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Boris Introduces New Recycling Scheme

Love him or hate him, blonde haired, bumbling, posho Boris Johnson wants to introduce a new scheme to the UK which rewards recycling efforts by handing out shopping vouchers to people.

Boris Johnson hopes the scheme rewards recycling households as he aims to cut the amount of rubbish going to landfill sites to zero within 15 years.

Johnson is backing a London-based trial of an American scheme called Recycle Bank, which gives householders shopping vouchers or donations to charity to the value of how much they recycle.

Johnson estimates a typical London household would make £14 a month under the scheme, one of a series of proposals contained in a draft municipal waste strategy.

Figures show the capital’s recycling rates lags behind both the rest of the UK and other international cities.

Johnson, who chairs the London Waste and Recycling Board, wants to save £90m per year through more recycling, better coordination and greater investment in less polluting technologies to either dispose of waste or convert it into a local source of energy.

Just 25% of the 4m tonnes of household waste generated each year by Londoners is recycled, with half going to landfill sites. The remainder goes to incinerators.

The cost of managing this waste is approximately £600m every year, with wide variations between boroughs’ recycling rates.

Johnson is writing to all London borough leaders to ask them to redouble their efforts in recycling and – with landfill rates set to increase from current associated costs of around £245m to £307m by 2013 – reminding them of pressure on future council tax bills if they fail to act.

The Tory mayor believes the carrot, rather than the stick, should be among the strategies applied to improve London’s ranking by rewarding those who opt to recycle rather than imposing penalties on those who don’t.

The American Recycle Bank scheme is in line with Conservative interest in the “nudge” theories of American sociologists Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, and has so far been adopted by Tory-led Windsor and Maidenhead council.

Other incentives to reduce landfill include schemes to encourage shoppers to bring their own reusable bags in an attempt to turn London into Britain’s first plastic bag-free city in time for the Olympics in 2012.

The mayor wants the capital to be recycling at least 45% of its municipal waste (which includes street litter, grass cuttings and some waste from small businesses as well as household waste) by 2015, rising to 60% by 2031, sending “zero municipal waste” directly to landfill by 2025, with any residue from other waste processing being banned from landfill by 2031.

February 18, 2010 at 8:13 am | Back Issues of "The Skip" | No comment

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WOOD RECOVERY DOUBLED WITH FLEXHAMMER

