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Businesses have paid out £3m in commercial fly-tipping fees in past three years 

Businesses have paid out a shocking £3 million in commercial fly-tipping fees over the past three years, with the City of Westminster taking the top spot for gaining hefty commercial fines. Every year fly-tipping costs the UK government up to ...

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JLL strengthens sustainability supply chain with the appointment of Mitie to manage waste operations

Mitie has been selected to manage waste operations delivery across the entirety of the portfolio managed by JLL Property Asset Management (PAM). The appointment aims to provide an efficient and economic method of ensuring sustainable waste services across what is ...

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CIWM elects new chair

The Trustees of the leading professional body for the resource and waste management sector, CIWM, have elected Liz Parkes as Chair of General Council. Parkes, who has been a trustee of CIWM since 2021 and of CIWM Enterprises before that, ...

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Norse enters new JV with Rochford District Council

Norse Group has secured an eight-year waste collection and street cleansing deal with Rochford District Council in Essex. The partnership commenced on 4 July 2022, picking up immediately after the Council’s current environmental services contract ends with Suez Ltd. Under ...

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Sustainability is ‘very important’ for most SMEs but less than half use a recycling service

New research from waste management firm, Biffa, has found that whilst SMEs are keen to be more sustainable some are struggling to make changes like recycling. The survey of over 1,000 small to medium-sized businesses in the UK revealed 59 ...

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Mitie appointed supplier to new Government facilities management and workplace services framework

Mitie has been named as a supplier on the new Crown Commercial Services (CCS) framework, RM6232. The appointment enables Mitie to tender for contracts across all Government departments and public sector organisations to deliver a full range of facilities management ...

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New CIWM President calls for End of Waste reform

CIWM,  the leading professional body for the resource and waste management sector, marked the inauguration of its next President, Dr Anna Willetts, with the launch of her 2022 Presidential Report, ‘Improving the way we regulate circular resources in the UK’, ...

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Ecoserv launches monitored waste management service

Ecoserv Group is launching a managed service to help customers meet their waste and recycling commitments. The multi-discipline facilities management company has partnered with GPT Waste, a leading independent provider of waste management solutions across the UK to deliver a highly ...

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Live video demonstration of the industrial-scale digestor Advetec XO machine – 21st July at 11am

Have you ever wondered how waste gets eaten? Mixed Residual Waste (arising from Commercial and Trade premises) cannot be recycled conventionally due to contamination. So what can be done to bring it back into the circular economy? How can we ...

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Chief sustainability officer hire at Averda

The end-to-end waste management, treatment and recycling company has appointed Samer Kamal as the company’s inaugural Chief Sustainability Officer. This new C-Suite position has been created to accelerate Averda’s ‘Renew24’ corporate strategy, which sees the company focus even further on ...

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