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18/11/09 - Welcome to our new brand
16/10/09 - Pioneering council rewards keen recyclers
16/10/09 - Multimillion pound investment into Northwest construction industry
16/10/09 - World - climate change "speeding toward irreversible tipping points"
16/10/09 - Gone to Waste: how Britain "burns money by dumping and incinerating resources"
16/10/09 - Paper - reduced supply and increased competition
16/10/09 - £80m in innovative technologies investment announced
16/10/09 - University of Bradford Wins Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development Award
11/09/09 - Unique Leeds low carbon development takes shape
11/09/09 - The Yorkshire & Humber School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) is opening in September!
11/09/09 - Beeley Wood’s blue-chip tenant to produce Quality Recycled Aggregates
11/09/09 - Study reviews impact on health of emissions to air from municipal waste incinerators
11/09/09 - Source separation trends (Biocycle article)
11/09/09 - 2009 Innovation Awards to Celebrate the Pioneers in the Clean Tech Revolution
11/09/09 - Last Chance For Green Research Fund
21/08/09 - Recyclate Recovery - an analysis of recycling schemes
21/08/09 - Retail trials could signal a 'reusables revolution'
21/08/09 - Dairy industry gets pat on the back for green initiative
21/08/09 - Leeds recycling rates continue to rise
21/08/09 - Barnsley & Rotherham Chamber supports local recycling initiative to support children's hospices
21/08/09 - Towards Zero Waste Funding Announced
21/08/09 - Innovator/10 - the third Yorkshire and Humber Innovation Awards
3/07/09 - 4Recycing signs up at Beeley Wood
3/07/09 - UK public interest in low carbon living shows signs of growth
3/07/09 - NEW MINISTERS FOR SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES
3/07/09 - Consumer attitudes to the use of recycled materials in electrical and electronic products
3/07/09 - Carbon Trust expands interest-free loans
5/06/09 - Feeling the Crunch?
5/06/09 - Best Practice Guidance for the Collection and Treatment of WEEE
5/06/09 - Beatson Clark to up recycled cullet use after contract win
15/05/09 - Calling all companies in the retail supply chain
15/05/09 - Train to Gain Enhancement Fund
15/05/09 - Yorkshire's Shoppers Back Green Business Growth
15/05/09 - 'The No-Nonsense Guide to Finance for High Growth and Innovative Businesses'
15/05/09 - Sustainability Live - dont forget to visit us on stand K43
15/05/09 - Carbon Reduction Committment – Impact on SME’s in the Recycling Sector
24/04/09 - UK packaging recycling rates hit new high
24/04/09 - Consultation on revised waste exemptions from environmental permitting
24/04/09 - Go WILD for World Environment Day!
16/04/09 - New regulations for batteries
15/04/09 - Defra announces body to help businesses and communities go green
15/04/09 - This year's Easter eggs delivering environmental benefits
15/04/09 - More brown bins for garden waste
15/04/09 - £200m waste plant goes green to turn rubbish into electricity
15/04/09 - SEPA supports reuse of waste paints in new regulatory position
15/04/09 - Recycle appeal is stepping up a gear
15/04/09 - Waste and recycling industry injury rates improve - but best yet to come
20/03/09 - Recycling scheme introduced in town centre to cut business waste
20/03/09 - 2009 Waste Protocols Project Materials Selection
20/03/09 - Government Resource Efficiency Campaign
20/03/09 - Earn points from recycling scheme
20/03/09 - Knock, Knock: it's the council bin snoops
20/03/09 - Yorkshire Plastics Recycler Is UK success with REY Investment
6/03/09 - Environment Agency Permit granted at Beeley Wood
6/03/09 - Recycle, Record, Reward
6/03/09 - Electric Bin Lorry Not A Rubbish Idea
6/03/09 - Grants To Grow Small Businesses
6/03/09 - Support available to win Olympic contract opportunities!
20/02/09 - £100m eco rail sleeper deal
20/02/09 - Envirowise introduces online eco-design tool
19/02/09 - Loan enables eco-construction products firm to build a better future
19/02/09 - $400bn demand for green spending
12/02/09 - Futurebuilders Small Organisation Tender Fund
12/02/09 - Government appoints Batteries Enforcement Authority
12/02/09 - Portsmouth sees energy plant proposal as a time of waste
30/01/09 - Design Futures unveils details of packaging surgeries
30/01/09 - Launch of new flat glass quality protocol
29/01/09 - Major regeneration blueprint revealed
29/01/09 - The Carbon Trust announces the expansion of its energy-efficiency loans scheme to small businesses.
16/01/09 - 'Pay as you throw' household waste trial shunned by councils
16/01/09 - Richmondshire recycling rate shows big increase
16/01/09 - Recycling trial boards National Express East Coast trains
16/01/09 - Planning approved for Yorkshire Recycling Village
16/01/09 - BREW Centre Resource Efficiency Funding
16/01/09 - DIUS Innovation for Sustainability Competition
16/01/09 - REY is Moving!
