Aggregate and concrete recycling news articles 
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]
Other Aggregate and concrete recycling news and reviews
Fremont landfill to add biohazardous waste facility
FREMONT -- The City Council has approved a plan to add a biohazardous waste processing facility at a recycling center at the western end of Auto Mall Parkway.
After 50 years, Osbornes continue to keep JTO Inc. thriving (with video, document)
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Saturday last day for tree recycling
Pueblo city and county residents may drop off their trees, which have been cleaned of decorations, stands, wires or nails, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. today and Saturday.
Council considering master plan amendment
Zone change would give Grinnell green light for soil mining operation
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