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Slack Bloggers Anonymous

Yazan: Lucy | 10 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: Goings On

My name is Lucy and I’m a slack blogger.
I have an excuse of course.  You may, if you have a good memory, recall that my last post mentioned the depletion of my team.  Well, I finally fixed that in mid-December when we found the money to get someone in to cover for the poor soul [...]

What’s going on?

Yazan: Lucy | 23 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Goings On

My best intentions of blogging more often have been undermined by sheer workload, especially now parliament are back.  Look out for all the Parliamentary Questions on waste hitting a Hansard near you! 
Anyway, things are happening:
Hilary Benn’s vision for a World Without Waste.  Read it, it’s good
More ’stakeholder engagement’ (otherwise known as ‘talking to [...]

Putting things off

Yazan: Lucy | 22 September 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: General Witterings

Hello again world.
I haven’t actually abandoned this blog, nor has it lain fallow for want of content.  There is loads going on in the wider world of waste, and, indeed, plenty happening in my little corner of it, I just haven’t had time to write about it.
This is entirely down to my own dreadful time [...]

New Post, Old News

Yazan: Lucy | 11 June 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: General Witterings, Things I Learned Today

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.  I’ve been out of the office for two days this week and managed to miss all the excitement!  So now I’m writing a blog post with lots of news, none of which is very new.  Ho hum. 
So, here’s a run down of the Week in Waste so far:
Monday: Environment Secretary [...]

Collection at the Wellcome

Yazan: Lucy | 22 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Things I Learned Today

On Tuesday I attended the confusingly titled and located Collection Conference at the Wellcome Collection.
It was a very interesting conference from the point of view of a relative newbie to the industry; although all the policy-type stuff was in the first session, I found that the presentations on the operational issues of recycling collections [...]

Controlled Waste Regulations 1992

Yazan: Lucy | 14 March 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: Legislation

We’ve finally published a timetable for our review of Schedule 2 of the Controlled Waste Regulations 19
Schedule 2 of the CWR sets out types of premises which produce ‘household waste’ (as defined in the Environmental Protection Act 1990) but which a local authority can charge for collection of the waste.  The Regulations are now 16 [...]

Flu and other things

Yazan: Lucy | 13 December 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: General Witterings, Legislation

No, I haven’t abandoned this blog, but I’ve spent quite a lot of the last few weeks hiding under a duvet and wishing for a swift end!
So, time for a quick update on what’s going on with municipal waste:
(1) An update to the Waste Framework Directive came into force yesterday, and Member States have 2 [...]