Alupro seeks to save metal in Suffolk; Taylor helps Wigan on nappy contamination; Graduate group joins FCC; Shropshire initiative boosts street recycling
Alupro seeks to save metal in Suffolk
Suffolk Waste Partnership & Alupro have launched a campaign to improve the local metal packaging recycling rate
Residents will be encouraged to recycle food and drinks cans, aluminium wrapping foil and foil trays, empty aerosols and metal screw tops. Social media and outdoor advertising will both have roles in a six-week campaign,
Tom Giddings, executive director of Alupro, said: “From prior experience, we’re confident to say that the Suffolk Waste Partnership will see a rise in recycling rates and householders taking positive action as a result of the campaign.
“After all, metal recycles forever, so making a few small changes can add up to a big environmental difference. It’s a message that really resonates.”
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Taylor helps Wigan on nappy contamination
Waste container manufacture Egbert Taylor has awarded Wigan Council £1,136 from its Green Rewards sustainability initiative to promote reusable nappies and reduce nappy-related contamination.
Green Rewards enables local authorities to accrue points for every Taylor and Bigbelly product purchased, which are converted into funding for local environmental projects.
Wigan is using the money for Birth 2 Potty, a local organisation that seeks to promote the economic and sustainability benefits of using reusable nappies instead of disposable ones.
This followed Wigan discovering that its recycling waste stream was regularly being contaminated as people threw their disposable nappies in the wrong container.
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Graduate group joins FCC
FCC Environment has welcomed its latest intake of graduates to its training programme.
Five recruits have visited FCC’s energy-from-waste plants, waste transfer stations, household waste recycling centres and landfill operations to get a full understanding of the business.
The programme is open to all graduates with a minimum 2:1 degree, but the company is especially interested in those who graduated in engineering, chemistry, environmental studies, waste management, geography and business.
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Shropshire initiative boosts street recycling
The 23 recycle-on-the-go bins installed across Newport, Shropshire, town centre six weeks ago have led to more than 260kg of recycling being collected that would otherwise have been discarded.
Councillor Tim Nelson, who put money from his ward fund into the project, said: “The quality of the material that has been deposited for recycle is as good as from kerbside recycle.”
He said Veolia removed the material for sorting and as much as 130,000 single items a year could be diverted from landfill or incineration to be reused.
