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With incineration and landfill charges remaining high a WRAP report confirms recycling should be the first option for local authorities to look at in dealing with waste. The third annual Gate Fees Report from WRAP underlines the financial and environmental benefits of recycling or composting wastes wherever possible.
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) is today (20th July 2010) launching a new Mixed Plastics Loan Fund worth £2million to boost reprocessing in the UK of plastics like yoghurt pots, margarine tubs and rigid plastic food trays.
Research conducted by WRAP - the organisation charged with supporting businesses and consumers in resource efficiency - reveals that there is much to do to get consumers to choose “green products” when purchasing electrical items.
InSource Energy has marked the start of work on Wales’s first commercial-scale anaerobic digestion plant at Premier Foods Plc’s RF Brookes ready meals factory in Rogerstone, Newport with a ceremony held today (Wednesday July 7th) attended by Jane Davidson AM, Minister for Environment in Wales.
The new coalition Government showed its support for Courtauld Commitment 2 yesterday when new Environment Minister, Lord Henley, attended the inaugural meeting of signatories in London.
Grants and funded business development support worth nearly £2 million will enable businesses in the West Midlands to divert an additional 2 million tonnes of commercial and industrial (C&I) waste from landfill by 2014.
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) today launched Designing out Waste: a design team guide for civil engineering available to download free from www.wrap.org.uk/designingoutwaste and companion tool www.wrap.org.uk/dowtce
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Chairman, Peter Stone, today highlighted how hard-pressed Local Authorities could save millions through more partnership working in delivering waste services.
A WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) supported £3m Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant has opened on a Staffordshire farm. The plant will supply 1.3MW per year of renewable energy to the National Grid - enough to power more than 1,300 homes and businesses.
The eagerly-anticipated results of a project to support the UK wine sector to reduce its glass waste and carbon emissions are unveiled today.
