in summer’
Defra will consult on a code of practice for materials recovery facilities (MRFs) in the summer, if ministers agree to make the code mandatory, Lord Taylor has said.
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Plastics recycler calls in administrators
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Household recycling rate up just 0.5%
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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
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Progress on Teesside steel plant
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The £50m WEEE gap
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Pair shortlisted for Milton Keynes waste job
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Jail threat for illegal tyre exporter
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Welsh waste thieves hunted
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Economic crisis blamed for slow steel growth
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More controls needed to support electricals reuse
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Metal recycler named in top 100 sustainable firms
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Expansion for CSG
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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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EA crime chief targets 300 site shutdowns
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Meeting sparks hopes of MRF code decision
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Warning of enviro-risks if CRT firm can't be saved
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Valpak directors complete buy-out
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Landmark EfW development sold
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Cash to be banned from scrap trade
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Urgent reform of scrap trade required, say MPs
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OCS buys parts of Fountains from administrators
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Incinerator engineering contract awarded
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Recycling industry now worth £23bn in UK
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Cabinet discusses banning cash trade for scrap
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Firm fined for waste offences next to beauty spot
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Sita on track to recycle train waste
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ESA calls for increased subsidies for incinerators
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CRT firm in talks to prevent closure
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Incinerator study gets green light
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EA investigates orchestrated bag dumping
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Reuse firm faces closure
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Halve food waste by 2025, say MEPs
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SAICA opens new mill
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Metal theft bill blocked
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Dorset councils agree joint waste service
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Axing HWRCs a concern, agrees minister
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Landfill firm fined
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Pilot Scottish fund for collaborative recycling
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Scrap law change backed by environmental health group
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Valpak deal ‘ludicrous’, says rival
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Southwark agrees route for district heating system