9/01/09 - Yorkshire Forward green careers software for schools
9/01/09 - APSRG Waste Reduction Government Response Briefing
9/01/09 - Quintain starts underground waste collection at Wembley City
9/01/09 - Research shows tyre-derived fuel has NO adverse effect on cement kiln emissions
9/01/09 - Leeds students ban bottled water
9/01/09 - Recycling move for office furniture firm
9/01/09 - DIUS Innovation for Sustainability Competition
19/12/08 - Envirowise presents four free cost cutting workshops
19/12/08 - Belgium - beer packaging LCA study challenges preconceptions
19/12/08 - Reinventing the wheel: sustainable technology and discontinued research
19/12/08 - BBC survey finds support for recycling pay as you throw
19/12/08 - 20 things you didn't know about recycling
25/11/08 - Market prices and the credit crunch
21/11/08 - Nampak signs 'landmark' milk bottle recyclate deal
21/11/08 - New power station will transform waste into energy
21/11/08 - Yorkshire Forward Innovator/09 Awards
21/11/08 - Brown Strikes Green Deals
21/11/08 - South Yorkshire councils award £40m recycling centre contract to WRG
21/11/08 - Storm In A Teacup?
21/11/08 - Models help promote North Yorkshire recycling scheme
21/11/08 - Environment Agency Statement
21/11/08 - Sustainable City Awards
6/11/08 - Remember, remember the 1st of November
6/11/08 - Solutions for Business package
5/11/08 - Cracking the case of recycled gadgets
5/11/08 - The Death of Recycling
5/11/08 - Plastic-munching bugs turn waste bottles into cash
5/11/08 - Plasterboard recycling making excellent progress, WRAP reveals
5/11/08 - WRAP launches two new funding sources for waste and recycling sector
24/10/08 - Firms Could Slash Emissions By Ditching Paper Payslips
24/10/08 - Minima Innovations in Waste Management
24/10/08 - Awards for Excellence in Recycling and Waste Management
24/10/08 - Only nine EU Member-States met timetable for battery directive
24/10/08 - New framework for waste management approved
17/10/08 - Residents get green message
17/10/08 - Glass industry faces high quality cullet shortage
17/10/08 - WRAP Glass Report
17/10/08 - A guide to packaging eco-design from Envirowise/INCPEN
17/10/08 - Cooking Up A Recipe To Cut Food Waste
17/10/08 - £10m up for grabs for green materials research
10/10/08 - World - companies 'need green directors'
10/10/08 - WRAP calls for partners for action on food waste
10/10/08 - City ‘to recycle half its rubbish’
10/10/08 - Rural rounds hope on recycling
10/10/08 - Green drive will see every home get recycling bins for food scraps
26/09/08 - Quality protocol for the production of pulverised fuel ash (PFA) and furnace bottom ash (FBA)
26/09/08 - HSE issues report on occupational noise exposure re simulated roadside collection of recyclable glass
26/09/08 - Recycling centre throws its doors open
10/09/08 - ReMaDe Network on the Lookout for New Members
10/09/08 - City recycling at record rate
10/09/08 - UK Plays Recycling Catchup
10/09/08 - ODA to recycle 90% of Olympic Park building waste
10/09/08 - DEW Programme of site visits
6/08/08 - Old Bear Brewery bottles it in-house
6/08/08 - Mobile phone owners hopeless at recycling
6/08/08 - Easy to go green at new recycling centre
6/08/08 - Defra Holds Out Hope for 50% European Recycling Target
6/08/08 - School recycling an "easy-win"
6/08/08 - WRAP Tender Opportunities
6/08/08 - Recycling ethos helps small companies
6/08/08 - DEW Newsletter
25/07/08 - RAY will soon become REY, Resource Efficiency Yorkshire
18/07/08 - MORE POSITIVES THAN NEGATIVES
18/07/08 - Environment Agency Validates 250m Windrow Buffer Zone
18/07/08 - Increased beverage cartons recycling in Europe
18/07/08 - Green goods to come to the front of Britain's shelves
11/07/08 - Cardboard Recycling Amenities now available throughout Richmondshire
11/07/08 - Envirowise Indicator
11/07/08 - Celebrating 10 Years of Rewarding Excellence - Enter Now
11/07/08 - Recycling in the spotlight for scientific youngsters
11/07/08 - New recycling site for Harrogate?
11/07/08 - Local authorities press for landfill tax rebate
11/07/08 - Campaign for Real Recycling launches recycling collection hierarchy
11/07/08 - New guidance to help recycling of small-scale construction waste
27/06/08 - 13,700 tonnes plastic available from regional farms
27/06/08 - Eco heroes take action
27/06/08 - Waste pilots: draft guidance published
27/06/08 - Weekly refuse collection....'waiting for riots in the streets'
27/06/08 - Recycling centre is planned for Bradford
27/06/08 - It's all change for recycling
13/06/08 - New research signals the way for household plastics to be recycled
13/06/08 - England’s household waste recycling rate hits 33%
6/06/08 - Waste Plasterboard Gets A New Lease Of Life
6/06/08 - Demand for ‘white goods’
30/05/08 - Meet the Buyers
30/05/08 - £310m in PFI credits for waste schemes
30/05/08 - Waste not, want not in today's business world
30/05/08 - ‘First’ rHDPE milk bottle wins award
20/05/08 - Yorkshire Air Ambulance BAG IT UP Bra Campaign!
