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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New Government Bins Pay as You Throw
Householders may soon benefit from greater incentives to recycle their waste, as the new government bins Labour’s previous plan to levy householders with a “pay as you throw” charge, in favour of a new recycling reward scheme, which is already being successfully pioneered by the Windsor & Maidenhead Council in Berkshire.
Under the new [...]
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 [...]
Could the Environmental Sector Benefit from General Election Result?
So the voting’s over and the politics has begun all over again. David Cameron hasn’t achieved a Conservative majority, Gordon Brown hasn’t yet left Downing Street and Nick Clegg hasn’t done nearly as well for the Liberal Democrats as the opinion polls were suggesting. What next? We seem to have entered a constitutional paralysis while all parties [...]
Going Batty Over Battery Recycling
Working in the industry as I have said before does tend to make you a bit of a hoarder. I just can’t bear to throw anything away. Even more so when I know that there are supposed to be facilities for recycling them having followed the progress of the Battery Directive over what now seems [...]
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. [...]
Resource Waste Management Summit
If your job requires you to keep abreast of all the latest developments in resource and waste management, here is an event coming up early next year that I think you should seriously consider attending. It’s called the Resource Waste Management Summit and it is taking place at the Olympia Conference Centre in London on the 9th and 10th February 2010. [...]
Tories to Pay Households to Recycle
We try not to dip our toe in political waters too often here at RWM, but here goes. Conservative Shadow chancellor George Osborne has unveiled a raft of proposed environmental measures at a speech at Imperial College London this evening. This is one of a series of speeches on the environment being made by shadow minsters this [...]
Taste of RWM 09 - Review Video
A snapshot video review of RWM 09, the Recycling and Waste Management Exhibition at the Birmingham NEC 15-17 Sept 2009. Hear what visitors, exhibitors and seminar speakers say about the UK environmental sector’s premier event. 2009 was the most successful year ever for RWM. This video is as close as you can get to being [...]
Demystifying Carbon Footprints with Tate & Lyle
Which do you think would have the biggest carbon footprint? 1kg of Tate & Lyle sugar made in London from raw material shipped thousands of miles across the sea or 1kg of sugar made from locally-grown sugar beet and shipped to the refinery by road.
The carbon footprint of the beet sugar is about 0.6 kg [...]
