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Northern Ireland’s Minister for the Environment, Edwin Poots yesterday (7th December 2010) told WRAP Northern Ireland’s (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Annual Conference in Belfast that he didn’t consider the nation’s 50% recycling target challenging enough.
A successful nine-month trial which saw fabric conditioner being sold in reusable pouches from dispensing machines has been completed.
The rapid growth of green roofs across the UK has been given a further boost today with a publication from WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) on the use of BSI PAS 100 quality compost in the development and maintenance of this increasingly popular construction application.
Yesterday the WRAP Chief Executive, Dr Liz Goodwin wrote to the Daily Mail in response to the Richard Littlejohn column on recycling, you can see her letter here:
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) today (9th November 2010) reports its progress to date on developing recycled polypropelyne (PP) that can be used in food packaging.
New research from WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has set out for the first time the contribution resource efficiency could make to conserving water and scarce materials in the UK at the same time as reducing our ecological footprint and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Phillip Ward, Director of Local Government Services at Government waste advisors WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) announced today that he is to retire from WRAP after more than seven years with the company.
Over one hundred local authorities have now committed to help improve residents’ satisfaction with how their waste and recycling is collected, by signing up to the Waste Collection Commitment.
The construction industry today unveiled a series of five Action Plans aimed at helping to improve sustainability within the construction sector and reduce its waste arising; which currently contributes one third of the UK’s total annual waste arising.
The Waste Protocol Project, a joint initiative between WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme), the Environment Agency (EA) and industry has launched its ninth Quality Protocol. The Pulverised Fuel Ash Quality Protocol (QP) sets end of waste criteria for the production and use of pulverised fuel ash (PFA) and furnace bottom ash (FBA) arising from the combustion of coal to be used in bound materials and grout applications. The QP will help divert a significant amount of what is the UK’s largest industrial waste-stream from landfill.
