22nd November 2019 | Recycling
The chief executive of Suez Recycling and Recovery UK has said that the industry faces an “exciting future”, despite the UK potentially taking a “5%” hit on its recycling rate next year due to the European definition change. The comments came from David Palmer-Jones at the 30th Anniversary of the North East Recycling Forum (NERF),…Read more
21st November 2019 | Residential Energy
Centrica is axing up to 2,000 jobs over 2019 as part of overall aims to save £1 billion by 2022. British Gas owner Centrica has revealed it lost another 107,000 household accounts, as it also upped its annual cost savings by £50 million. But the UK’s biggest gas and electricity supplier said it had eased…Read more
21st November 2019 | Recycling
The Labour Party has vowed to end the export of plastic waste and invest in a “new plastics remanufacturing industry”, as part of a series of waste and recycling pledges in its 2019 manifesto. Launched by Jeremy Corbyn in Birmingham this morning, November 19, the manifesto has a large focus on the environment particularly with…Read more
18th November 2019 | Commercial Energy
Onshore wind remains pivotal to a net zero future. We cannot afford to forget about it, writes Kevin Cannon, managing associate at law firm Addleshaw Goddard. Glasgow was selected in September to host the 26th Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Scotland has long been the UK’s strongest…Read more
15th November 2019 | Recycling
China’s largest dump is already full – 25 years ahead of schedule. The Jiangcungoug landfill in Shaanxi Province which is the size of around 100 football fields, was designed to take 2,500 tonnes of rubbish per day. But instead it received 10,000 tonnes of waste per day – the most of any landfill site in…Read more