No steps forward, three steps back By Elliot Harrison-Holt – Waste Services Director at Everflow Forward progress on the UK’s green agenda is all about timing. Getting ambitious initiatives off the ground at the right moment and with the necessary buy-in from all key stakeholders can help to ensure ideas take root and bear the...
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Recycling alone won’t solve the plastic pollution crisis, says ISB Global
Recycling is not enough by itself to solve the global plastic pollution crisis and governments, businesses and consumers themselves must change how they use and dispose of plastic, according to CHRIS WILLIAMS, founder and CEO of ISB Global, the UK-based software and solutions provider for the global waste management and recycling sector. In this featured post,...
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Smart trash compactors vs. Traditional waste management: which is better?
Sarah Vernau, Marketing Manager at Flame UK, is an innovative leader in cost containment and the management of all waste, energy, and water consuming businesses. Smart trash compactors are waste management systems that use advanced sensors and machine learning technology to compact and sort waste. Traditional waste-management systems, by contrast, sort and dispose of waste...
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The use of Trommels in Waste
In the solid-waste processing industries, a trommel is a type of screening apparatus. It makes use of the principle of centrifugal force to remove coarse materials from smaller ones and separate them from each other. Not just Trommels in waste, Trommels are used in a wide variety of applications, including both industrial and agricultural operations....
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Screenpod lead the way for ‘dust-have’ equipment
SCREENPOD Design & Manufacturing is a name now synonymous with dust suppression. Entering the market in 2018, the company rapidly established itself as one of the leading manufacturers of dust suppression equipment, offering a comprehensive portfolio of innovate products, renowned for their exceptional performance and reliability, and used across a variety of sites from recycling...
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Why it’s more important than ever to utilise waste wood
By Julia Turner, Executive Director, Wood Recyclers’ Association AS winter approaches, we always expect to see a growth in demand for waste wood. Cold weather drives up demand for biomass fuel to produce energy as well as demand for products such as animal bedding. However, this year a number of factors – ranging from high...
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Directors in the firing line
By Dr Anna Willetts, President of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and Co-Convenor of UKELA’s Waste Working Party THANK you to Skip Hire & Waste Magazine for inviting me to join the Business Clinic column (sadly not, I note, the Skip Chick page…). I’ll get straight in with an article which seems to me...
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Protecting vulnerable road users: Can you put a price on life or reputation?
By Andy Brooke, CLOCS Programme Director WITH nearly four times as many construction-related fatalities outside the hoarding compared to inside, it is clear there is still much work for our industry to do to reduce the risk to Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs). HGVs are disproportionately involved in collisions with VRUs, typically comprising around just 5%...
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Safety in the metal recycling industry
By Foridha Zaman, Centre Manager, QSP Training Ltd QSP TRAINING Ltd is one of the largest centres registered to CIWM/WAMITAB, with over 35 assessors spread between Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England. We are also the only centre able to offer Continuing Competence tests for all CIWM/WAMITAB waste management awards at our Pearson VUE centre....
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When does a bonfire become an illegal burning site?
By Sandra Dick AS the rhyme reminds us, November is a time to remember gunpowder, treason and plot. It’s also hard to avoid the distinct whiff of smoke as bonfires mark an event that unfolded almost 420 years ago. What began with a few straw-stuffed effigies of Guy Fawkes being burned in the 17th century...