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Conservative MP calls for BIS to assume recycling policy responsibility

Laura Sandys MP, the chair of the Conservatives’ 2020 Productivity and Efficiency Commission, has suggested that responsibility for policies on UK recycling, waste and resource efficiency should be passed to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), many of Collect and Recycle’s (http://www.collectandrecycle.com) business clients should be interested to...

Defra should support industry, says waste sector

A few weeks ago here at Collect and Recycle (http://www.collectandrecycle.com), we drew attention to complaints from the waste collections industry about the recent letter sent to them by resource minister Dan Rogerson, suggesting that his department would be scaling down waste activities. Now, waste sector trade associations have come together...