Day: 1 June 2004

Viridor Waste builds major new plant at Beddington

The first phase of a massive new composting plant is currently being built at the Beddington, Farmlands Landfill Site, near Croydon in Surrey, for Viridor Waste (Thames) Ltd. Steve Last, Technical Manager, and Martin Carville, Principal Civil Engineer and Technical Manager, Enviros Consulting report of this major scheme

Working together to hit recycling targets

It often feels that industry and local authorities could be more in tune when it comes to improving UK recycling rates for packaging. John May, manager, Corus Steel Packaging Recycling (CSPR) writes on how this can happen.

Maximising minimisation: taking the waste out of the packaging supply chain

As recent European directives have instructed, the UK must reduce the actual amount of packaging that is used, both in the end product and for transit purposes. Graham Margetson, director of Foresite Systems, one of the country’s experts on compliance with the Packaging Waste Regulations, here considers the wider question of packaging minimisation.

Complying with EU Law on Waste: Can the Planning Process Deliver?

Wayne Laramee is Head of Parliamentary Affairs at the Environmental Services Association. Here he explains how the Government must seize the upcoming opportunity to put in place a planning framework to deliver the new waste management facilities the UK needs.

Writing audit nonconformances

John Marsden, MD of Marsden International (UK), discusses the problems facing auditors when writing ISO 14001 nonconformances, providing an insight into the process

The next generation

The ISO Technical Committee 207 has released the final draft of the revised ISO 14001 standard. Amy Pettit and John Pepper of DNV looks at the impact on business

Miles ahead

For the second year running the Go-Ahead Group has won the ILT's Environmental Improvement Award. Peter McCrum finds out why

The next generation

The ISO Technical Committee 207 has released the final draft of the revised ISO 14001 standard. Amy Pettit and John Pepper of DNV looks at the impact on business

Green therapy

There's a changing culture among British retailers. They've been persuaded to take environmental issues seriously and clean up their act. Peter McCrum finds out more

Green help for small businesses

We need to adopt a partnership approach to help smaller businesses improve their environmental practices, says Richard Martin, project manager for NetRegs

A conflicting conundrum

Nick Marshall, global product manager at BSI Management Systems, explains the problems of verifying emissions for the upcoming European trading scheme

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