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Despite their undoubted environmental benefits, waste recycling sites have long been viewed by the regulators as potentially significant sources of soil and groundwater contamination. House Clearance Sheffield notes with this in mind, waste transfer stations are becoming ever more regulated and targeted by environmental legislation. The current clamp down on unregulated sites is just the most recent example. The pressure from regulators, planners and site owners/lessors will force site operators to become more focused both on the prevention of future environmental damage, and sorting out historical contamination.

House Clearance Sheffield can report that house clearance recycling is ahead of the game as Alan Davis from House Clearance Sheffield points out the house clearance industry is well placed. “We have the infrastructure to collect, we have the infrastructure to trade and we have the infrastructure to recycle. We also have the capacity to handle increased volumes.

You would normally associate the terms ‘energy from waste’ or the more technical ‘incineration for energy recovery’ with large-scale incinerators handling many thousands of tonnes of household waste a year. However, the technology and the costings are making it an ever more attractive option for small to medium sized businesses.

Edinburgh House Clearance can report that waste transfer station operators faced with the problem of paying ever increasing tipping charges for wood waste are increasingly looking at alternative disposal.

House Clearance Glasgow report that waste arisings in 2013 (616m tonnes) dropped slightly on the 2012 figure (623m tonnes), but the amount of waste produced in the UK has remained fairly static over the last five years. They report that although the tonnage of waste in different sectors fluctuates, the overall level is not subject to major changes or trends.

House Clearance Glasgow reports that O.Kay Engineering Services Ltd. has used a tour of three Dutch recycling companies to demonstrate the power and performance of their range of BEZNER automated sorting machines to potential UK customers. Interest in the equipment manufactured by German automated waste screening specialists BEZNER prompted O.Kay to arrange the visit.

Design is one of the buzzwords of the day: the principals of design for ease of use, good looks and simplicity are becomingly increasingly widespread in recycling banks, which is understandable as they present the public face of recycling. In this article, House Clearance Edinburgh take a look at some of the major developments in recycling bank production.

As extra revenue from Packaging Recovery Notes is being fed into the glass collection infrastructure, there have been two major developments in bottle banks: increased advertising and publicity has helped to push up participation rates, in turn leading to greater demand for bottle banks.

House Clearance Aberdeen has launched a Manifesto to boost recycling, calling on local authoroties to give the highest priority to developing markets for recycled materials as part of the new waste strategy.

House Clearance Dundee reports it is estimated that as much as 1.3 million tonnes of wooden packaging (mainly pallets) enters the UK waste stream, yet in 2013 a mere 120,264 tonnes were reported by obligated business. The Environment Agency is understood to be investigating the reasons behind this massive under-declaration of wood packaging. Until this year, there was no requirement to recycle or recover wood packaging waste.

Skip permits were introduced as one of a series of local authority money-raisers. Essentially every time a skip is placed on the public highway, the local council can levy a charge. Skip operators have been faced with dealing with this new tax, which has significantly increase the cost of skip-hire.

House Clearance Ayrshire can report 623 million tonnes of waste was produced in the UK in 2013, according to a recent report. The report also states that the total amount of waste rose 1% on 2012’s figure, indicating that the overall level is relatively static. However, there were sizeable fluctuations in individual sectors. Drawing together information from various government sources, House Clearance Ayrshire calculate the following break-down over a five year period: