The UK’s first nuclear recycling plant to be based outside an existing atomic facility is being built in Cumbria.  The recycling plant is being built by Swedish-based company Studsvik at Lillyhall Industrial Estate near Workington.  The site is due to be completed by December and will handle approximatley 3,000 tonnes of scrap metal a year from […]

An international waste management meeting is being held in Bali, Indonesia to highlight the dangers of hazardous waste.  The five-day meeting with ministers from nearly 170 countries will focus on the impact hazardous waste has on human health and livelihoods.  They will also be considering setting up a new body on electronic and computer waste.
The conference […]

A long-running battle by sufferers of an asbestos-related disease reached a climax yesterday, with the House of Lords ruling that sufferers of pleural plaques are not entitled to compensation.  The decision removes an established right to compensation which had existed for 20 years, and could save insurers up to £1.4 billion.
Pleural plaques is a symptomless […]

If you are one of the millions of people that have old mobile phones gathering dust in drawers, there has never been a better time to recycle them and help out a good cause.  With Children In Need just around the corner, millions of households throughout the UK will receive Freepost envelopes over the coming weeks. 
The campaign […]

T-Mobile, the mobile phone service provider, has carrier out a study which suggests that the UK has a stockpile of old, unused mobile phones worth in excess of £1 billion.  Although there are many recycling options available, the British public seam to be reluctant to part with their old mobile phones, instead choosing to hoard […]

As discussed in the article What is Hazardous Waste? there are a number of different properties that can make a substance capable of being hazardous.  The list below details the different properties of hazardous waste.

H1 Explosive - Substances that are capable of exploding under the effect of flame or which are more sensitive to shocks […]

Fluorescent tubes are likely to be found in the majority of office buildings, factories, schools and hospitals throughout the UK.  Up until recently the majority of these will have ended up in general waste wheelie bins, skips and other containers.  Fluorescent tubes are however classed as hazardous waste, and have been for several years now.  […]

Any type of waste which contains properties that could make it harmful to the environment or human health may be classed as hazardous waste.  Defining hazardous waste however is not quite as simple as this.  There are however a number of different properties that can make waste hazardous, and waste can be classed as hazardous […]