The Waste Industry Safety and Health forum (WISH) has published a detailed plan, consisting of five steps with the aim of enhancing health and safety in the waste industry and reducing the sector’s accident rates. The news will certainly interest many of those that take advantage of Collect and Recycle...
The Food Waste to Energy Recycling Initiative
The amount of food waste thrown away in the UK is truly staggering, according to WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) in this country we discard more than 7.2 million tonnes of food and drink every year, with the same amount again being generated by the food processing industry....
Producers request that ‘flawed’ WEEE system is changed
With the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) having recently launched its consultation into the regulations around how electronic goods producers fund the recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), several leading electronics producers have called for widespread changes to be made to the “excessively costly” system for...
Minister stresses importance of ‘getting WEEE system right’
Many of those involved in WEEE recycling had an invaluable opportunity to listen to a Government minister on 1st May, on the subject of new regulations surrounding the recycling of waste electricals. Clients of Collect and Recycle (http://www.collectandrecycle.com) may be interested to read the comments of Michael Fallon, minister at...
Labour policy review calls for greater recycling ambition
The Labour Party has said that more challenging recycling targets should be set, as is already the case in Scotland and Wales, and that economic security can be aided by an advanced waste strategy that creates manufacturing jobs in addition to laying the foundations for sustainable growth. The news will...
BIS consults on changes to WEEE compliance system
Yesterday (April 17), in news that will interest many of the IT recycling clients of Collect and Recycle (https://www.collectandrecycle.com), the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) launched its eagerly awaited public consultation on how the recast waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) directive is to be implemented by the...
Defra strikes back over Daily Mail ‘recycling con’ story
Those recycling old computers and other materials with Collect and Recycle (https://www.collectandrecycle.com) may be interested to read of a publicity storm that has brewed over the supposed illegal export and sending to landfill of millions of tonnes of waste, as reported recently by the Daily Mail. The claims have now...
WEEE collection rates rise, despite tonnage falling
There was a fractional rise in the rate of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) collection in the UK last year, assisted by a decline in the tonnage of new products being placed onto the market, report the experts in electrical waste recycling at Collect and Recycle. The provisional figures,...
Scrap Metal Dealers Bill is now law
Regular readers of the blog of electrical waste recycling firm Collect and Recycle (https://www.collectandrecycle.com) will know that we have been closely following the movements of the Scrap Metal Dealers Bill, from its introduction as a Private Members’ Bill by Conservative backbench MP Richard Ottaway to its recent successful passage through...
Scrap Metal Dealers Bill passes successfully through Parliament
Proposed legislation for the licensing of scrap metal dealers by local authorities, which also closes a loophole that means that itinerant scrap metal traders can continue trading with cash, has received final approval in Parliament. The news will interest many clients of Collect and Recycle’s (https://www.collectandrecycle.com) scrap metal recycling services....