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RWM 2010 Preview: Riverside Provides the Complete Solution
Riverside Waste Machinery, the specialist shredding and baling equipment supplier, will again exhibit at September’s RWM exhibition (14-16th). Joining forces with Austrian shredding machinery manufacturer UNTHA on one of the largest stands of the show, the team will demonstrate its leading expertise in waste management. Visitors to stand 1186 will see the new look UNTHA RS series – when the revamped shredder is unveiled for the first time i... [more]
UNTHA TR Series shredder installed at new HW Martin RDF facility
HW Martin’s new RDF plant at Northampton is the latest recycling facility for the Derbyshire-based Martin Group which employees 500 people and has been providing waste recycling and management services to the public and private sectors for over 30 years. Their lead supplier, OKLM Recycling Technology, is a leading design-and-build plant builder specialising in Materials Recycling Facilities (MRFs), waste treatment plants and RDF plants and has wo... [more]
RS30 shredder helps Derby Hospital's NHS Foundation Trust deal with confidential waste
Riverside Waste Machinery, Veolia Environmental Services and Kelpack have helped Derby Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust achieve significant security, cost and environmental improvements, following investment by the Trust in a new confidential waste management system. Confidential hospital waste which was previously transported and incinerated off-site to create energy from waste, is now being shredded and recycled in a move which is improving t... [more]
How to reduce your offices' environmental impact
A recent business poll revealed 92% of office workers believe it is important for businesses to be environmentally responsible but only 51% of companies have a green policy in place. Making your workplace more environmentally efficient will help conserve resources, lower carbon emissions, save energy and keep bills down. UK recycling is estimated to save more than 18 million tonnes of C02 a year – the equivalent of taking five million cars off... [more]
Genuine closed loop recycling enables organisations to accurately measure how much waste they produce, recycle and re-use
A working group chaired by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is tasked with delivering carbon emissions reductions, with individual departments’ targets set by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). Genuine Closed Loop recycling will play an important role if central government is to achieve the target of cutting its own carbon emissions by 10 per cent in the next twelve months, according to a UK procurement expert. Andy Cra... [more]
Other Paper and cardboard recycling news and reviews
Roscoe recycling center still open this Saturday
ROSCOE — Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful reminds residents that its recycling center will be open from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Secrets of the set: bamboo skewers and recycled paper at Boston Court
It was all done with bamboo skewers, recycling and free pizza. The ambitious set of “The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder,” a play about the struggle to compile the Oxford English Dictionary, is itself a minor marvel. The co-production...
IESI Acquires Recycling Facility in North Austin
AUSTIN, TEXAS--(Marketwire - 09/03/10) - IESI Corporation ("IESI"), a subsidiary of IESI-BFC Ltd., announced today it has acquired Central Texas Secure Shredding and its recycling facility in Pflugerville, Texas. Central Texas Secure Shredding provides secure document destruction processes that include the collection of documents in locked containers, transportation in locked vehicles, mixing of ...
Perform a trash-can autopsy to save money and resources
(Photo: Denise Yeager)
New recycling center opening in Elk Co.
ST. MARYS - Elk County residents will soon have a new place to take their recyclables. The Community Recycling Center, which will likely open in November, will be located in the Stackpole Complex in St. Marys.
Curbside recycling finally comes to St. Petersburg
By Michael Van Sickler, Times Staff Writer Thursday, September 2, 2010 Joy Wissing and her dog Paddy recycle at the Crescent Lake location in St. Petersburg, Wednesday, September 1, 2010. ST. PETERSBURG — Environmentally conscious residents had much to cheer about Thursday as the City Council approved voluntary curbside recycling. The council unanimously approved a bid from Waste Services of ...
UI going for an ’A’ in Recycling 101
For University of Iowa students living in Currier Residence Hall, recycling is easy, freshman Nick Hestbech said.
Wendy Gordon: Love Match: NRDC and a Greener US Open
The US Tennis Association is greening their operations because it's smart and responsible business -- but also because they want to show their fans that it can be done on any scale.
Recycle RED, week of Sept. 6
During the week of Sept. 6, residents in the red area should put containers out for pickup by 6 a.m. on collection day. Containers should not be put at the curb before 4 p.m. on the day before collection is scheduled.
LEED Sustainability: A key component of Belvoir BRAC
As Fort Belvoir and other posts prepared for the monumental task of implementing the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure recommendations, the Department of the Army continued to improve its policy for sustainable design and development.