20/05/08 - Recyclet Ltd expands the region’s plasterboard recycling capacity
15/05/08 - Beverage Companies Adopt Carbon Action Plan
15/05/08 - WRAP Launches Site Waste Management Plan Template
15/05/08 - Councils should reward for recycling, says report
15/05/08 - Top Guns Slash Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Police Firing Range
15/05/08 - How green are we? New figures show Britons back recycling
15/05/08 - WRAP Capital Grant Competition: Construction Waste Recycling Infrastructure
15/05/08 - Social Enterprise Waste Management Opportunity
2/05/08 - Call for more emphasis on recycling
2/05/08 - Resource Awards 2008
2/05/08 - Government breaks bag promise, says retailer
2/05/08 - Defra releases preliminary food waste trial figures
2/05/08 - "Work to be done" to develop recycling exports
2/05/08 - The Envirowise Publications Wizard
2/05/08 - Waste wood - the untapped resource for Biomass fuel
2/05/08 - Visit a composting operation
18/04/08 - WRAP Provides Funding for Major Plasterboard Recycling Facility
18/04/08 - Recycling efforts praised... but could do better
18/04/08 - Bin taxes arrive... with a £40 charge for families
18/04/08 - Job Opportunity
18/04/08 - UK academic urges industry to act on waste issue
18/04/08 - New Y&H recycling data
18/04/08 - WRAP’s Organics Capital Grant Programme VI has been launched
18/04/08 - DELIVERING EXCELLENCE IN WASTE
4/04/08 - RAY Holds 2 Successful Events in One Day
14/03/08 - ReMaDe Network UK Launches its New Website
14/03/08 - Compost can turn agricultural soils into a carbon sink, thus protecting against climate change
14/03/08 - Have we green leaders within the Y&H recycling sector??
14/03/08 - Council housing company slashes waste by recycling
7/03/08 - Tesco to reward recycling
7/03/08 - Rubbish lessons please pupils
7/03/08 - China shuts the door on domestic flexible plastic
7/03/08 - Xerox saves US$2bn as it cuts down on waste
29/02/08 - Village fights recycling bid
29/02/08 - Wine aplenty but no bottles
29/02/08 - Anger over 'recycling' waste burned or dumped
29/02/08 - Schools challenged to recycle old directories
29/02/08 - TEG wins Rushlight Waste Composting Award
22/02/08 - Nike Releases Shoe Made From Manufacturing Waste
22/02/08 - Taxpayers face £2bn waste bill
22/02/08 - Big incinerator claim 'rubbish'
22/02/08 - Firm seeks site for first UK nappy recycling plant
22/02/08 - Composting "Hub & Cluster"
15/02/08 - Tree-mendous recycling plan
15/02/08 - Job Opportunity
15/02/08 - Recycling reminder is a click away
15/02/08 - UK paper industry beats government recycling targets
15/02/08 - Funding aids increased plasterboard recycling
15/02/08 - Recycling is a glass act
15/02/08 - New packaging waste recycling targets will deliver greater carbon benefits
12/02/08 - ******STOP PRESS******
8/02/08 - Householders to face £130 charge if they fail to recycle
8/02/08 - Rubbish collection row reignited
8/02/08 - Emissions from household waste forecast to fall
8/02/08 - Four left in race for North Yorkshire waste contract
8/02/08 - Opportunities for environmental companies in your region
8/02/08 - Save Money Through Waste Reduction!
8/02/08 - Soils in the Developed Landscape
1/02/08 - UK needs to spend £9 billion on recycling and incineration infrastructure
1/02/08 - WRAP proposes variable VAT to boost recycled materials markets
1/02/08 - Government aims to understand and encourage green behaviour with new framework
1/02/08 - Waste firm picks up a 3-year deal
1/02/08 - Rixonway celebrate recycling kitchens
1/02/08 - Country's biggest clothing recycling campaign launched
1/02/08 - Time once again to find our rural heroes
11/01/08 - Retail Recycling Project in North Yorkshire Offers Free Recycling Service
11/01/08 - Government consults on batteries recycling
11/01/08 - Yorkshire recycled architecture project is nominated for national award
18/12/07 - Proving beer and recycling go together
18/12/07 - Defence firm VT is favourite for £700m Wakefield PFI contract.
18/12/07 - How we got recycling all mixed up
18/12/07 - Iconic Coke bottle slims down to save waste
18/12/07 - Brown backs plastic bag ban
18/12/07 - Major initiative to aid packaging recycling
18/12/07 - Approach opportunities with care suggests WRAP's plastic market report
18/12/07 - Farmers' union backs good practice guide on farm plastic waste to reduce landfill
18/12/07 - Merry Christmas from RAY
27/11/07 - Selby council re-thinks waste scheme
27/11/07 - 10,000 homes will get new green bins
27/11/07 - Council warns of climate change impact on district
27/11/07 - Municipal recycling smashes the 30% barrier
27/11/07 - RECYCLING TRIAL ROARS INTO ACTION
27/11/07 - Waste chiefs beat recycling targets
27/11/07 - Cobra beer hit with £25k recycling fine
7/11/07 - ******STOP PRESS******
6/11/07 - NCSL Sustainable Schools Grant Scheme
6/11/07 - Bin spy teams on the way
6/11/07 - New architecture project is a load of rubbish!
