CIWM and WAMITAB's 'Operator Competence Scheme' (the Scheme') for England and Wales only has a requirement for individuals to keep their competence up to date. Therefore all competent persons falling within the Scheme will be required to demonstrate Continuing Competence and this will be appropriate to the level of risk posed by the facility so […]
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Scotland Debut – Zero Waste Plan In June, Scotland become one of the first countries in the world to set out plans to become a "zero waste society", announcing a series of new initiatives and targets designed to ultimately reclassify waste as a valuable resource. (www.businessgreen.com) The plan includes a range of new targets, including
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5th September 2010 – Albion Environmental Ltd have decided raise money for MacMillan cancer care whilst at the same time challenging ourselves to jointly covering just short of 40 miles competing in the Great Scottish Run. Jonathan & Alasdair (being the slightly slimmer members of staff!!) will complete a half marathon each and Gary & Billy will each
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The Government is to carry out a full review of waste policy in England, looking at the most effective ways of reducing waste, maximising the money to be made from waste and recycling, and how waste policies affect local communities and individual households. (https://nds.coi.gov.uk) Announcing the review at the Futuresource conference (on 15th June 2010),
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On Monday 7th June, Alasdair Meldrum of Albion Environmental Ltd received his award of Certificate on Continuing Competence. The continuing competence scheme was developed jointly by WAMITAB & CIWM and approved by Defra & the Welsh Assembly Government. The award provides evidence maintaining competence over time and meets the specific requirements of the Environmental Permitting
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On Friday 28th May, Albion Environmental Ltd were pleased to play host to SQA and 20 visitors from Romania. During their visit they were shown around our approved centre and received a presentation on how an approved SQA centre is run. A follow up message from SQA was emailed showing the feedback from the visit. “You
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The Scottish Government have asked Caledonian Environment Centre (CEC) as part of its Remade Scotland programme to manage a tendering, evaluation and funding project for a pilot on a heat from waste or EfW (Energy from Waste) plants. This project was suggested by the Zero Waste Think Tank for Scotland. It is expected that suitable
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Albion Environmental Limited recently helped Billy Bowie Special Projects Ltd set up procedures in order to attain the PAS 100:2005 accreditation from the Association for Organics Recycling for their composting operation at their Moorfield Industrial Estate site in Kilmarnock. A quality management system was set up along with corresponding quality control documentation. These were
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Albion are pleased to announce that a new programme has been designed to help support the Government’s target of halving waste to landfill by 2012 by providing capital support for investment in processing capacity to enable the construction industry to recycle their waste arisings rather than dispose of them to landfill. The aim of the
Albion Environmental Ltd has recently submitted several annual monitoring reports on behalf of Shanks Argyll and Bute, Straid Farms Ltd, Oran Recycling and GP Plantscape. Waste Management Licence (WML) and Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) Permits require the submission of an annual report detailing all monitoring and analysis data from site to SEPA
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