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The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has issued a new consultation on the revised waste Framework Directive (Directive 2008/98/EC) for England and Wales.
Further details can be found by clicking here while a copy of the consultation document in pdf format can be downloaded by hitting the link (below).
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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.
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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>.
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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 Forestry Commission Scotland and SAC amongst others in partnership with WRAP - are designed to determine the commercial benefits of using quality compost in applications that range from soil improvement through to the establishment of woodland and biomass crops on brownfield land.
For further information, please click <a href=”http://www.wrap.org.uk/wrap_corporate/news/scotland_trials_set.html”>here</a>.
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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 details here.
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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 here for further details.
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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.
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The Government-backed Waste & Resources Action Programme has launched a new feasibility study
and industry consultation to assess the potential and need for an innovative new construction waste recycling framework.
Click here for further details.
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WRAP has announced a number of new trials to demonstrate the financial, practical and environmental case for using quality compost in applications that range from green roofs and rain gardens to the growing of bio-fuel crops on regenerated brownfield land.
Click here for further details:
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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
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