2/11/07 - Tesco and the Carbon Trust partner to map carbon footprint of 30 products
2/11/07 - Eco-park given planning consent - Urban Mines calls for Registrations of Interest
2/11/07 - Waste incentives decision `step in the right direction`
2/11/07 - Nationwide food waste campaign kicks off
2/11/07 - Big Hannah reduces museum's catering waste
2/11/07 - £750,000 wood recycling plant opens in Yorkshire
31/10/07 - Calls for plastic wash plant investment
25/10/07 - JOIN THOSE AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF SUSTAINABILITY
24/10/07 - WRAP Support Scheme to Provide Recycling Services to Businesses
19/10/07 - Duraweld Pioneers New Recycling Initiative and Launches Smart New Brand
19/10/07 - British Glass voices "deep concern" over MRF trend
19/10/07 - Defra to get £4 billion a year by 2010
19/10/07 - Battery recycling trial is an 'inspiration'
19/10/07 - Polymer Recyclers return scrap rubbers to higher value uses
19/10/07 - ARE YOU BOARD STUPID?
16/10/07 - Tees Valley Businesses urged to 'wise up' to new waste obligations
9/10/07 - RECYCLING ADVICE FOR SMEs IN YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER
8/10/07 - Stop Press.....Resource Efficiency Theatre Debuting at Enviroenergy Conference on 18th October
5/10/07 - New Technology could Convert More Waste into Aggregate.
5/10/07 - Defence Firm Shortlisted for Wakefield PFI Contract.
5/10/07 - Hull finds a greener way to recycle
5/10/07 - Bulk imports of wine soar - good news for recycling
5/10/07 - NQA calls on public sector to drive sustainable procurement through the supply chain
5/10/07 - Andy Hartley: Recycling saves your pocket and the planet
3/10/07 - Community Composting Workshops, Sheffield Monday 8 October 2007
3/10/07 - Benefits of Composting to Agriculture
3/10/07 - RAY offers planning consultancy support to expand the capacity for organic waste processing in Yorkshire & Humber
3/10/07 - RAY offers PAS100 support for composters in Yorkshire and the Humber
3/10/07 - Sustainable soils - opportunity for you!
3/10/07 - Improve your compost sales through understanding the basics of soil & plant health
14/09/07 - £65 million PFI deal will help North Yorkshire reduce landfill waste by over three-quarters
14/09/07 - Green Employers 'Stop at Recycling'
14/09/07 - Kirklees Rolls Out Fortnightly Collections
14/09/07 - Equipment for Disabled Wanted for Recycling
14/09/07 - Lightweight Bottles to Save Glass Packaging
14/09/07 - Big Push to Recycle Plastic
14/09/07 - World - waste reduction is top environmental concern for manufacturers globally
14/09/07 - Environment Agency reminder as landfill changes deadline approaches
14/09/07 - September Printing Offer
7/09/07 - Recycle Now Urges Holiday Makers to Get on-Board and Recycle their Brochures
7/09/07 - 'Many' Support Pay-As-You-Throw
7/09/07 - Microsoft Test Recycling Scheme
7/09/07 - Wash and Squash for Green Future
7/09/07 - WEEE Recycling Deals for Yorkshire
7/09/07 - ASDA LAUNCHES RECYCLED STATIONERY WITH HELP FROM RAY
7/09/07 - Leeds City Council Procurement Unit Provision of Trade Waste Collection/Disposal Service and Recycling Services
5/09/07 - WRAP Training Courses
5/09/07 - Quality assurance document sets standards for recovered paper
5/09/07 - Co-ordinator for Recycling & Waste Management Provision
21/08/07 - Rural Development Plan for England
17/08/07 - BREW Centre Local Authority Trade Waste Recycling Survey
17/08/07 - Manchester's 'world class' facility gets planning approval
17/08/07 - New Partnership Sees Waste Recycling Rocket Ninety Per Cent
17/08/07 - Recycling Ridiculed as Plastic Fails to Shape Up
17/08/07 - Recycling of Plastic Windows Gains Momentum
17/08/07 - Push for More Recycling Bins in Public Places
17/08/07 - Recycling at Home Becoming the Norm
17/08/07 - Grant of £40,000 Helps Window Glass Recycler Improve Rates
13/08/07 - £5 million MRF opens in Leeds
13/08/07 - Grant Aid Aims to Boost Recycling
13/08/07 - Defra Report Reveals State of the Nation's Waste Recycling
13/08/07 - Plastics Not Easy to Separate from WEEE, Finds Research
13/08/07 - Cartons Join List of Products for Recycling
13/08/07 - Leeds to Recycle Drinks Cartons
13/08/07 - Plan to Tackle Landfilling of Construction Waste
13/08/07 - Quality Key To Improving UK’s Recycling Infrastructure, Says WRAP
13/08/07 - New and improved website offers businesses waste advice
6/08/07 - Bid to boost recycling rates using litter bins
6/08/07 - Defra to create three "zero waste" areas
6/08/07 - New inquiry announced: Waste Strategy for England 2007
