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RWM is the UK's longest running, best attended and biggest annual event for the recycling and waste management industry. The exhibition is 80% sold out and the earlybird deadline of 31st March 2010 is fast approaching, reserve your space now to take advantage of the lower rate - contact Drew Murphy on 020 7728 4517 quoting priority code EWeb1.
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Guildford Borough Council ‘go live’ with Uniclass Waste Management software
ROCC have supplied Guildford Borough Council a web-based Waste Management software Solution. The hub of the solution is a citizen-facing contact centre which allows citizens to raise any issues they h... |
Industry News
Mineralogical firm calls Government tax on waste oil "bizarre" Mineralogical firm calls Government tax on waste oil "bizarre", Tiffany Holland, 2010-03-17 00:00:00.0; A minerals manufacturer has called the current tax on the use of waste oil "bizarre" and believes the Government is actually incentivising the use of virgin fossil fuels rather than re-use fuels. The firm, which does not want to be named, asserts that it cannot use fuel derived from waste oil because it is not economically viable since the Government started taxing it in November 2008. Having recently invested £1.1 million making its plant compliant to burn the fuel under the waste incineration directive (WID), the firm is now using natural gas to power its plant as a cheaper alternative. , Only two sites now in the running for South West Devon Waste Partnership EfW facility Only two sites now in the running for South West Devon Waste Partnership EfW facility, Ruth Faulkner, 2010-03-17 00:00:00.0; Plans to build an incinerator at Ernesettle in Plymouth have been dropped by waste management firm MVV Umwelt. The site at Ernesettle was one of three in the running under the South West Devon Waste Partnerships plan to deal with waste across South Devon for the next 25 years. , Richer countries produce richer waste Richer countries produce richer waste, Tiffany Holland, 2010-03-17 00:00:00.0; The more affluent a country is, the more waste it produces a report by CyclOpe and Veolia Environmental Services has found. Following up from its 2006 report From Waste to Resource, results show developed countries China, the USA and the EU15 top the list as the biggest producers of municipal waste. According to From Waste to Resource: An abstract of 2009 World Waste Survey, waste from richer countries contains more packaging materials such as paper, glass and metals but less organic waste. Up to 50% of the total municipal waste could be made up from paper and cardboard, with a substantial percentage of plastics, metals and glass mixed in too.,
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