Recycling technology and waste management news articles

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 in the UK – and will be able discuss ways to make their business more successful using waste processing technology. Riverside managing director C... [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 worked with HW Martin for several years. When HW Martin required a state-of-the-art RDF facility, they chose OKLM to design and build the plant and t... [more]

Social housing residents in North Tyneside save on their energy bills following green refurbishments

Residents living in Shiremoor, North Tyneside are set to save more than £19,000 collectively on their energy bills and reduce their carbon emissions by over 100 tonnes in the next year, thanks to a package of green refurbishments by Kier North Tyneside. The scheme to improve the energy efficiency of social housing involves large-scale refurbishments to almost 50 homes in the area with a view to rolling the project out across the remaining properties in North Tyneside. The work to the prefabricated concrete homes, known as ‘Orlits’, includes cladding the buildings with traditional looking... [more]

Planning permission given for Scotland's largest ever anaerobic digestion facility

With the escalation of landfill tax, a growing emphasis on recycling and recovery, new government incentives to encourage renewable energy from waste, and new technologies coming on stream, the opportunities for small and medium sized waste contractors have never been greater, especially in the area of commercial and industrial waste, where the volumes being generated in the UK are four to five times higher than municipal solid waste. And nowhere are the commercial and environmental pressures greater than in Scotland, where the recycling targets are the highest in Europe. So the recent news... [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 the hospital’s carbon footprint. Simon Marriott, project manager for Skanska, the hospital’s hard facilities management provider, explained: “Our on... [more]