6/08/07 - New technologies catalogue available
6/08/07 - Leeds renew green waste contract for Yorwaste
6/08/07 - Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Waste
6/08/07 - WRAP Identifies Opportunities for Tyre - derived Steel and Fibre
6/08/07 - Cadge-IT: Putting Old Gadgets to Use Can be Easy, Fun and Environmentally Friendly
6/08/07 - Government Signals Support for Textile Recycling
13/07/07 - Awards For Excellence 2007
12/07/07 - Most modern recycling centre opens in Hull
12/07/07 - Christmas card recycling success
12/07/07 - Joan Ruddock confirmed as recycling minister
12/07/07 - Bradford favours autoclave for waste contract
12/07/07 - Defra’s proposals for the new local government performance framework
12/07/07 - Hilary Benn sets out vision for local authorities on the environment
12/07/07 - UK - new searchable online compost suppliers database
12/07/07 - IKEA first UK retailer to ban plastic bags
12/07/07 - Only 2% of consumers aware of WEEE changes
12/07/07 - Green Waste Compost a Yorkshire & Humber Products Directory
12/07/07 - Project Call - Demonstration of Markets for Green Waste Compost
29/06/07 - Consultation on Implementation Proposals for the Carbon Reduction Commitment
29/06/07 - New European R&D Support Programme
28/06/07 - RAY offers planning consultancy support to expand the capacity for organic waste processing in Yorkshire & Humber
28/06/07 - Street Sweeping Collection & Recycling Tender
28/06/07 - Producers pledge to reduce packaging
28/06/07 - Laurence's 'can do' message
28/06/07 - Plastic bottle recycling increasing but more still to do
28/06/07 - CIWM president in warning over WEEE exports
22/06/07 - Miliband unveils CO2 calculator
22/06/07 - Textile recyclers unite to tackle textile crime
22/06/07 - Langthwaite Business Park Recycling Point
22/06/07 - Recycled civic amenity site opens in Hull
22/06/07 - Yorkshire Forward invests £10 million in regional bank for the third sector
15/06/07 - Entry call to Awards for Excellence
15/06/07 - Packaging recycling targets set for increase
15/06/07 - Councils asked to help tackle business waste
15/06/07 - Community recyclers urged to be
15/06/07 - 92% of LAs now offer plastic bottle recycling
15/06/07 - Greenhouse gas pledge to bring £4bn windfall
15/06/07 - Report backs separate food and garden waste collections
7/06/07 - National Award for Friends of St Nicholas Fields
7/06/07 - MP calls for research into recycling contamination
7/06/07 - Compost producers celebrate further industry growth
7/06/07 - WRAP launches results of large-scale HDPE recycling trial
7/06/07 - Biodegradable milk bottles
7/06/07 - LATS review to look at home composting and council targets
7/06/07 - Which? composting guide
7/06/07 - Century of plastics explored in new exhibition
7/06/07 - Project Manager Vacancy RAY
25/05/07 - Ministers set out plan for waste
25/05/07 - "Waste busters" drive up recycling in East Sussex
25/05/07 - PAS standards launched for tyre reycling industy
25/05/07 - Positive response to building materials reuse centre
25/05/07 - The Campaign for Real Recycling
25/05/07 - Food Waste Composting at Calderdale School
25/05/07 - Environmental Awards For Businesses, THE TIDY BUSINESS AWARDS SCHEME:
25/05/07 - Offer for UK organisations with ideas for reuse/remanufacturing
25/05/07 - Sale Of 140 Litre Wheeled Bins
25/05/07 - England - waste strategy launched
11/05/07 - Regional network will allow glaziers to recycle their waste
11/05/07 - ALTERNATE WEEKLY COLLECTION
11/05/07 - Trial gives full bill of health to recycled milk bottles (10.05.07)
10/05/07 - Rising demand for compost from landscape gardeners
3/05/07 - Century of plastics explored in new exhibition
3/05/07 - Campaign launched to help cut C02 emissions
3/05/07 - RECYCLING RATES ROCKET BY 30% WHEN COUNCILS SWITCH TO AWC SAYS LGA REPORT
3/05/07 - Prime Minister expresses doubts on fortnightly collections
3/05/07 - Packaging firm fined £50,000 for failing to recycle
3/05/07 - Biffa to double waste soil capacity with clinic
27/04/07 - Bradford builds on market waste recycling initiative
27/04/07 - £50m deal agreed for York recycling and waste services
27/04/07 - Leeds, and Sheffield among leading UK recyclers 2005-6
27/04/07 - Defra highlights need for substantial rise in recycling
27/04/07 - Tesco aims to cut own brand packaging by 25%
27/04/07 - WRAP trials to focus on SMEs
27/04/07 - Recycled materials may become bricks of the future
27/04/07 - WEEE Electronics Recyclers join forces.
