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Manchester University students boost recycling
A pilot Manchester City Council scheme encouraging students to recycle their rubbish before leaving their homes has seen tonnes of waste being re-used or recycled.
Hadfield wins Greater Manchester wood waste contract
Hadfield Wood Recyclers has secured one of the UK’s largest waste wood contracts from Viridor.
Shanks closes £720m Cumbria waste contract
Waste management firm Shanks has announced the financial closure of its £720 million public private partnership waste contract with Cumbria County Council.
Planning Permission for Cumbria MBT plant
Cumbria county council has granted planning permission for its waste contractor Shanks Group to build a mechanical biological treatment facility near Carlisle as part of its £700 million waste manage
Energos gets green light to build £40m energy-from-waste plant
Energy technology firm Energos has been given the green light to build its energy-from-waste facility at Knowsley, Merseyside.
Commercial and industrial waste aims published
Tuesday 13 October 2009 Waste Management News
* Veolia loses High Court waste case
Environmental campaigners are celebrating after a High Court judge ruled that waste firm Veolia Environmental Services had to disclose commercial information about its £850 million PFI waste contract
Carbon Trust: Green power could generate £70 billion for UK economy
Embracing wind and wave power could generate up to £70 billion for the UK economy, a report released claims.
WRAP sets aside £3.5m budget for separate food waste collections
The Waste & Resources Action Programme has set aside a budget of £3.5 million to support local authorities who want to start separate food waste collections between the end of this month and 2011.
* War on waste: Anaerobic Digestion Demonstration Projects get the go-ahead from DEFRA
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has announced the five successful projects to receive government grants to create energy from organic waste, such as food.
Third sector focus away from Kerbside Collections.
Community recycling groups are operating "fewer kerbside collections" as more and more private sector waste management companies add the service to local authority contracts, members of the third sect
Hilary Benn announces third sector task force membership
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has announced the 16 members of the new Third Sector Task Force on climate change, the environment and sustainable development.
Support for transfer of disused buildings to community groups
The Government will launch a package of community investment measures including support for the transfer of disused buildings to community groups, the communities and local government secretary Hazel
MPs want community benefit clauses in public sector tenders
A group of MPs has called on the Government to issue guidance to public sector procurement officers urging them to consider the benefits to the community during the tendering process.
The Budget: verdict from the sector
Voluntary sector leaders greeted Alistair Darling's 2009 Budget with a mixture of enthusiasm and frustration.
*Green light for new EU waste legislation
The European Parliament has voted in favour of the revised Waste Framework Directive, a decision that will now see the proposals pass into European law.
Caroline Jackson MEP under fire
The Global Anti Incineration Alliance (GAIA) has accused Dr Caroline Jackson MEP, rapporteur for the Waste Framework Directive, of having a conflict of interest due to her paid post as an advisor to S
EU's 50% recycling target doesn't include green waste
Green waste will not count towards the 50% target for municipal waste as set out in the revisions to the European Waste Framework Directive, according to a senior Department for Environment, Food and
EU targets could apply for business and green waste
Business waste and green waste could be included within the overall 50% recycling target set earlier this year by the European Parliament and EU Environment Council, for EU member states to achieve by
Revised Waste Framework Directive published
The revised Waste Framework Directive has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), and must now be transposed into UK law by December 12 2010.
Defra outlines plans to tackle C&I waste
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has acknowledged that more data on commercial and industrial (C&I) waste is needed as it prepares plans on how to tackle the waste stream
Organic recyclers call for action on food waste
Food and green waste experts have said that a network of facilities to treat food waste may not be developed as quickly as hoped because of planning and other challenges.
AD plants “already undercutting IVC”
A long-standing composter has claimed that anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities are starting to under-cut the gate fees of in-vessel composting plants (IVC) and called on others not to invest in IVC te
Good news: price of aluminium cans goes up
Novelis Recycling has announced that it is to increase the price it pays for aluminium cans from 13 April.
Community RePaint support and sponsorship extended by Dulux
Community RePaint has announced that paint manufacturer Dulux has agreed to extend its support and sponsorship for the programme for two more years.