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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]
Site Waste Management Plans help manage materials and reduce construction waste
Around 1.1m tonnes of construction and demolition waste was sent to landfill in 2007 in Wales. Much of this waste could have been re-used or recycled, representing massive missed cost savings for construction businesses. In the same year around 4,000 fly-tipping incidents of construction waste illegally dumped in the countryside were reported by local authorities in Wales. As a major casualty of the economic slump, construction businesses in W... [more]
Dunweedin Rubber Bark for Play Areas allows schools to create environmentally friendly play areas
Dunweedin’ have devised a new payment scheme to help schools cover the cost of buying its recycled rubber chippings for playgrounds without having to make finance applications to their Local Education Authority. Dunweedin’s Rubber Bark for Play Areas, allows schools to create attractive, safe play areas, which are also environmentally friendly. The rubber chippings, which are designed to put an extra ‘spring’ into play areas, are made fro... [more]
UK landscaping business becomes world leader in carbon labelling
Marshalls plc has announced that from next month it will have the largest number of officially carbon labelled products anywhere in the world. The UK is leading the way in carbon labelling internationally, and Marshalls has been involved with the Carbon Trust’s carbon labelling pilot scheme for the past 18 months. From October, all of Marshalls’ 503 domestic landscaping products will be carbon labelled using the Carbon Trust’s official Carb... [more]
France is playing a pioneering role in the treatment of waste
The recycling of waste materials has become a major environmental and economic issue: today, the world generates 3,100 million metric tons (Mt) of waste each year. France is playing a pioneering role in the treatment of waste, using practical working methodologies to deal with the problems, and applying the ‘polluter pays’ principle. Proposed new reforms in France will focus on waste reduction. The aim is that, by 2012, 35% of waste will be r... [more]
