It has been reported on www.letsrecycle.com that the UK's first dedicated apprenticeship for the waste management and recycling sector is set to be launched at the end of December to help dispel the notion of it being a ‘low-skilled' industry, the sector skills council Energy & Utility Skills has revealed. The apprenticeship is set […]
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Source: www.sepa.org.uk The consultation sets out some significant changes that SEPA is proposing in order to improve, simplify and better integrate the environmental protection and improvement services it provides for Scotland. We want Scotland to have a world class system for environmental regulation – with SEPA doing better with less and delivering services that are
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Albion Environmental Ltd is pleased that GP Plantscape has recently secured the contract with East Renfrewshire Council for Processing of co-mingled organic green and organic food waste. Albion has been actively involved with GP Plantscape to ensure their new Wasteology in vessel composting facility is ready to begin operation early 2011. Our work involved securing
Albion Environmental Ltd were recently granted planning application to extend the existing waste recycling facility run by D.W.Parker Skip Hire in Ardrossan. This permission involved doubling the size of the existing facility allowing D.W Parker to extend the range of waste materials they divert from landfill. Albion Environmental Ltd were also able to get the new upgraded
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Albion Environmental Ltd, acting for and on behalf of J &M Murdoch & Son Ltd, were recently successful in being awarded a capital grant from Zero Waste Scotland. This capital funding will be used to increase the quantity and quality of non-inert construction and demolition waste arisings diverted from landfill. The monies will be used to extend J &M Murdoch's existing waste recycling
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Fines totalling £113,500 have been handed out to seven companies following investigations by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) into a site in South Lanarkshire. The site at Bardykes Bing, located between Cambuslang and Blantyre, is operated by Doonin Plant Limited. They pled guilty last year to disposing of controlled waste in a manner likely
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HSE alerts inspectors to a planned inspection campaign within the waste and recycling industry during 20010/11. Inspections should be targeted at skip-hire operations and associated recycling activities, particularly those where hand sorting of recyclables ('totting') takes place, and has specific emphasis on management of workplace transport risks. Full details HERE If you need any help/advice
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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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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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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
