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 [...]
The Value of Rubbish
Yazan: Lucy | 12 February 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: Recycling
Yes, I’m back after yet another hiatus, this time due to a holiday, a chest infection and an obscene number of Parliamentary Questions (thankfully not all at once).
Coming back from London last night, I noticed that NXEC are now separating out waste into paper, plastics and rubbish. This set me off thinking about the value [...]
More on PFI for waste management infrastructure
Yazan: Lucy | 12 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: infrastructure
With grateful thanks to a colleague who shall remain anonymous because I forgot to ask him if he minded being outed as a Civil Servant…
The sizing of each waste management facility is considered very carefully as part of the PFI appraisal process and is linked specifically to Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) deriving from an [...]
Recycling and National Indicators
Yazan: Lucy | 27 October 2008 | 3 Comments
Categories: Recycling
This started out as a reply to a comment from Mark, but got a bit long so I decided to cheat and use it as todays post!
“well at least you get some plastic recycling, as we get none at kerbside, and just a couple of banks for whole county at supermarkets.
Lucy, defra do also have [...]
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