http://www.RecyclingNewsPortal.com/Latest Recycling technology and waste management news articlesenRecycling News PortalRecycling News Portalhttp://www.Recyclingnewsportal.com/recycling_article9024.htmlTue, 7 Apr 2009 18:16:21 GMTSince 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 ... [more] http://www.Recyclingnewsportal.com/recycling_article8981.htmlWed, 1 Apr 2009 15:19:02 GMTThe 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 re ... [more] http://www.Recyclingnewsportal.com/recycling_article8955.htmlFri, 27 Mar 2009 16:42:08 GMTThe 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) GBP112.9 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 ... [more] http://www.Recyclingnewsportal.com/recycling_article8928.htmlThu, 19 Mar 2009 12:55:34 GMTHeathrow 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 re ... [more] http://www.Recyclingnewsportal.com/recycling_article8918.htmlTue, 17 Mar 2009 16:10:07 GMTThe 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 lau ... [more]