Across the valley from Ovenden Moor Wind Farm above Halifax, Envirowaste Services Ltd, perched high on Swales Moor, has taken delivery of the UK’s first mobile IQR FlexHammer™ 1800. Part of the Leo Group of companies, Envirowaste Services and its sister company, The Big Green Timber Company, will initially use the high-capacity, heavy-duty, high-speed shredder to increase the amount of wood waste they recover from 25,000TPA to 50,000TPA.
“The amount of waste wood still going to landfill in the UK is astonishing. The addition of the FlexHammer™ helps us to divert more material from landfill and recycle it into products for a variety of uses including energy production,” said Bobby Barr, Sales & Commercial Manager.
“At the moment we are achieving around a 75% recycling rate from all the material processed through our waste transfer stations. This new machine we help us to increase that to more than 95%,” Bobby continued.
Envirowaste Services pay particular attention to the impact on local residents, ecological considerations and noise and dust reductions.
“This is a necessary part of providing the reliable, efficient and on-time service we are renowned for,” commented Bobby.
He continues, “As well as ensuring a reliable and dedicated service it means we are always one step ahead. This is also reflected in our purchase of the first mobile IQR FlexHammer™ in the UK.”
Set up in 1997 and currently employing 55 people, Envirowaste reclaims a wide variety of materials from their domestic, commercial, C & D, industrial and municipal contracts throughout West Yorkshire. Materials reclaimed include cardboard and paper for pulping; plastics for further reprocessing; wood for board production and biomass; metal; and a range of quality recycled aggregates, including Type 1, 6F2, pipe-bedding and top-soil.
Bobby is enthusiastic about the effect the FlexHammer™ will have on the company’s productivity and finances, “The flexible hammers make this a true multi-material machine. We can quickly and easily move the machine to a different part of the yard and switch from wood waste processing to converting residual waste into RDF without having the laborious task and associated downtime of changing the hammers to cope with the change in material. Material that would previously have gone to landfill can now be converted into a highly sought after, environmentally sustainable RDF product.”
The 875HP Caterpillar C27 engine powering the machine benefits from brand new Advanced Combustion Emissions Reduction Technology (ACERT). This saves the company money in terms of lower fuel consumption and benefits the environment with even lower emissions.
Bobby can see an ever closer synergy in future between the waste and energy industries, “Some material just can’t be recycled, but it can be converted into a valuable carbon-friendly fuel that can form part of the answer to on-going sustainable energy production.”
He concludes, “This machine will help us to divert even more material from landfill and provide an environmentally sustainable fuel that can help reduce carbon emissions.”
Weighing in at 45 tonnes, the FlexHammer™ 1800 has a 6m x 2m feed opening and a 1.8m shaft, equipped with either 48 or 24 flexible hammers. The FlexHammer™ 1800 is capable of achieving over 100TPH and is one of the largest high speed shredders on the market.
Foldable walkways, air suspension and hydraulic supports ensure easy transportation between sites. The FlexHammer’s™ unique design allows for a range of particle sizes to be achieved – between 0-500mm – and is renowned for low wear costs, high productivity and long life expectancy.

July 29, 2008 at 11:37 am | Skip Hire Industry News | No comment

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VIVA FIRST GRADE!

Firstgrade Recycling Systems of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, have just commissioned their first waste screening system in Spain.
The recycling plant was supplied to a client in the La Rioca region of northern Spain, where some of the finest Spanish wines are produced, said Mr Valentine of Firstgrade.
Designed specifically for construction and demolition waste, the system supplied includes a vibrating feeder, trommel screen, air knife, picking station and overband magnet.
All of the equipment was designed and built here in Suffolk, and shipped to Spain on two flat bed Artics. The groundwork was completed by the client to Firstgrade’s specification, and installation was carried out by Firstgrade’s local agent Macarsan.
For more information call 0844 560 7706 and quote “Viva First Grade TS36”.

July 25, 2008 at 12:02 pm | Skip Hire Industry News | No comment

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DEVON CONTRACT WASTE PACK IT ALL IN!

Devon Contract Waste has recently installed a Randalls Simpak 1800 compactor at its Exeter site and, already, transport costs have halved.
The compactor is used to compact wastes which cannot be used by any of the company’s extensive recycling services. The Simpak 1800 at Devon Contract Waste, the largest in the Randalls range, is currently processing 40-50 tonnes per week, producing a major saving compared with the transport and labour costs incurred in handling uncompacted waste.
Manufactured from premium grade materials, the Simpak 1800 has a 1.7 cubic metre charge box and 7.5 kW motor driving up to a nominal 130 cubic metres an hour, at a compaction force of approximately 28,000 Kgf. Cycle time is 45 seconds. The main control panel and isolator are located inside the rear of the machine and a separate panel close to the loading area is fitted with warning indicators.
Devon Contract Waste was established in 1989 to provide a waste collection and recycling service for both domestic and business clients. It is now the largest independent waste management company in the area.
Approved to ISO 9001:2000, the Skip Units Group is the largest manufacturer of steel containers, skips and equipment for the waste industry in the UK. Apart from Randalls, the other members of the group are Castle Containers of Chesterfield, Waste Equipment Rentals of Stockport, specialists in compactor hire and the Northwich-based Truck Specialists Ltd. which supplies hook lifts and telescopic arm skiploaders.

July 23, 2008 at 11:53 am | Skip Hire Industry News | No comment

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