Catch up on the latest news on Viridor and MediaCityUK; Rewards for Hackney households using reusable nappies; Recycling campaigns on the sides of Newark and Sherwood bin lorries; Partnership launched to recycle wetsuits; and Ceris Burns marks its 10-year anniversary.
Viridor and MediaCityUK renew partnership
Viridor has renewed its partnership with MediaCityUK under a new three-year contract.
Viridor, which has been providing waste and recycling services in the Salford home of the BBC and ITV since 2013, will be collecting an annual average of 210 tonnes of card/paper, 170 tonnes co-mingled mixed recycling and 800 tonnes of general waste.
Viridor Logistics, collections & fleet managing director Mark Woods said: “Viridor is proud to be continuing our waste management partnership with MediaCityUK for a further three years, our unique split-body vehicle enables us to maximise their recycling potential, maintain a landfill diversion solution whilst significantly reducing carbon emissions.”
Customer service manager, Rachel Williams, at MediaCityUK’s investor Peel Media said: “MediaCityUK is delighted to have awarded Viridor a renewal of the contract for our waste management and recycling service. Over the past five years Viridor has proved both innovative and proactive in its approach and we look forward to developing this relationship further.”
Ceris Burns marks 10-year anniversary with schools challenge
Ceris Burns (centre) talks about sustainability to young people
Public relations specialist for the waste management industry, Ceris Burns International (CBI), marked its 10-year anniversary by building awareness on sustainability in local schools.
Based in East Sussex, the PR firm invited children into their offices to learn about bats and build bat boxes, before challenging the children to write a short or report about the project, with prizes on offer.
Ceris Burns, CBI’s Managing Director, explained, “With our office in the stunning Ashdown Forest in East Sussex and sustainability a key issue for the industries we work with, a project that benefited the environment was a natural fit. We know the importance of grabbing our audience’s attention and so we chose bat box building as the activity; and it definitely worked.
“We also gave the children a short introduction to the different industries we work with and showed that there are many different options open to them when they get older. Who knows, we may have inspired the next generation to get involved in waste management!”
Hackney residents rewarded for using reusable nappies
Households participating in London borough of Hackney’s Recycling Rewards scheme can now earn points for reducing and reusing waste.
Residents can earn 2,000 points for using a real nappy voucher to buy reusable nappies and 400 points for ordering a No Junk Mail pack. Disposable nappies are very difficult to recycle and can take at least 200 years to decompose.
Hackney Council puts on monthly events with the Hackney Real Nappy Network to raise awareness about reusable nappies and offer £54 vouchers towards swapping disposable nappies for reusable ones.
Households can also earn points for donating textiles and using the free furniture reuse collection service. Residents can also buy a discounted compost bin from the council to cut food and garden waste.
Newark and Sherwood bin lorries get a new look
Newark and Sherwood district council, near Nottingham, is fitting their collection vehicles with graphic panels to promote their environmental campaigns – from fly-tipping to rubbish recycling.
Fifteen of the council’s refuse trucks have been fitted with Spedian vehicle graphics system that will allow for campaign posters to be switched easily without damage to the lorries.
The advertisements for the council’s fly-tipping hotline, bulky waste collection and garden waste services will be visible to the public as the lorries drive around the neighbourhoods.
Spedian panel on a Newark & Sherwood vehicle
Phil Hadfield, environment projects officer at Newark & Sherwood district council said: “It’s literally a case of ‘every little helps’. We are always trying to improve the quality of our recycling.”
Lawrence Craig, CEO of Spedian, said: “It is good to see that Newark & Sherwood District Council is taking advantage of the flexibility of the Spedian system to vary the messages it wants to send out.
“Refuse trucks are an ideal vehicle for carrying promotional messages for a council because by their very nature they visit almost every street, are highly visible, and stop frequently. It’s hard to miss them.”
Partnership searches for wetsuit recycler
Outdoor brand, Finisterre, is partnering with Exeter University to search for a wetsuit recycler to develop a fully recycled and recyclable wetsuit.
Finisterre claim that there are over 500,000 surfers in the United Kingdom who, on average, will replace their wetsuits once every two years – resulting in the equivalent of more than thirty London double decker buses being discarded every year.
Tom Kay, Finisterre founder, said: “There have been some great advances in eco wetsuits and the search for alternatives to petroleum based neoprene, but the real elephant in the room for the watersports industry is what to do with a wetsuit at the end of its functional life.
“It’s a massive, global problem that we need to address; in this day and age there has to be a solution, and this is what we’re committed to finding. In the UK alone, surfers are replacing their suits on average every two years, with no real idea about what to do with their old suits.”
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