According to a new straw poll conducted by the National Skip Hire & Recycling Association, there is a huge differential in the sums charged by local authorities for skip permits.
Apparently, a lack of standardisation is allowing some local authorities to charge ludicrous sums, according to a new straw poll from the National Skip Hire and Recycling Association. Indeed, based upon a sample of 18 local authorities selected at random, permit fees vary from no charge in Leicester up to a staggering £26 per day PLUS a £72 application fee in Kensington and Chelsea.
So, is this a reinforcement of the North-South divide? We’d love to hear what you’re paying in your local area so please let us have your thoughts using the Leave A Reply box below.
Full details of the straw poll can be found by clicking here.
We have found another interesting use for our Dig A Screener product by putting layers of grass into the screening bucket and then letting the screener do its work. What happens is that the good soil is regurgitated and then the sod stays in the screener. Another way of making money out of otherwise useless materials.
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 Reporting Portal. The portal allows monitoring of individual company performance improvement and permits comparison against industry standards.
Read the full story here.
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 Recycling Group vs. HM Revenue & Customs case as a key driver for this change.
Read the full story here.
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 builds on our existing programmes which have been operating for over five years and will divert more waste from landfill, create more renewable energy and produce more useful agricultural products.
This funding is in addition to the £10 million to help build anaerobic digestion demonstration plants announced by Hilary Benn in his speech to the National Farmers' Union Centenary Conference on 18 February 2008.
Read further details <a href=”http://www.wrap.org.uk/go.rm?id=26815″>here</a>.
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.
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 full story.
In response to the Government’s stated aim to halve the levels of construction and demolition waste going to landfill by 2012, the UK Contractors Group (UKCG) has produced detailed guidelines for member companies to measure and report construction waste.
A copy of the guidance can be downloaded here
According to the MRW website, the Environment Agency has sent guidance to local authorities asking them to report the final destination of materials they collect for recycling.
The guidance explains that Waste Disposal Authorities need to report the final destination of waste handled in the UK via their WasteDataFlow returns. The WDF is a web-based system for municipal waste data reporting by UK local authorities to Government. The guidance states that commercial confidentiality is not an excuse to withhold final destination of waste information.
Read the full story here.
Local authorities, reprocessors and other stakeholders in the recycling and waste management industry can now quickly and easily find municipal MRFs across the UK, following today’s launch by WRAP of a new online database.
Further details can be found here.
