newsPortland Scrap Metal fined for keeping waste vehicles
THE DORSET firm disputed the vehicles were end-of-life when they entered the site but admitted breaching the enforcement notice after ignoring several warnings.
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productPandemic’s impact on commercial recycling
Rubbermaid Commercial Products (RCP) publishes the findings from their second Love Recycling study.
productRCP’s Love Recycling study enters second phase
Rubbermaid Commercial Products (RCP) has started the second phase of its Love Recycling study with a survey investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on commercial recycling in Europe – and the potential ramifications.
newsCrackdown on illegal waste activities
THE JOINT Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC) has conducted a successful raid on an illegal waste site in Lancashire as it continues to combat serious and organised waste crime across the UK.
newsBanksman crushed by shovel loader
A WASTE management company pleaded guilty to causing a life changing injury to one of its employees.
articlePollution prevention
30 years ago all our major rivers were open sewers. Now we have otters in every English county and 97% of our bathing beaches pass European standards. But are England’s rivers still among the most polluted in Europe?
Here, Miles Hillmann asks Helen Wakeham from the Environment Agency (EA) about water pollution incidents in Britain and the value to companies and other organisations of public recognition through entering the BSIF Water Pollution Prevention Award.
newsWorker trapped by fallen paper bale
A WASTE management and packing company has been fined after a worker was struck by a falling bale of compacted waste paper.
newsHoarder sentenced for flouting tyre storage laws
A MAN who ran illegal waste sites – dangerously hoarding hundreds of tonnes of waste tyres – has been handed a 12 month suspended prison sentence.
news£12000 fine for illegal waste operation
A SUNDERLAND man has been ordered to pay over £12,000 after a hearing at Sunderland Magistrates Court.
newsDirector of waste company convicted
THE DIRECTOR of a waste management company has been ordered to carry out unpaid work after an employee was critically injured.
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