Recycling
Sustainable Organic Waste Disposal is More Than Just a Diversion
In recent years waste management experts often talk about diverting organic waste from landfills. In this article, we explain why diversion is just the first step in a virtuous circle toward much more sustainable organic waste disposal. Read on to find out why sustainable organic waste disposal is more than just a matter of diversion. […]
UK Landfill Tax Regulations – Effects and the Rate for 2021
UK Landfill Tax Regulations first came into being on October 1, 1996, when the United Kingdom government imposed a landfill levy on trash disposal in landfills. The tax’s goal was, and continues to be, to encourage businesses and consumers to produce less trash, dispose of less garbage in landfills, and recover more value from trash […]
Börger FL1036 Pumps Avoid Wasted Biogas Feedstock Trips
At first sight, this headline sounds impossible, and we admit that at first, we thought how could Börger FL1036 Pumps (or anybody else’s for that matter!) avoid wasted Biogas Feedstock trips – or trips to anywhere at all! But this is perfectly possible and highly environmentally beneficial while saving the operator a lot of transport cost. The […]
How to Recycle Concrete and Save Money at the Same Time
In principle most experts agree on how to recycle concrete and save money. But, there has been a view in the construction industry that crushing concrete is really only for large-scale stationary crushers. Never has that been further from the truth than now. Crushing concrete on site with a mini crusher is very viable and […]
Why Construction Site Waste Management Needs to Become Integrated Sustainable Waste Management
It’s no longer good enough to assume that waste is everything we don’t want any more. Applying Integrated Sustainable Waste Management and good Construction Site Waste Management asks questions. Can we reduce the waste, reuse it, recycle it, and if not can we extract heat energy from it? By doing this it has been found […]
UK Circular Economy Meets Defra Minister Opposition
A fuller title for this article would be; UK Circular Economy – Meets Defra Minister Dr Thérèse Coffey’s Opposition after Government Audit Office report shows a lack of rigour in the existing implementation of the EU’s policy for meeting circular economy (recycling) targets. We could have used that, but we can imagine that only the […]
Coca-Cola Plastic Bottle Recycling Facility Visited by Coffey and Makes Recyclable Video Ad
Recent events at Coca-Cola Plastic Bottle Recycling UK, are very welcome to waste management industry opinion-formers. It is also a big vote for the further development of the circular economy. Governments can talk about issues which concern us, they can pass legislation, and the population can want a thing to happen, but nothing will change and […]
Poor Performing EU States are Failing to Meet Waste Diversion Targets
Poor performing EU member states are failing to meet waste diversion targets, a new EU Report explains. Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, Malta and Turkey are still sending more than three quarters of their municipal waste to landfill. The EU will also, soon take Slovakia to court for violating landfill rules, and failing to achieve sufficient waste diversion away from […]
Recycling Revisited – Contamination Risk from Lead Based Paint On Concrete
Ensuring The Safe Use/Disposal of Recycled Concrete When Painted With Lead Based Paint On this page we provide the Wikipedia cited content from an article titled, “Recycling Revisited” which was showing as a broken link in Wickipedia (En), and an update on current guidelines. The original article was by Charles Rathmann,ﾠand dated August 4, 2005,ﾠin the Western […]
Concrete Recycling
A “Natural” For Aggregates Producers Staff: Western Builder, 12/2/2004 Recycling concrete and asphalt rubble and the results of demolition can be a really profitable addition to an aggregates quarrying organisation’s competitive arsenal, as numerous operators in this industry have discovered in recent years. In fact, a road-portable recycling system could make back its original investment […]
Poisonous TVs and Poison PCs and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
US Report Titled – Poison PCs and Toxic TVs (Also Highly Relevant to Mobile Phone Recycling) Poison PCs and Toxic TVs, was a broken citation link in Wikipedia (Ref: 2 at the following url, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_recycling, but we found that it is available on the “WayBack Machine”, by following this link.: https://web.archive.org/web/20100707004243/http://www.svtc.org/site/DocServer/ppcttv2004.pdf?docID=301ﾠ [box type=”info”]Vistors from Wikipedia should […]
Why Recycle My Mobile Device? Smartphone Tablet etc
When people ask “why recycle my mobile device“, we reply that it is important that you do recycle all mobile phones, cell phones, tablets etc. That is because recovering the gold, silver, palladium and copper found in 50 million cell phones would reduce the demand for mining fresh metals by nearly 14 tons annually, according […]
Zero Waste and UK Recycling Progress
Landfills vary immensely, but even the most recently developed are not considered to provide a sustainable way of getting rid of rubbish. They can cause pollution, and certainly hold the potential to do so. Very few of us want to live near to them, and the methane gas produced by them is a major contributor […]
Co-mingled Waste Collection Mixed Waste and Kerbside Sorting Explained
Local authorities worldwide are striving to improve their recycling rates, including by co-mingled waste collection. The rates of recycling and waste diversion away from landfill being achieved, have been shown to be much improved by the choice of collection system, and the variety of boxes and bins provided for disposal of the municipal waste generated […]
Construction and Demolition Waste and Recycling
In tonnage terms construction and demolition waste is the UK’s largest waste stream accounting for 90 Million tonnes of material per year in England and Wales alone. To drive the recovery of demolition material and the use of recycled materials in new structures, ICE, working with London Remade and Envirocentre has developed the Demolition Protocol […]