27/04/07 - Recycle at Work
27/04/07 - TRIAL TO ESTABLISH WEEE PROTOCOLS
27/04/07 - COMPOST AWARENESS WEEK
27/04/07 - Branson challenges U.S. to fight global warming
27/04/07 - Enviro-Tech News (UK) Issue 97
27/04/07 - Yorkshire & Humber Regional Energy Forum
27/04/07 - Transforming Design and Manufacture in the North
19/04/07 - Environmental Enterprise Hub Manager
19/04/07 - Belgium - approach to recycling could be a lesson for Britain
19/04/07 - English waste strategy delayed until May
19/04/07 - Corus increases price for recycled steel cans
19/04/07 - Councils support business recycling
19/04/07 - LAs accused of heavy handed approach
19/04/07 - Lean recycling outfits threaten big companies
30/03/07 - Canada - kitchen waste starts in Peel: largest programme roll-out to date
30/03/07 - ACR+ drives European Cities and Regions towards waste prevention actions
29/03/07 - Don't WASTE this Opportunity - Final Chance to Enrol
29/03/07 - Carbon footprint of products to be displayed on label package
29/03/07 - Landfill Tax rise hailed as "massive incentive" to recycle
29/03/07 - Quality Protocol published for composting industry
29/03/07 - Recycled plastic milk bottles hailed a success
29/03/07 - Reaction to campaign welcomed
22/03/07 - Brown announces Landfill Tax rise to boost recycling (21.03.07)
21/03/07 - Compost leads the way with first Quality Protocol
20/03/07 - No adverse health impacts from alternate weekly collections
15/03/07 - First ever recycling plant to turn used plastic bottles back into food packaging
15/03/07 - Campaign calls for urgent recycling review
15/03/07 - WRAP to launch construction waste recycling trial
13/03/07 - New Kerbside Contract in Doncaster
13/03/07 - Glass scheme to push Kirklees recycling
13/03/07 - Campaign for Real Recycling Launched
13/03/07 - WRAP introduces new real nappy resources for healthcare professionals and nappy laundries
13/03/07 - Focus/Do it All
13/03/07 - UK Government sustainable procurement action plan launched
13/03/07 - Trials show economic feasibility of plasterboard recycling
12/03/07 - Yorkshire Garden Show
9/03/07 - 37 WEEE compliance schemes approved
9/03/07 - WRAP Job Opportunity in Yorkshire & Humber
9/03/07 - WhyWaste changing the shape of business waste in Yorkshire and Humberside
1/03/07 - New website launches to help companies meet packaging regulations
1/03/07 - MEPs vote to cut waste mountain
1/03/07 - UK retailers sign up to cut the environmental impact of carrier bags
1/03/07 - A shared vision, a shared responsibility - Miliband
1/03/07 - UK - waste plasterboard have viable recovery options
27/02/07 - Barnsley Council asks for expressions of interest in providing composting facilities for biodegradable waste deadline 7th March 2007.
27/02/07 - Free PAS 100 support for composters in Yorkshire and the Humber
27/02/07 - Free design services for composters in Yorkshire and the Humber
27/02/07 - Places available at RAY's recycling court at the Yorkshire Garden Show
23/02/07 - New Scrapstore for Leeds
23/02/07 - Asda return to "traditional" values to cut waste.
23/02/07 - 2012 Olympics venues set 20% recycled content target.
15/02/07 - New Insights regarding the Acceptability of Waste as a Road Construction Material
2/02/07 - People need incentives to bring green habits to work
2/02/07 - Waste industry must adapt to climate change
2/02/07 - London 'top of urban recyclers'
2/02/07 - WRAP offers free seminars for local authorities wanting to improve plastic bottle recycling rates
2/02/07 - Urban Mines reflects on bioplastics
26/01/07 - UK - Batteries LCA study shows net environmental benefit of recycling vs disposal
24/01/07 - Airedale Computer Recycling host a visit by Vuli Mkandla, founder and director of registered charity
17/01/07 - Crowberry Consulting reports sustainable consumption.
17/01/07 - Free plastics seminars for local authorities
16/01/07 - Report Sets Out Growing Green Future In Yorkshire And Humber
16/01/07 - RAY Gets Back to Nature
9/01/07 - Teesdale
9/01/07 - Top recycler puts success down to simplicity
9/01/07 - Supermarket launches nationwide in-store recycling schemes
9/01/07 - Greener New Year's Resolutions
9/01/07 - Measures to help tackle climate change have been unveiled by the Government
8/01/07 - Car companies pick up costs of scrapping and recycling
4/01/07 - Opportunity to tender for NHS WEE Contract
21/12/06 - RAY Buy Recycled Site is Now Live
15/12/06 - Young Peoples Enterprise Forum Community Challenge
5/12/06 - ORG068 WRAP Capital Support Programme V now open - deadline 6th February 2007
5/12/06 - Free design services for composters in Yorkshire and the Humber
5/12/06 - Places available at RAY's recycling court at the Yorkshire Garden Show
5/12/06 - Brownfield regeneration projects using PAS 100 compost
24/11/06 - Is This The Recycling Capital Of Britain?
