Day: 5 April 2012

Woking’s WEEE collection switches on residents

Woking Borough Council's new kerbside collection service for small WEEE items has proven an instant hit with residents. Nick Warburton saw it in action

HSE drive targets the near miss

The waste and recycling industry's record on health and safety is poor. Nick Warburton asks the HSE's head of operational strategy what is being done to improve standards

Exclusive: Lush set to build straw bale manufacturing plant

Lush plans to build a manufacturing facility out of straw bales powered by landfill gas in what could be a world first, the company claims.

Midcounties Co-op bags £100,000 in waste savings

The Midcounties Co-operative has saved over £100,000 in waste disposal costs over the past 12 months due to an aggressive recycling drive.

Why it’s not the last straw for Lush

Lush has embarked on its first straw bale construction project in a bid to slash carbon emissions in the built environment, as Maxine Perella finds out

Wind energy to create 80,000 jobs by 2020

Trade body RenewableUK yesterday launched its UK Wind Energy Charter, outlining three principles to ensure the security of the industry and its economic contribution going forward.

SITA secures biomass deal for Scottish CHP plant

SITA UK has won a long-term contract to supply recovered wood to RWE npower renewables' £200m biomass plant in Scotland.

Bids invited for clean-tech EfW demonstrator project

Partners are being sought for a £13m energy-from-waste demonstrator plant capable of generating energy at efficiencies higher than previously produced.

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