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Manchester City Council becomes the first English council to sign up to the Halving Waste to Landfill voluntary agreement

Since its launch in October 2008, over 80 organisations have signed up to WRAP’s voluntary agreement. 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. Manchester City Council has committed to making sustainability and the environment a key priority moving forward. By making this commitment Manchester joins leading clients, cont... [more]

Waste Protocol Project wants to identify additional waste materials that can be reused and recycled

The Waste Protocols Project, a joint Environment Agency and WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme) initiative, has launched the search for additional waste materials that can be reused and recycled, rather than needlessly dumped in landfill. The Project, set up to help industry make better use of waste materials by clarifying in Quality Protocols how and when waste can be freed up from regulations and used with no further risk to the env... [more]

PFI funding allocated to South London Waste Partnership

The Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announved that the UK central government has awarded the South London Waste Partnership (Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton councils) £112.9 million of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) funding. This is the first waste PFI money allocated to London since 2002. The successful bid brings state-of-the-art waste treatment within the partnership boroughs a step closer to being realis... [more]

Heathrow Express aims to reduce waste to landfill to zero

Heathrow Express carries an average of 16,000 passengers each day with over 50 million people having travelled on Heathrow Express since launch. A culture of "re-use" and "recycle" is gathering pace to reduce waste being turned into landfill at Old Oak Common Depot, the maintenance depot for Heathrow Express. Steve Chambers, Service Proposition Director at Heathrow Express, said: "We are now recycling 50% of our non-hazardous waste at the depo... [more]

Leading organisations commit to halve construction waste to landfill

The reduction of construction waste is a key focus for the industry and WRAP's Halving Waste to Landfill commitment is a voluntary framework devised to help achieve a 50% reduction in construction, demolition and excavation waste sent to landfill by 2012. This initiative is viewed as environmentally and financially critical due to increasing costs of waste disposal. Since the commitment was launched in October 2008, over 60 organisations have ... [more]

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Another gravel mine
The first in a series of public meetings on a a proposed mine and reclamation project was held in Sanger last week..

CalRecycle, Santa Barbara County, Team Up to Fix Palomino Road
The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and Santa Barbara County have begun pilot program to repair Palomino Road, first damaged during the 2009 Jesusita Fire.

Chuck Royce Buys Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Lattice Semiconductor, Worthington Industries Inc. ...
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UMore wind energy forum draws a crowd
Some residents critical of University of Minnesota’s plans by Laura Adelmann Thisweek Newspapers University of Minnesota officials touted plans for a research wind project, gravel pit and housing development at UMore Park while some Rosemount residents cited concerns at a July 29 forum. With a $7.9 million federal grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, U of M officials ...