Envirolink Northwest will be hosting a Pavilion at RWM, showcasing a number of successful North West-based companies from the recycling and waste arena. Established in 2000, Envirolink Northwest is a not for profit organisation helping to develop and grow the low carbon environmental goods and services sector in the North West of England. Since April [...]
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Keep Your RWM Visit Green!
Here are some ideas for making sure your visit to RWM is as green as possible!
The NEC is well served by public transport but if you have to travel by car you can save money and minimise your carbon footprint by using Liftshare. Go to http://bit.ly/liftshare to register and share your journey. Liftshare is one [...]
Focus Your Energy at RWM!
If you look at the seminar programmes or the exhibitor listings for RWM you will see how central energy has become in the issue of how we deal with our waste. Today that cross over was further cemented with the announcement that Emap (which owns RWM) has just purchased The Energy Event which will run [...]
RWM Exhibitor Goes Undercover!
Did you see Viridor’s chief executive in Undercover Boss on Channel 4 recently? For those of us in the industry it made really compelling viewing. The issues he came across were not just confined to Viridor but applied to the industry as a whole: Health & Safety, staff welfare and retention, public apathy to recycling [...]
Building a Zero Waste Future: Construction Waste Solutions at RWM
According to research released by the Strategic Forum for Construction, 12.55 million tonnes of CD&E waste (that’s 118 tonnes per £million of contractors’ output) was being sent to landfill a couple of years ago. I am sure that with the pressure of recession and the annual landfill tax increases over that period, the financial incentive [...]
Recycled Clothing is a World Cup Winner!
As preparations for our first ever Catwalk show gather momentum it seems that we are not the only ones looking to promote the growing trend of textile recycling. Nine nations including Brazil, Portugal and Holland are currently waiting to stride out onto the pitches of this year’s World Cup in shirts made from recycled plastic [...]
The colour of the coalition
A new ‘coalition agreement’ and a fresh programme of measures to push the UK towards a low-carbon economy; but many questions still remain over the detail. As MRW points out, Chris Huhne, newly appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, is not a supporter of incineration, while Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for [...]
Spring has Sprung in the RWM Floor Plan!
As we approach Easter the final stands for RWM 10 are being snapped up. In fact with 85 % of stand space already sold out and the backing of some major industry names, we’ve a Floor Plan that suggests a very healthy industry indeed! Bang in the centre is the new Viridor Visitor Lounge where visitors [...]
Justifying the cost of an exhibition
Some interesting stats just back from the Audit Bureau of Circulations - an official body which basically checks up on the claims which exhibition companies make about visitors to their shows. As we hoped, last year’s exhibition (RWM 09) was another record breaker, attracting more visitors than ever before.
The business news today might have been about recovery rather [...]
Promising start to a year of promises
Happy New Year to you all from the team at RWM. On our long journeys to work through the snow we’ve been reflecting on the eventful past 12 months and wondering what 2010 has in store for us!
This time last year the industry was still in a state of shock after the recession had hit. [...]
