After hiring a Dig A Crusher bucket for one month’s trial we have just sold not only a Dig A Crusher bucket but also a Dig A Screener screening bucket. The client was so happy with the reduced costs of the crushing bucket that he had to have one. When he saw a demo of the screener then it was a no brainer for his one acre site. Besides the reduced costs the client was attracted to the no engine maintenance of both our products.
What is particurlarly attractive to any prospective clients is that you can get yourself set up in this industry now for as little as £100k all in whereas if you go down the conventional crushing and screening route you would be looking at three to four times that amount.
Trade magazine Contract Journal reports that members of the UK Contractors Group have agreed to sign up to the WRAP Halving Waste to Landfill Commitment.
The group, which represents 25 major contractors, will individually report progress in achieving their own waste targets through the use of the WRAP Waste to Landfill Reporting Portal. The portal allows monitoring of individual company performance improvement and permits comparison against industry standards.
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Online waste and recycling resource MRW is reporting that the Treasury has launched a consultation on modernising the landfill tax system which includes plans to change the definitions of taxable disposal of waste at a landfill site and inert wastes.
The document titled Modernising landfill tax legislation cites last year’s Waste Recycling Group vs. HM Revenue & Customs case as a key driver for this change.
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WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) welcomes its additional £10 million funding announced in today’s budget for the development of reprocessing facilities for food waste. The funding will enable new composting and anaerobic digestion facilities to be built – processing over 300,000 additional tonnes of food waste every year. It builds on our existing programmes which have been operating for over five years and will divert more waste from landfill, create more renewable energy and produce more useful agricultural products.
This funding is in addition to the £10 million to help build anaerobic digestion demonstration plants announced by Hilary Benn in his speech to the National Farmers' Union Centenary Conference on 18 February 2008.
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Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that there will be a continued increase in the standard rate of landfill tax by £8 per tonne on 1 April each year until 2013 in this year’s Budget.
This will mean that landfill tax will be £56 in 2011, £64 in 2012 and £72 by April 2013. The Government aims to reduce the UK’s dependence on landfill by encouraging further investment into alternative waste management options, such as anaerobic digestion technology.
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A new series of WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) projects being established across the country mean that Scotland is once again at the forefront of trialling innovative new applications for quality compost that will help shape policy and practice across the UK.
The trials - which are being conducted by Forestry Commission Scotland and SAC amongst others in partnership with WRAP - are designed to determine the commercial benefits of using quality compost in applications that range from soil improvement through to the establishment of woodland and biomass crops on brownfield land.
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Manchester City Council has become the first English council to sign up to WRAP’s (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Halving Waste to Landfill voluntary agreement.
By making this commitment Manchester joins leading clients, contractors and retailers such as Network Rail, Laing O’Rourke, Balfour Beatty, Asda and Marks & Spencer.
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WRAP’s (Waste & Resources Action Programme) expanded business development service will enable small-medium (SME) recycling businesses across England to draw on local expertise through regionally placed business advisors. SMEs in the recycling or reprocessing industry can receive free support and advice from WRAP at any stage of their business development.
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Fife Council has announced today it will be the first council in Scotland to sign up to WRAP’s (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Halving Waste to Landfill commitment. Fife Council will join Laing O’Rourke and Hamilton Waste Recycling Ltd to bring the voluntary commitment to the Scottish
construction industry.
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Online waste resource MRW reports that the European Union’s Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) will come into force in England from 1 March and will have an impact on waste management activities, according to international law firm Freshfields.
The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations require operators not only to take preventative action to avoid environmental damage occurring in the first place, but also to “own up to regulators to having caused environmental damage should it occur”.
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