Day: 1 August 2000

Initiative on show at Paignton parade

The waste industry took the opportunity at the annual IWM event presented at Torbay to reveal details of a major move to get its message across to the country at large. The National Waste Awareness Initiative (NWAI), which is backed by a steering group of around 50 public, private and voluntary groups in the sector, held a breakfast meeting during the conference under the auspices of IWM, to promote its aims and objects.

Pollution failures mar improving record

Environmental regulation of industry is cutting thousands of tonnes in emissions of substances that damage health and the environment, the Environment Agency reports, but continuing pollution failures by businesses across England and Wales are marring environmental gains it says.

ESA aims to improve operations through training

The Environmental Services Association (ESA) has as one of its key objectives the improvement of operational standards by providing a comprehensive, practical and value-for-money range of training courses covering legal and technical issues.

Major group sets up training college

In an innovative move, Vivendi Environment, parent group of waste management services contractor, Onyx Environmental Group, and train operator, Connex, has set up a college to provide training for the staff of the UK companies.

Industry trains its sights on the future

The established professional bodies and industrial associations in the waste sector provide a constantly developing range of training and educational services to respond to the increasing pace of change in this area.

Advances in education add professional edge

A continuing drive to improve educational and training standards across the environmental and waste sectors reflects the demand for better qualified personnel throughout the environmental disciplines, through waste management and in the critical area of street and on-site operations. In this special feature LAWE reports on recent developments in the institutions and industry bodies which are giving all those involved in the environmental and waste areas an increasingly professional edge through training.

Industry raises alarm over packaging recovery targets

The argument between commercial interests affected by the Packaging Waste Regulations and the Government over where target levels should be set, received renewed impetus last month with a call by leading compliance group, Valpak, for no increase in UK recovery targets next year.

Survey tracks trends in recycling

The latest in LAWE's series of Tracking Trends supplements examines the key issues of waste minimisation and recycling raised by the publication of the Government's Waste Strategy for England and Wales. The move to meet tough waste reduction and recycling targets set by Environment Minister Michael Meacher against a background of EU Directives was given a boost by funds allocated in the recent Comprehensive Spending Review. This special section includes an extensive Preview of the forthcoming Recycling Exhibition at the NEC, beginning on page 18.

Competency wheels turning

EMMTAP, the Emission Monitoring Model Training and Accreditation Project, is funded by the EU Leonardo da Vinci scheme and managed by CRE Group. John Sadler, CRE, reports.

Metering out?

Elaine Kearney poses the questions that metering experts at the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL) in East Kilbride have been considering recently.

Ebb and flow

For many years, flow measurement was, technologically, the poor relation of instrumentation. Even by the mid 1980s the majority of flowmeters sold were still differential pressure flowmeters, practically developed in the early part of the century. Terry Cousins, SGS, charts the recent surge.

A drain on resources

Effluent, grey water, dirty water - call it anything you like, except "waste water". According to Roger Clark, process and engineering manager at Waterlink, extending or replacing your effluent plant with one or more of an increasing number of treatment options could dramatically reduce your water bills, and minimise environmental risk.

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