A newborn baby girl whose body was found wrapped in towel at a recycling centre was laid to rest in a pink coffin today – as her mother is still untraced eight months on. The newborn’s body was found at the Bowling Back Lane Household Waste Recycling Centre in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in August last year. A … Read more
The NHS is using new tech that turns waste personal protective equipment (PPE) like COVID masks, gowns and curtains into plastic for school chairs and other products. Machines developed by the Cardiff-based Thermal Compaction Group can compact bags of PPE into large, reusable plastic blocks in the space of an hour. These three-feet-long blocks can then be collected … Read more
The NHS is using new tech that turns waste personal protective equipment (PPE) like COVID masks, gowns and curtains into plastic for school chairs and other products. Tech that makes school chairs and other items from waste personal protective equipment (PPE) like COVID masks, gowns and curtains is being used by the NHS. Machines developed by the Cardiff-based Thermal … Read more
March 3: Sarah disappeared after leaving friend’s home Clapham around 9pm. She leaves out of her friend’s back gate and speaks to her boyfriend on the phone for 15 minutes. March 5: Sarah’s family share missing posters of her after they become increasingly concerned that she is still not home, spreading the word online with … Read more
March 3: Sarah disappeared after leaving friend’s home Clapham around 9pm. She leaves out of her friend’s back gate and speaks to her boyfriend on the phone for 15 minutes. March 5: Sarah’s family share missing posters of her after they become increasingly concerned that she is still not home, spreading the word online with … Read more
Tesco has started rolling out ‘soft plastic’ recycling points for old packaging such as bread bags, pet food pouches and crisp packets. The retailer said it had started putting the recycling points into 171 stores in the south-west of England and Wales with plans to roll out to all large branches nationwide, following a successful … Read more
How a third of our recycling is sent straight to the incinerator: Councils are ‘highly incentivised’ to send waste to rubbish-burning power plants More than third of recycling is burned rather than reused despite complex rules In Southend-on-Sea in Essex, 45 per cent of recycling is sent to an incinerator Councils are ‘highly incentivised’ to … Read more
Recycling worker wins unfair dismissal case after being sacked for failing a drugs test while taking cannabis for his bad back Recycling worker Carl Pamment wins unfair dismissal case against employer Pamment had been taking cannabis to help deal with his severe back pain Renewi UK Services fired him claiming he posed safety risk ‘under … Read more
Recycling worker wins unfair dismissal case after being sacked for failing a drugs test while taking cannabis for his bad back Recycling worker Carl Pamment wins unfair dismissal case against employer Pamment had been taking cannabis to help deal with his severe back pain Renewi UK Services fired him claiming he posed safety risk ‘under … Read more
Festive season is already over! Hundreds of dumped Christmas trees start piling up at recycling sites on first day of 2021 as families begin taking down their decorations London was scattered with old Christmas trees as country is eager to forget 2020 and prepare for new year Discarded trees could be seen lining a recycling … Read more