24/11/06 - PM's Advisor Hails Recycling As Climate Change Action
24/11/06 - Stern Review Could Boost Waste Industry
24/11/06 - The Community Waste Information Centre (CWIC)
24/11/06 - Compost Doctors
24/11/06 - Saturday November 25th 2006 is Buy Nothing Day
24/11/06 - Steel Packaging Recycling: a growing success
24/11/06 - New RAY Brownfield Regeneration Division
3/11/06 - Award winning social enterprise comes to town
3/11/06 - Jobs created at Creation Recycling Ltd
3/11/06 - Spare a Tree this Christmas
27/10/06 - Recycling targets 'are being met'
27/10/06 - Council launches light bulb scheme
27/10/06 - Students Given Recycling Advice
27/10/06 - Straight Rewarded With Prestigious Entrepreneur Title
27/10/06 - Yorkshire And Humber Businesses Can Reduce Before They Recycle
10/10/06 - Ray Launch Online Recycling Tool
10/10/06 - Waste Prevention Toolkit Launched On The Web For Local Authorities
10/10/06 - Increasing And Improving Recycling Services To Small And Medium Enterprises - SME Recycling Demonstration Trials
10/10/06 - Where Is Recycling Going And Is That Where We Wanted To Be?
10/10/06 - Yorkshire And Humber Offices Too Stressed To Get Wasteful Habits Off Their Chest?
6/10/06 - WRAP's Behavioural Change Local Fund
6/10/06 - Yorkshire And Humber Business Owners Asked - What's Your Manifesto?
6/10/06 - Sheffield's first city centre recycling bin is installed
25/09/06 - Award Winning Social Enterprise Comes to Town
25/09/06 - Major Change Predicted For Wood Recycling Industry
25/09/06 - Supermarkets Score Poorly On Waste Action
25/09/06 - WRAP Invites Tenders For Procurement Of Home Compost Bins And Accessories
25/09/06 - UK - What A Waste: We Could Be Recycling More
25/09/06 - UK - WRAP Launches Wine Bottle Recycling Project
21/09/06 - YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER?S BUILDING TRADE CAN BENEFIT FROM NEW FREE GUIDES
18/09/06 - Britain "bottom of the heap" for recycling
18/09/06 - New National Packaging Waste Database Proposed
18/09/06 - Corus launches national award scheme for steel can recycling
18/09/06 - Recycling technology: unlocking the riddle of LCD re-use
15/09/06 - The Waste World Cup
14/09/06 - Aalto Wood Recycling - We're off to minimize landfill and maximize wood recycling
14/09/06 - Organic Closed Loop Recycling Exemplar Projects
12/09/06 - UK - HSE publishes best practice guidance on waste/recycling collection vehicles
12/09/06 - Vacancy - Resource Efficiency Programmes Co-ordinator - Yorkshire Forward
25/08/06 - Limited results for household recycling incentive trials
24/08/06 - YORKSHIRE & HUMBER RETAILERS CAN CHECK OUT RESOURCE EFFICIENCY SAVINGS USING NEW FACT SHEETS
24/08/06 - Business Support Services to Grow Your Recycling Business
23/08/06 - Europe - survey suggests WEEE takeback costs lower than feared
23/08/06 - UK - flytipping begins at home
23/08/06 - UK - new EA plan to encourage a better, 'greener' waste management industry
23/08/06 - UK - pilot study of local authority household incentives for waste management - report launched
23/08/06 - Tesco offers bonus to green-conscious consumers
23/08/06 - Japan - milestone reached for total recycling system for plastic PET bottles
23/08/06 - India - plastic waste to be used to lay Delhi roads
23/08/06 - WRAP Launches New Fund to Enhance Senior Management Skills in the Recycling Sector
18/08/06 - WRAP Launches New Fund to Enhance Senior Management Skills in the Recycling Sector
18/08/06 - Enroll Now Free Online Course from Leeds University- Starts 4th September
14/08/06 - UK - in-vessel composting of food wastes: research published
9/08/06 - WRAP: open tender for trailblazer sites to use compost in regeneration and remediation
7/08/06 - Ringing the changes.....cash for mobile phones
4/08/06 - BPF calls for faster pace of UK energy reforms
4/08/06 - UK - testing an approach to reducing carrier bag waste shows the challenges involved
4/08/06 - Scotland - plastic bag tax
4/08/06 - Europe - plastic recycling boosted by legislative targets
4/08/06 - Environment Agency releases Spotlight report
2/08/06 - UK - local authority funding announced for food waste collection trials
2/08/06 - England - nation may fail to meet EU organics diversion targets
21/07/06 - ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCH IMPRESSIVE NEW WEBSITE
20/07/06 - CALLING ALL (WASTE TRANSFER) STATIONS
18/07/06 - Vacancy - Implementation Manager - Yorkshire and Humber
18/07/06 - WRAP Training Courses
12/07/06 - UK - recycled plastic packaging moves into the mainstream
11/07/06 - WRAP claims
11/07/06 - Valpak buys waste plastics sorting site
10/07/06 - UK - householders 'back charge for non-recyclable rubbish'
10/07/06 - Europe - batteries to be collected and recycled, nature protected
10/07/06 - Sustainability impacts on Top Track 100 table
10/07/06 - Europe - aluminium cans pass the 50% recycling rate for the first time
4/07/06 - Japan - plastic recyclers can't compete with China
4/07/06 - Canada - plastic bag return-to-vendor plan joins Ottawa’s Take it Back! programme
4/07/06 - Business Commitment to the Environment (BCE) Awards Winners Announced - June 2006
27/06/06 - Investment In Processing Key To Maximising Glass Recycling
26/06/06 - WRAP SME Recycling Programme - Year 2 Feasibility Trials
20/06/06 - UK - more than half of recyclables could end up in landfill
20/06/06 - New CD-ROM toolkit could help Yorkshire and Humber offices save £360 million
20/06/06 - LACK OF ENVIRONMENTAL FOCUS MEANS YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER FIRMS COULD BE MISSING COMPETITIVE EDGE
15/06/06 - Symphony degradable packaging finds new applications
13/06/06 - Japan - efforts to cut down on plastic bags
9/06/06 - Wrap looks to fund HDPE reprocessing capacity
8/06/06 - Solway contributes to Irish farm plastics recycling
6/06/06 - Coca-Cola offers market for recycled plastics
6/06/06 - Ikea slaps charge on plastics bags in UK
6/06/06 - Biopolymer option for US fast foods
6/06/06 - UK - degradable or biodegradable plastics?
