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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Food waste in the UK is around 18 - 20 million tonnes a year according to WRAP. Once in landfill food breaks down and can produce methane - a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than CO2. It also contaminates everything it comes into contact with rendering it non-recyclable.
As well as meeting new suppliers who can reduce your waste, save you money and give you a competitive edge, a visit to RWM will give you free access to legislative advice and great ideas from other businesses presenting case studies in the free seminar sessions.

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. [...]

Recycling and Waste Management may not be the most glamorous sector of the UK industry, but there are times when those of us who work in it day-in, day-out have reason to be proud, whether that’s when you review the whole industry at an event like RWM, or if you consider some of our outstanding innovators [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“Kid in a sweet shop” is a term that springs to mind when watching waste or facilities managers exploring the latest bin and container ranges at RWM! There surely can’t be a larger selection exhibited anywhere in the UK…. underground, overground, glow in the dark, designer - whether you are looking at wheeled bins for [...]

This week Tory think tank Policy Exchange made a grab for the recycling and waste management political agenda with the launch of its report “A Wasted Opportunity”.
Whatever you make of it, it’s good to see recycling and waste management rising up the political agenda ahead of the coming election. I certainly think there are votes [...]