EXCLUSIVE: The Environment Agency has said it is “open to reviewing” its ban on the use of street-swept leaves in PAS 100 compost if there is “clear evidence that new technologies and approaches” can provide material of consistently high quality. This follows tests carried out by the Surrey Waste Partnership (SWP) last year which found […]
THE clamour is growing that closing recycling centres will lead to a plague of fly-tipping in our countryside. Cash-strapped Surrey County Council is scrutinising the future of its recycling centres, which include those at Horley Road in Earlswood, Chaldon Road in Caterham and Bond Road in Warlingham. Cutting opening hours or even closing some of
New Orleans — Education and access works. Just ask the city of Vancouver, Wash., which has seen plastic film recycling significantly rise and contamination problems at a local recycling facility drastically decline. Results of a campaign in Vancouver dubbed “Recycle Wrap/Beyond Bags” was unveiled at the Plastics Recycling 2016 conference in New Orleans. Rich McConaghy
Say hello to the “grey box,” Vancouver. The glass-only boxes are joining “blue boxes” in the city’s recycling program as a part of its contract with Multi-Materials BC. Director of Waste Management Albert Shamess says the move is needed to protect the quality of recycled materials.“The glass that is being mixed with everything else right
It took only 13 days last summer for Columbia, S.C., to deliver 40,000 recycling carts to its residents, as one of the first cities to receive grant funding from The Recycling Partnership (TRP). Without the $300,000 grant from TRP to upgrade to 95-gallon carts, the city would still be collecting its recyclables in 18-gallon bins,
Rules against Single use and throw waste are to be brought into effect in the City of VancouverIn a major step taken to reduce the single use and throw of coffee cups, plastic bags, and take-away containers that seem to clutter up the garbage dumps in and around the City of Vancouver, the Councilor has
