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The Facilities Show by UBM is going to be working with the waste management partner this year the first time and they are hoping that this will bring the idea of waste management to their increasingly diverse and large audience. The partnership is going to be with a leading resource management and recycling company, SITA UK. The . . . → Read More: SITA UK recycle with UBM  A planning committee has recently withdrawn approval of the expansion of recycling plants which was due to create nearly 60 jobs. The plant had previously been approved but the committee went back on its decision after further consideration. The application was by Bowmans Waste and was going to be an expansion to help the plant deal . . . → Read More: Recycling plants refused permission to expand The amount of municipal and household waste that is being collected by councils in Northern Ireland has fallen by nearly 5% within a year. Alex Atwood, the Minister for the Environment, has welcomed the news that the amount of waste that was collected between July and September of 2011 had dropped compared with the same period . . . → Read More: Less household waste in Northern Ireland Carpet Recycling UK is an organisation with seven members based in the UK that are responsible for stopping carpet from going into landfill. Last year, it was estimated that these seven members of the group stopped about 6000 tonnes from entering landfill. This is a particularly impressive figure when you look at the numbers for the . . . → Read More: Carpet Recycling Merritt Plastics is a subsidiary of Eurocell and it has recently opened a new recycling facility located in Derbyshire. The recycling facility is to handle old PVC windows and it is expected that once open the facility is going to be able to recycle over 10,000 window frames every week. The director of plastic conversion for the . . . → Read More: Recycling old PVC windows Barnardos is urging people in the UK to give away any Christmas presents that they don’t want to the charity. They are saying that people should give their gifts to the charity shop so that funds that are needed by the charity can be raised through the presents’ sale. Recent estimates by the charity said that around . . . → Read More: Barnardos says recycle your Christmas presents By now, most people in the UK are used to recycling their paper and plastics on a daily basis, thus doing their bit for the environment. How many of us though consider recycling larger household items when they come to the end of their usefulness? Technological gadgets are almost out-of-date as soon as you take them . . . → Read More: Recycling laptops With a steadily increasing fund of information, suggestions and solutions in the field of environmental protection and specifically the proper disposal of waste, there is virtually no community in the UK, no matter how small or isolated, that does not have access to recycling and refuse disposal facilities. Items that are easily portable, which includes most . . . → Read More: End of Life Vehicle Directive Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has recently been urging people in the city to recycle all of their waste over the Christmas period. It is estimated that if people recycle to their full capacity London alone will save nearly £3 million. When disposing of waste, the cost of putting it in landfill is 25% higher . . . → Read More: Christmas waste recycling in London A plastic bag is not always the most suitable type of bag to use when and many businesses find that it simply may not be strong enough to hold a customer’s purchases. Plastic bags can also be quite damaging the environment so finding an alternative is a popular option for businesses looking to keep their company . . . → Read More: Plastic bags need to disappear |
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