With news on: Clarity supports beach clean; Powerday recognised; HWRC opening in Peterborough; Gillmoss hits visitor milestone, and; South Cambs solar array.
Clarity supports Urban Beach Clean initiative
A wildlife charity has launched an ‘Urban Beach Clean’ initiative to tackle plastics pollution, with support from packaging waste compliance scheme Clarity Environmental.
Clarity is supporting the Urban Beach Clean initiative
Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) has launched the initiative to increase Urban Beach Cleans – local litter picks aimed at reducing plastic that makes its way from urban areas to the coastline, and then into the ocean.
According to the charity, much of the litter in the oceans actually comes from our cities, making its way to the sea through rivers, drains and waterways
People interested in getting involved can now go online at notwhalefood.com/urban-beach-clean to source information and advice on running their own cleans with friends, neighbours or colleagues, or at school or university.
David Honcoop, managing director at Clarity Environmental, said: “Having worked within the packaging industry since the start of our business, it means a lot to be supporting WDC with a campaign that is aimed at protecting our oceans and marine life from the impacts of plastic pollution.”
Powerday named ‘West London Company of the Year’
Powerday has been named the West London Company of the Year at the West London Business Awards 2019 held earlier this month.
Powerday picked up the prize at the West London Business Awards
Alongside this, Powerday scooped the Park Royal Business of the Year award and followed that with also winning the Customer Corporate Partnership of the Year, which featured Westfield London and Allied Irish Bank (GB) as the shortlisted companies.
Commenting after the awards, Edward Crossan, vice-chairman of Powerday, said: “This has been an excellent night for Powerday to be recognised amongst everyone here tonight is something special.
“The scale of business happening in West London is staggering with the development at Old Oak Common, the Expansion of Heathrow, the complete re generation of the Wembley area not to mention Crossrail and HS2 it’s a great place to do business”.
Powerday operates the largest Materials Recycling Facilities in Southern England from its sites in Willesden Junction and Enfield. Combined, these MRFs are licensed to processes just under two million tonnes of waste each year.
Peterborough opens Fengate HWRC
A new Household Waste Recycling Centre has opened in Peterborough, which the council says will mark a ‘new dawn’ for recycling.
Members of Peterborough council are shown around the FCC recycling centre ahead of its opening this month
The new facility is in Fengate next door to an existing energy from waste plant. It is more than double the size of a previous facility in Dogsthorpe which has now closed.
The new site has roof cover, improved vehicle access and will be easier for people to use and provide more space for residential waste and recycling.
Waste management company FCC Environment has designed and built the facility and will manage it for the next ten years.
Councillor Marco Cereste, cabinet member for waste and street scene, said: “The investment we have made in the new Household Recycling Centre demonstrates our commitment to improving facilities in the city and boosting the amount we can recycle.
“It’s a big improvement on the current facility, which is not sufficient to cope with the volumes of waste generated at present by residents, let alone in the next 20 years as our city grows.
“Currently 69% of the waste which ends up at the Household recycling Centre in Dogsthorpe is recycled but we will be looking to push that well above 70 per cent once the new site opens.”
Visitor landmark for Gillmoss MRF
Merseyside’s Recycling Discovery Centre at Gillmoss, Liverpool, has reached a landmark by welcoming its 50,000th visitor.
Veolia’s Gillmoss MRF
The Centre’s education programme, which began in 2009, celebrated reaching the milestone with children from Millbrook Primary School, Knowsley.
Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority (MRWA) and its contractor resource management company Veolia, who operate Gillmoss Recycling Discovery Centre in Liverpool, have been visited by groups from all over Merseyside and Halton in the last 10 years.
The centre offers a unique visitor experience, designed to show visitors the journey that waste and recycling takes after being collected from homes in Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and Wirral. Groups are treated to a tour of the Materials Recovery Facility where they can see how recycling is processed using various techniques and technology.
Councillor Tony Concepcion, chairperson of MRWA, said: “ I’m delighted to see that so many people have taken an interest in our service, learning more about what happens to our waste and recycling after it’s collected from homes.”
South Cambs goes solar
Solar panels are being installed on top of South Cambridgeshire district council’s waste depot – which will generate a quarter of all the electricity the building uses.
Chair of South Cambridgeshire district council’s Climate and Environment Advisory Committee, Cllr Pippa Heylings with one of the new solar panels
The installation is the latest stage in the Council’s efforts to be “green to the core” and will deliver renewable energy, reduce costs and cut carbon emissions.
Solar panels are being mounted on the roof of the building at Waterbeach that is home to the Greater Cambridge Shared Waste Service, a partnership between South Cambridgeshire District and Cambridge City Councils.
The installation will generate 19,121 kilowatt hours per year of energy savings, the councils say, and is expected to pay for itself within eight years.
It will take advantage of the last of the Government’s feed-in tariff, which is a payment to an energy user for the renewable electricity they generate. It will provide income to the Council for 20 years. The project is being organised by Bouygues Energies and Services.
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