In December 2020, we launched our first digital product the \’SAC MyBins App\’. After a year of planning, designing and of course living through a global pandemic, we were finally able to launch our first waste and recycling app in partnership with South Ayrshire Council. SAC MyBins is household waste and recycling app which provides […]
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On Tuesday 27th April 2021, Albion Environmental and Davidson Chalmers Stewart hosted their joint webinar on \’Soils, Stones and C&D Fines\’. After more than a year of virtual events, we were delighted with the turnout and would like to say a huge thanks to those who attended and took the time to listen to our
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Zero Waste in a City – How to Achieve it? Increasing human population and consumer demand is leading to a scarcity of natural resources. In 2017, worldwide material consumption reached 92.1 billion tons – about 250% more than the amount we consumed in 1970. Household goods tend to end up in municipal waste streams, where their value
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What is WEEE? WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) is said to be the fastest growing waste stream in the UK. It is a classification used for products that need batteries or have a plug, such as household appliances (fridges, toasters), IT gear (computes, phones), consumer equipment (TVs, radios), lighting and monitoring equipment (lightbulbs, smoke
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How good are your recycling habits? Do you understand how your habits can impact the success of whole recycling operations? Recycling helps to reduce the carbon emitted from creating new things; it is a crucial aspect of sustainable resource use; and if waste materials are recycled, they are less likely to wind up polluting the
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What are persistent organic pollutants (POP’s)? How do the recent changes to the hazardous waste regulations impact you? What are the implications of POP’s in waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)? What does this mean for the re-use and recycling industry? Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP’s) are potentially hazardous organic substances which can impact the environment
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Are you aware of your obligations under the Waste (Recyclate Quality) (Scotland) Regulations 2015? Albion’s Waste Compositional Analysis team have been providing bespoke training support and ad-hoc expert advice on the requirements for waste sampling and data provision. A Material Recovery Facility (MRF) is a facility where collected commercial and or household recyclable waste is
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Are You Helping or Hindering Scotland’s Recycling? How can this be improved? Currently the contamination rate in the Household waste recycling streams ranges from 0.91% to 43.04%* The average contamination rate for Scotland’s recycling is 17% *These figures, provided by SEPA, do not include waste that was so badly contaminated it does not make it
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Before something becomes a waste, it is a resource, with some degree of value. That resource can then turn into what is considered to be waste, for a variety of reasons: If a product is only designed for temporary use (for example, single-use plastics) If the inputs into a manufacturing/sales process are not used effectively,
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