Materials Recycling Week
4 May 2012
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100 years of waste management
Highlights and milestones from the pages of MRW -
A booming industry gets organised
Trade associations and special groups have represented the recycling and waste industry in all its guises -
Barriers to energy from waste continue to dog the UK’s industry
The incineration debate is again one of the industry’s hot topics. Not a week goes by without a local newspaper highlighting the latest “threat” presented by a waste management facility in one location or another. -
Big Interview: Charlotte Morton, ADBA
I meet Charlotte Morton, chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA), on a platform at Waterloo station on a freezing morning. We are en route to visit the Malaby Biogas AD plant in Warminster, Wiltshire, and she turns up just minutes before our train is due to depart. -
Bin smartphone app on its way
South Oxfordshire District Council is to launch a smartphone app that tells residents when their bins will be collected. -
Biomass 'could supply 16% of UK energy'
The bioenergy sector could create 50,000 jobs in the UK by 2020, according to a Government report. -
Britain's billionaire scrap business
The boss of the world’s largest metal recycling firm has made it to number 60 in the Sunday Times Rich List, becoming the UK’s first scrapyard billionaire. -
Cameron urged to include waste in energy 'revolution'
Waste firms have called for David Cameron to focus more on energy-from-waste and less on “glamorous” sources of renewable energy. -
Cory says sorry over missed Cornish collections
Cory Environmental has apologised to Cornwall residents after complaints that rubbish was being left on streets. -
Council chief joins anaerobic digestion body
A local authority waste chief has joined the Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association. -
Council faces landfill misuse claims
A council is under pressure to probe claims “hundreds of tonnes” of material destined for its materials recovery facility (MRF) were deliberately sent to landfill instead. -
Councils gear up for Compost Awareness Week
Councils across the North-west are aiming to boost food and garden waste recycling during Compost Awareness Week from 6 May. -
DS Smith agrees SCA deal
DS Smith has agreed a deal to buy the French packaging operations of SCA for €1.7bn (£1.4bn). -
Firefighters tackle blaze at Llanelli plant
Firefighters spent hours battling a blaze at a recycling plant in Llanelli, Wales, on Saturday 21 April. -
Fund managers open to offers for Green Bank cash
The fund managers charged with distributing £80m of Government funding for waste infrastructure have revealed they are still open to bids for the cash. -
Government urged to split plastic packaging targets
Plastics firms have called for a cap on the proportion of the packaging recycling target that can be met by exporting waste. -
Head to Europe for IFAT Entsorga
What can visitors expect from this year’s Ifat Entsorga? Dr Johannes F. Kirchhoff - chairman of the IFAT Entsorga advisory board and managing partner of Faun Umwelttechnik, manufacturer of RCVs – spoke to Katie Coyne and picked out the best bits for MRW readers. -
IESE framework appoints all bidders
A much-vaunted project to provide cost effective waste services to more than 100 councils has attracted a lukewarm reaction from industry with less than half of the firms invited to tender submitting bids. -
IFAT - Future trends
There are a number of debates at this year’s show aimed at some serious crystal ball gazing, one being ‘‘Environmental efforts in Mega Cities—Waste management and recycling concepts’. This is being presented by Peter Kurth, who is the president of the Federation of the German Waste, Water and Raw Materials Management Industry. -
IFAT Entsorga exhibitors line up
IFAT Entsorga is a showcase for new recycling and waste management technology - MRW looks at some of the products that will be on show this year. -
London yard expected to reopen after fire
A metal recycling yard in West London was expected to reopen today after a fire earlier this week. -
MEPs call for waste policy overhaul
Members of the European Parliament have called on the European Commission to publish plans to ban landfill as part of a shake-up of waste disposal policy. -
Ministers already drafting new laws for scrap trade
Ministers and Home Office officials have begun drafting laws to overhaul the regulation of the scrap metal trade, MRW has learned. -
MRW 100 birthday iPad competition
To celebrate 100 years of MRW we are running a competition on Twitter and LinkedIn -
Oxfordshire EfW plant milestone
A major milestone has been reached in the construction of an energy-from-waste facility in Oxfordshire. -
Paper recycling rate up
The UK paper recycling rate rose to 78% last year, according to industry figures. -
Scrap metal cash ban 'within months'
The scrap metal cash ban could be in force within six months, the Government has revealed. -
The industry has come of age
Today recycling is a mature, hi-tech industry supporting jobs and economic growth as well as environmental sustainability -
Times past in recycling: an industry remembers
MRW asked some industry stalwarts to recall how recycling and waste management have changed -
Veolia fined for burns to 'vulnerable worker'
Waste management firm Veolia Environmental Services has been fined after a worker was seriously burned at EfW incinerator in London -
Welsh AD plant contractor named
BiogenGreenfinch has been named preferred bidder to build its second food waste recycling plant in North Wales. -
Where was waste considered in the planning framework?
Barry Sheerman is MP for Huddersfield, and a Co-Chair of the Associate Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group.
