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Construction Commitments: Halving Waste to Landfill; the industry responsibility deal launched by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) in October 2008, today gave the first indication of the impact signatories to the deal are having in curbing the amount of Construction, Demolition and Excavation (CD&E) waste the industry sends to landfill each year.
Work is underway in England and Scotland on a series of landmark trials examining the potential for using anaerobic digestate as an alternative to commercial fertilisers in landscaping and regeneration projects.
Today, Staples Vegetables in Boston, Lincolnshire, one of the biggest producers of vegetables in the UK, is the first of the anaerobic digestion projects funded through the Government’s Environmental Transformation Fund to be officially opened in 2011.
Insight into the reasons behind the estimated 80,000 tonnes of food wasted in schools each year is revealed in a new report launched by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) today.
The latest report on plasterboard waste, produced as part of the Ashdown Agreement, describes a third year in which waste gypsum has been reduced across all four targets. This year’s report in particular shows a significant drop in the amount of gypsum landfilled during the manufacture of new plasterboard; down to just 504 tonnes (twelve months to 31 March 2010) against the original target of 10,000 tonnes (year 2007/08).
A new support scheme has been launched today to help Welsh manufacturing Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) save money and help the environment by increasing the amount of recycled content in their products, processes and packaging.
Some of the UK’s biggest grocery and construction companies have this week pledged to make resource savings by signing up to two environmental responsibility deals.
Following the success of the recent 'Advantage West Midlands' (AWM) programme, which will enable the recycling of over one million extra tonnes of commercial and industrial waste over the next four years, WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) is pleased to announce a new business development fund. This aims to create the infrastructure to recycle a further 500,000 tonnes of waste by 2015. With the new business opportunities also comes the chance of new jobs for the region.
Construction Commitments: Halving Waste to Landfill recently smashed through the 500th signatory mark, bringing the potential UK construction contracts to benefit from this waste reduction initiative to well over £30 billion.
An analysis of the performance of kerbside recycling services for local authorities in the United Kingdom for 2008/09 has been released by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) today. Performance varies significantly, and the report explores how this is affected by the choice of collection system and the characteristics of the local area. It also provides benchmarks to help authorities compare their performance with that of similar authorities.
