Are You Paying Too Much For Packaging? We often hear about how important renewables and recycling is for the environment. We know this often comes with drawbacks for business; either coming at a cost or causing a loss in quality or efficiency. As a result, these issues create important business decisions as well as environmental […]
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Is There Plastic in our Water?
Is There Plastic In Our Water? Increasingly, we hear about the importance of embracing recycling, renewables & eco-friendly practices with plastics being a large problem-area on which to focus. Plastics used in both domestic and industrial domains alike, are often viewed as a one-use, disposable materials given little further thought. Plastics are however, designed to […]
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Plastics, Pollution, Evolution
Plastics, Pollution, Evolution The Economist guides us, the BBC encourages us but are you willing to go to any lengths? This is a call to follow Trump’s example and use our trade to our advantage, or rather the advantage of the world. The Economist highlights the quantitative issue of plastic recycling. It finishes by rightly […]
Trump, Tariffs and Testosterone
Trump, Tariffs and Testosterone Is it tariff trade war time? Is business simply always another battle? if it is battle after battle who will win the war? Trump has tapped into a whole range of areas that many people feel have left them undervalued at best, or in many cases neglected. It seems our nature […]
Recycling is a complicated business
Recycling is a complicated business. Recycling is a complicated business. Oxo biodegradable plastics, China and humble plastic drum, IBC and 25 litre plastic container. You only need to take a quick look at the recent MRW to see how complex recycling is. The issue also highlights the need for continuous supplier due diligence, to avoid […]
Who will help the enforcers?
Who will help the enforcers? It’s not all about offshore accounts. Who will help the enforcers? It’s not all about offshore accounts. Payment by cash for scrap metal and ignoring the spirit and the letter of waste licensing law. How local authority, police, HMRC and the Environment Agency are trapped in budget cutting inaction. Recycling […]
Increase in recycling stocks increase in Insurance
INCREASE IN RECYCLING STOCKS INCREASE IN INSURANCE Increase in recycling stocks increase in insurance may occur. As recyclable material stops moving to China, there will be increased pressure to hold stocks at recovery and transfer facilities. The track record of fires in the industry has increased Environment Agency vigilance on stocks occurring outside licensed conditions. […]
Increase in waste crime | RWM Exhibition | PRDServices
Increase in waste time ‘Fresh from the show LAST week – RWM Exhibition’ So, if low value raw materials such as mixed rigid plastics and lightly contaminated materials find their way into the landfill waste stream the chances of contractors comitting waste crime and sustaining the landfill tax charges are limited. As Emma Howard Boyd, […]
Are you secure from waste crime?
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] All responsible companies understand their Duty-of-Care with respect to waste management. This involves ensuring that the company removing the waste is registered with the Environment Agency, and that the site receiving the waste has the appropriate permit. Yet prosecutions recently have shown how easy it is to fail this basic test. For example, […]