With news on: NWH invests in Newcastle site; Wyre Forest flytipping campaign; Merseyside community funding, and; Aberdeenshire plastics trial.
£2m investment for NWH’s Newcastle site
NWH Group will launch its trade waste service for the north east of England with a £2 million investment in its Newcastle Factory Road site.
Craig Williams, NWH group operations director, with Andrew Turnbull, site manager in Newcastle
The expansion will allow NWH to extend its services for the office, industrial, construction, healthcare and leisure sectors, the company said.
The new three-acre site will support trade in Newcastle as well as catering for the wider north east area.
Allan Kane, General Manager of Waste Services at NWH Group, said: “The business has an appetite for success, and we will be investing heavily in new site infrastructure including a new building, waste processing equipment, vehicles and of course bins, so we are in the best possible position to support our customers’ waste recycling needs.”
Currently NWH operate a fleet of skips from its Newcastle site and plan to double their team of 24 staff by the end of the year.
Wyre Forest launches anti-flytipping campaign
Residents, businesses and landowners in Wyre Forest are being urged to back a new campaign Let’s SCRAP Flytipping.
(l-r) PCSO Luke Holloway, council officer Kimberley Poultney and Councillors Helen Dyke and John Thomas launch the flytipping campaign
The campaign – which launched in the district from today Monday (24 June) – aims to reduce the amount of waste being dumped by the roadside and at local beauty spots.
According to Wyre Forest there were more than 700 incidents of flytipping reported across the district last year, costing thousands of pounds of public funds to clear away.
Now Wyre Forest district council wants to encourage residents, businesses and landlords to prevent waste from getting into the hands of flytippers and report incidents so action can be taken against those responsible.
As the campaign gets under way one of the first tasks is to remind householders about their responsibility to check the credentials of anyone they may pay to take away household waste to ensure it is legally and responsibly disposed of.
Cabinet Member for Operational Services Councillor John Thomas said: “Our enforcement team investigates every incident to try and trace those responsible and bring them to book.
“If we have evidence or witness reports we can issue fixed penalty notices or refer cases to the courts which have additional powers to issue fines or even imprison those responsible, but to do this we need the public’s support.”
Mersey community groups offered £115,000 to tackle waste
Community groups have won £115,000 from the Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority (MRWA) and the Veolia Community Fund to help the Liverpool City Region reduce, re-use and recycle more.
Eleven organisations have been offered funding to boost reuse of goods in Merseyside
Eleven organisations were awarded the money which will fund a diverse set of programmes – from cookery clubs that cut food waste, a school uniform exchange and sewing and craft classes.
To be considered applicants had to tackle food, plastic, textiles or furniture, the four priority household waste materials identified by MRWA.
Councillor Tony Concepcion, Chairperson of MRWA, said: “The best Community Fund projects are those that help deliver re-use and waste reduction messages directly to local residents – using groups’ expertise and on-the-ground knowledge of particular areas and the people who live there.
Aberdeenshire trials rigid plastic scheme
Aberdeenshire council is beginning a pilot project at two Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) to offer rigid plastics recycling.
Rigid plastics include items such as laundry baskets, buckets, toys, plant pots and drainage pipes, the council said.
Working with the charity Wood Recyclability Scotland, it is hoped the trial will establish the feasibility of recycling this material locally and potentially allow facilities to be rolled out across Aberdeenshire.
Initially it will run at the Ellon and Peterhead HWRCs, which will have containers where rigid plastic items can be deposited.
Aberdeenshire council’s waste manager, Ros Baxter, said: “This one year trial will allow us to monitor the levels of contamination, tonnages being collected and to ascertain the viability of end processes and the user market to determine whether a recycling scheme on a wider basis is feasible.
“As well as being more environmentally friendly, recycling will cost the council far less than landfill thereby also providing a financial benefit. If successful this will be a true ‘win-win’.”
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