http://dig-a-screener.com Excavator & Wheeled Loader Attachments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:09:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our decision to offer Dig A Screener and Dig A Crusher products for hire as well as sale has found favour with iTunes' Demolition Podcast Network and with the Demolition News website. Following an interview with Demolition News' founder Mark Anthony, you can now hear our rationale for starting our own ... http://dig-a-screener.com/2009/05/22/hear-us-on-itunes/ Trade magazine Contract Journal reports that members of the UK Contractors Group have agreed to sign up to the WRAP Halving Waste to Landfill Commitment. The group, which represents 25 major contractors, will individually report progress in achieving their own waste targets through the use of the WRAP Waste to Landfill ... http://dig-a-screener.com/2009/05/08/ukcg-signs-up-to-waste-initiative/ Online waste and recycling resource MRW is reporting that the Treasury has launched a consultation on modernising the landfill tax system which includes plans to change the definitions of taxable disposal of waste at a landfill site and inert wastes. The document titled Modernising landfill tax legislation cites last year’s Waste ... http://dig-a-screener.com/2009/04/27/landfill-tax-consultation/ WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) welcomes its additional £10 million funding announced in today’s budget for the development of reprocessing facilities for food waste. The funding will enable new composting and anaerobic digestion facilities to be built – processing over 300,000 additional tonnes of food waste every year. It ... http://dig-a-screener.com/2009/04/22/wrap-welcomes-additional-funding/ Chancellor  Alistair Darling has announced that there will be a continued increase in the standard rate of landfill tax by £8 per tonne on 1 April each year until  2013 in this year’s Budget. This will mean that landfill tax will be £56 in 2011, £64 in 2012 and £72 by ... http://dig-a-screener.com/2009/04/22/budget-confirms-landfill-tax-hike/ A new series of WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) projects being established across the country mean that Scotland is once again at the forefront of trialling innovative new applications for quality compost that will help shape policy and practice across the UK. The trials - which are being conducted by ... http://dig-a-screener.com/2009/04/16/scotland-announces-compost-trials/ Manchester City Council has become the first English council to sign up to WRAP’s (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Halving Waste to Landfill voluntary agreement. By making this commitment Manchester joins leading clients, contractors and retailers such as Network Rail, Laing O’Rourke, Balfour Beatty, Asda and Marks & Spencer. Read the full ... http://dig-a-screener.com/2009/04/09/manchester-joins-wrap-initiative/ We have just come across this excellent article on the subject of anaerobic digestion, a process that we firmly believe to be the solution to our growing waste management challenges here in the UK. Please click here for details. http://dig-a-screener.com/2009/03/26/the-business-case-for-anaerobic-digestion/ WRAP’s (Waste & Resources Action Programme) expanded business development service will enable small-medium (SME) recycling businesses across England to draw on local expertise through regionally placed business advisors. SMEs in the recycling or reprocessing industry can receive free support and advice from WRAP at any stage of their business development. Click ... http://dig-a-screener.com/2009/03/18/wrap-strengthens-regional-support/ Fife Council has announced today it will be the first council in Scotland to sign up to WRAP’s (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Halving Waste to Landfill commitment. Fife Council will join Laing O’Rourke and Hamilton Waste Recycling Ltd to bring the voluntary commitment to the Scottish construction industry. Click here for ... http://dig-a-screener.com/2009/03/17/wrap-initiative-hits-scotland/