Aylesford Newsprint has celebrated recycling the 60,000th tonne of paper collected by Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council's kerbside green box scheme.
Cambridge City, Fenland and Huntingdonshire district councils have signed a five-year contract with Viridor for the sorting of recyclables. Viridor will process the councils' estimated 34,000 tonnes of recyclates at its Peterborough MRF.
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A hub of anaerobic digestion plants will fuel PDM Group's national food waste processing push as it looks overseas to capitalise in the UK. Katie Coyne reports
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Urbaser SA, Spain's largest contractor involved in the collection and disposal of municipal solid waste, is looking to diversify its operations into the UK market through its UK subsidiary, Urbaser.
WEEE recycler Midex has increased recycling rates by over 40% by offering a doorstep amnesty collection service. The WeeeCollect service has been running for just over a year and offers householders a free collection of all types of WEEE.
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