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3NRG has become the first company in the UK to acquire the necessary regulatory licences to operate an integrated mechanical heat treatment with power plant at Tythegston, Bridgend in Wales which will generate enough electricity to supply its own needs and that of approximately 4000 homes. Employing a unique combination of steam treatment of solid […]
The Waste Protocols Project, a joint Environment Agency and WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme) initiative, has launched the search for additional waste materials that can be reused and recycled, rather than needlessly dumped in landfill. The Project, set up to help industry make better use of waste materials by clarifying in Quality Protocols how […]
3NRG has become the first company in the UK to acquire the necessary regulatory licences to operate an integrated mechanical heat treatment with power plant at Tythegston, Bridgend in Wales which will generate enough electricity to supply its own needs and that of approximately 4000 homes. Employing a unique combination of steam treatment of solid […]
Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:AERT), a leading plastics recycler and leading manufacturer of green building products, today announced it will hold a conference call to discuss the company’s 2008 fourth quarter and year-end results on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. CDT/ 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. Schedule this webcast into MS-Outlook calendar (click […]
The derogation – official blind eye to the rules – from the European Commission on recycling crates and pallets has been continued. Older crates and pallets may contain higher levels of heavy metals than would be permitted in Europe’s plastics recycling regulations (Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste). But because mechanical recycling is the […]
Located in Accrington, Pennine Lancashire, Prosperity Recycling was the brainchild of a group that managing director Graham Chadwick belonged to and Graham has seen it develop into an environmental, social, not-for-private-profit business providing recycled products made out of plastic, wood and cardboard. As a result he is already responsible for reducing landfill in his local […]
PVC building profiles extruder Eurocell has made its third company acquisition in the space of a year. It has bought Merritt Plastics which is a rigid PVC recycling and extrusion company. Merritt last year invested some £500,000 at its 60,000 ft² Ilkeston, Derbyshire, site to increase its ability to handle post-consumer window frames to around […]
he reduction of construction waste is a key focus for the industry and WRAP’s Halving Waste to Landfill commitment is a voluntary framework devised to help achieve a 50% reduction in construction, demolition and excavation waste sent to landfill by 2012. This initiative is viewed as environmentally and financially critical due to increasing costs of […]