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Funding tackles landfill

Friday, 03 October 2008 10:31 By Mark Williams

Waste facilities in Leicestershire and the South West will see major improvements thanks to a combined £181.6 million in funding announced by Defra today.
In Leicestershire, the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project is expecting to divert 98,000 tonnes of Biodegradable Municipal Waste from landfill in 2020. In the South West the PFI project will divert 293,000 tonnes from landfill in 2020 - making an important contribution to the UK's landfill directive targets.

Plastics recycler AWS Ecoplastics gets £6m investment

Saturday, 09 August 2008 08:07 By Mark Williams

THE Sustainable Technology Fund (STF) managed by ESynergy has announced a £6m follow-on investment into plastics recycling specialist AWS Ecoplastics.

The new investment will be used to expand the company's plastic bottle processing plant, creating the world's largest facility with food grade capability able to process up to 100,000 tonnes of mixed plastic bottles annually. AWS has also appointed Tony Knox, founder and former chairman of Financial Dynamics, as its new chairman to oversee the next phase of development. The £6 million investment will be delivered in two stages through this year.

Jail sentence: a warning to fly tippers

Saturday, 09 August 2008 07:23 By Mark Williams

FLY tippers were sent a clear warning after prison sentences were handed down to two men who had operated a highly-organised criminal illegal waste dumping operation.

Patrick Joseph Anderson, 51, of Ireland, and James Gerard Kelleher, 39, from Dagenham, pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiring to unlawfully deposit controlled waste on land. Anderson was sentenced to 22 months in prison and Kelleher was sentenced to 14 months in prison at Inner London Crown Court. Both will serve half of their sentence in jail with the remainder on licenced release. The case is the culmination of one of the most intensive investigations carried out by the Environment Agency into the illegal disposal of construction and demolition waste,” said Paul Leinster, chief executive at the Environment Agency.

Ecogeek reports Sony On Top Of Greenpeace Survey inampersandnbsp;Electronics Sector

Wednesday, 09 July 2008 04:59 By Chris Innis

Greenpeace has an updated guide for those of us who base our electronics purchases on a green scale. So if you’re going to upgrade your phone, Greenpeace has some new insight for you. However, the guide also makes it clear that even the greenest of electronics STILL don’t exactly make the grade.

The greenest electronic of them all is Sony Ericsson, and it barely gets a passing grade of 5.1 out of 10. It scores top marks on the chemicals criteria by banning antimony, beryllium and phthalates...

Enviros Launches Auto-REACH Online To Help With EU Chemicals' Compliance

Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:00 By Chris Innis

Enviros (through its CAT Alliance global network) has launched Auto-REACH, a

new web based tool to assist the automotive industry in complying with European REACH Regulation. The REACH regulation for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals, requires manufacturers, importers and down stream users of chemicals to undertake a full risk assessment of any chemical they bring to the market, in orde...

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