6/06/06 - Canada - 'Plastax' is gaining support in region
6/06/06 - Kenya - Government steps up efforts to stamp out plastic bags
6/06/06 - Online system helps reporting of UK packaging waste
6/06/06 - Whiteread plastic artwork recycled into wheel arches
6/06/06 - UK - Belu launches biodegradable bottle in mineral water market
6/06/06 - UK - Tesco to make plastic bags biodegradable
6/06/06 - BPF to meet UK energy minister
6/06/06 - UK - plastic bottle recycling reaches almost all households
6/06/06 - New Plastics Recycling Facility Opens in London
6/06/06 - Farm plastic waste research to start in UK
6/06/06 - UK - polythene recycling facility doubles capacity at BPI Dumfries
6/06/06 - WRAP - Expansion of Composting and Added-Value Product Manufacture
6/06/06 - WRAP - Wood Capital Support Programme Increasing Value-Added Markets
6/06/06 - WRAP - Capital Support Competition for Used Tyres Processing Infrastructure Within the UK
1/06/06 - National Recycling Awards 2006
22/05/06 - Free design services for composters in Yorkshire and the Humber
22/05/06 - WRAP Events and Courses for Organics
22/05/06 - Recycling Action Yorkshire Plastics Event
22/05/06 - WRAP Invitation To Tender - Used Tyres Market Readiness
22/05/06 - Local designer and Hills Office Furniture demonstrate the opportunities presented by recycling
18/05/06 - DfES Sustainable Schools consultation
18/05/06 - England - extra help for poorest performers as recycling targets are increased
18/05/06 - UK - HSE report calls for limit to size of recycling boxes
16/05/06 - Dragons Den
16/05/06 - WRAP Report – Environmental Benefits of Recycling
9/05/06 - Rural Enterprise Scheme closing date approaches
9/05/06 - On-farm composting event for Barnsley
9/05/06 - WRAP publishes major LCA overview
4/05/06 - UK - Government launches food industry sustainability strategy (FISS)
18/04/06 - Project Call: Collection of Flat Glass and Glazing Waste for Recycling
11/04/06 - US - boat shrink wrap plastic getting recycled
10/04/06 - Action needed to maximise potential of Yorkshire and Humber Plastic Recycling
10/04/06 - APPRICOD European Workshop
10/04/06 - Warwickshire scraps recycling service for mixed plastics
10/04/06 - Polythene degreades to water
10/04/06 - Wood plastic composites to use post consumer plastic waste
27/03/06 - Southwark collects mixed plastics for recycling
22/03/06 - UK - Defra to develop farm plastics scheme
22/03/06 - Canada - industry body reports that plastic packaging delivers environmental benefits
21/03/06 - Buying green is good for your business
20/03/06 - UK - project closes loop for WEEE plastics
17/03/06 - Wales - end to weekly bin pick-up looming
17/03/06 - UK - new waste management information portal for SMEs
17/03/06 - Green Waste Can Add Value to Farm Land
17/03/06 - UK - resource scarcity will cause economic problems and jeopardise quality of life
17/03/06 - UK - aerobic organics collection bin trial yields fine results
13/03/06 - Major retail names in reduced packaging trials
8/03/06 - UK - study shows link between communications activity and recycling rates
18/02/06 - Women into Waste and Resource Management (WWARM)
18/02/06 - National Councils' Climate Conference
18/02/06 - Sheffield Chamber of Commerce & Industry – Training & Development Prospectus to January 2006
18/02/06 - Carbon Neutral – the hottest new marketing tool?
18/02/06 - Community Re>Paint Annual Skillshare Event
18/02/06 - Europe - stakeholders disappointed that Commission backs down on biowaste legislation
18/02/06 - Businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber called to shorten paper trail to the moon
18/02/06 - SCPnet: a new network promoting sustainable consumption and production
18/02/06 - Defra's Local Authority Support team have issued a good practice guide to the collection of bulky wastes.
18/02/06 - Flanders ceases landfill in 2006
18/02/06 - WRAP - driving tyre recycling forward
18/02/06 - Yorkshire & Humber Firms Urged to Make 21 February 'One Bin Day'
23/01/06 - UK - new report on DTQs for GHG trading finds the concept feasible
25/10/05 - UK - report highlights opportunity for biodiesel in London
25/10/05 - UK - largest ever construction waste measurement project
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