Category: Household WasteBy admin on Jun 25, 2008 in Household Waste, Recycling, Featured, News | 0 Comments
Lincolnshire County Council members will today be asked to back a £917m recycling scheme aimed at helping the county to meet new recycling targets over the next 28 years.
The plan includes building an ‘Energy from Waste’ unit - a combined heat and power plant to generate electricity for sale to the national grid and heat […]
By admin on May 28, 2008 in Household Waste, Recycling, Home & Garden | 2 Comments
With councils throughout the country offering different recycling services, many people have been left confused as to what types of food and drink packaging can and cannot be recycled. Many cartons for milk, drinks, soups and other liquids contain plastic and aluminium linings which make them more difficult to recycle. Most councils therefore do not collect these items […]
By admin on Dec 4, 2007 in Household Waste, Recycling, Featured, Environment, News, Home & Garden | 2 Comments
Actress Joanna Lumley has today launched a nationwide recycling campaign to highlight the massive amount of extra waste generated during the festive season, and to encourage households to take action to recycle this waste.Â
The campaign is being run by Recycle Now, and will encourage householders to recycle their old Christmas trees, compost their vegetable peelings and […]
By admin on Dec 1, 2007 in Household Waste, Business Waste, News, Business | 0 Comments
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council has chosen the defence specialist company, VT Group, as its preferred bidder to design, build, finance and operate waste management and recycling facilities in the areas under its jurisdiction as part of a programme valued at more than £700m.
VT Group will begin construction of new facilities and infrastructure in 2009, and […]
By admin on Nov 30, 2007 in Household Waste, Recycling, Environment, News, Home & Garden | 0 Comments
Waverley council in Surrey has been recognised as the best council in England for promoting recycling and reducing the amount of household waste being sent to landfill. Waverley council, which covers Farnham, Godalming and Haslemere, was recognised by Defra for having the “largest decrease in total household waste per head”.
Councillor John Sandy of Waverley council said:
“In […]
By admin on Nov 22, 2007 in Household Waste, Recycling, Featured, Environment, News, Home & Garden | 0 Comments
The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has expressed concern about the municipal waste management performance of the city. Livingstone’s announcement from last week came in reaction to figures published by Defra that showed regional recycling rates ranged from 22% in London to up tp 35% in the East Midlands and South West.
Mr Livingstone said, “These latest […]
By admin on Nov 7, 2007 in Household Waste, Recycling, Featured, Environment, News, Home & Garden | 1 Comment
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has today published figures which show that the proportion of household waste being recycled in England has broken the 30% barrier for the first time. The figures show that municipal waste being recycled or composted increased from 27.1 per cent in 2005/06 to 30.7 per cent […]
By admin on Nov 2, 2007 in Household Waste, Recycling, Featured, Environment, News, Home & Garden, Energy | 0 Comments
According to figures released by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), British households dispose of 6.7 million tonnes of food waste each year.  To help reduce this figure, a national campaign to reduce food waste in the UK has been launched. The campaign carries the slogan “Love Food Hate Waste“.Â
WRAP Chief Executive, Dr Liz Goodwin, said:
“It is […]
By admin on Nov 1, 2007 in Household Waste, Recycling, Featured, Environment, News, Home & Garden | 0 Comments
The controversial ‘pay as you throw’ tax is set to go ahead as originally planned. It had been thought that the plan had been dropped following last minute intervention from Downing Street. However there has once again been a u-turn and English councils will be allowed to pilot the ‘pay as you throw’ charges.
The UK […]
By admin on Oct 25, 2007 in Household Waste, Recycling, Featured, News, Home & Garden | 1 Comment
The long awaited announcement that councils would be allowed to impose a tax on households that do not recycle properly has been scrapped. The controversial plan for “pay as you throw” rubbish charges was expected to be unveiled by The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) later this week.Â
The proposals were shelved […]
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