Albion Environmental Ltd hosts official opening party to celebrate opening of new extension. Alasdair Meldrum, Director, Albion Environmental Ltd was delighted to welcome guests to the official opening of the new extension to our office. Albion moved into these premises at 1 Damside over 3 years ago, but due to continued expansion and rapid growth […]
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Do your employees require a rounding of the essentials in health in safety? Regardless of sector or level everyone at work should have an understanding of why they must “work safely” – and this course offers exactly that! The IOSH Working Safely Course is a 1 day course. It is a fun, jargon-free course designed
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M Materials Recovery Facility A Materials Recovery Facility, or an MRF as it is more commonly referred to, is a specialised facility in which household waste is collected and sorted or separated into different types. These may include: Plastic Glass Metal Textiles Paper This segregation process can be done with both manual and mechanical
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Congratulations to Nathan O’Connell, Scott Thomson and Mark Yates from South Ayrshire Council who have successfully completed the Sustainable Resource Management Level 2 Modern Apprenticeship Framework. This award has various pathways and South Ayrshire Council chose the ‘Frontline Environmental Services’ route, which incorporates a great variety of waste management and environmental related activities and topics.
L Landfill Monitoring Disposing of waste to landfill has been the traditional means of disposal in the UK for many years. This method of disposal generates products from the decomposition process, Landfill Gas (mainly a mix of carbon dioxide and methane) and Leachate. Both of these products require to be managed in order to prevent odour, litter,
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Did you know SQA and WAMITAB offer a nationally recognised Frontline Environmental Services Level 2 Award? This award is suitable for people wishing to join the waste management industry, apprentices and people who already work in Frontline Environmental Services and would like to gain a formal qualification. If you are an employee or an employer and would like to find
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K Kerbside Collection Kerbside collection is a service provided usually by Local Authorities in which household waste is uplifted and taken for recycling, reuse or disposal. Kerbside waste collections are usually split into categories to encourage recycling and extract maximum value from the resources, for example you may have one bin for general waste, one
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As an Ambassador of the SWITCH Forum, Albion would like to encourage attendance at focus group sessions. Please see below information from the SWITCH Forum. Following the successful launch of the competence framework and supporting tools, the SWITCH forum (Scottish Waste Industry Training, Competence and Health & Safety forum) has been exploring the concept of a passport
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Did you know there is a training course that can equip you with the skills to effectively communicate important messages to your staff and work colleagues? Albion\’s Tool Box Talk training course is jointly certificated by The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) and consists of the following 6 modules: Why people learn Motivation and learning Question and answer technique Constructive
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We can all throw our money away buying unnecessary items; however, some people are quite literally throwing their money away. Albion Environmental staff who were conducting compositional waste analyses began to discover a number of coins within the residual waste stream and decided to start monitoring. Data was collected over the past year in various
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