NEWS
2015 HIGHS & LOWS March
It was lights, camera, and action for the Skip Hire Magazine team as we celebrated our 15 minutes of fame on Sky Vision’s documentary “Bin there dump that”. The six part programme followed various characters from the waste industry in a bid to dispel the myth that it’s a mucky job, but someone has to do it! And of course our sales and operations manager Debs and editor Louise were keen to be involved, featuring in the final episode of the series with the guys and gals from Reston Waste in Wimbledon.
HIGH News that The Safer Lorry Scheme, set up by London Councils and
Heathrow Airport, would be launched in the autumn was welcomed. The scheme aims to ensure only lorries with basic safety equipment will be allowed on the roads, and those without it will have to be retrofitted.
LOW We reported that the Packington landfill site, managed by Sita UK, had
closed after nearly 50 years. The site, once the busiest in Europe, now houses 35 million tonnes of waste. It was the first site in the country to produce electricity from landfill gas and is likely to continue doing so for the next 20 years.
April
In April we featured Dan Read, the man behind the incredible Engineered Learning organisation, which takes young people who are near to or have been expelled from education and trains them in metal work skills. Engineered Learning was set up in 2013 and is funded by the Derbyshire Pupil Referral Unit.
After just two years Dan and his team had already trained dozens of youngsters with practical skills and even helped one young man to find employment.
HIGH Students from the University of South Wales teamed up with Wales’
leading waste management company GD Environmental, and turned everyday trash into creative pieces of modern day art. The up- cycling project gave a new lease of life to discarded materials to produce a wide variety of items including furniture, lighting, costumes and illustrations.
LOW Enviroman reported on the Chancellor’s latest budget
announcements and his view that the Government had missed an opportunity to put landfill tax money to good use and encourage more recycling and innovation within the industry.
May 62
It was a big month for us here at Skip Hire Magazine as editor Louise left to go on maternity leave and we welcomed Kerry Voellner to act as covering editor
while she was gone. But not only that … our – by now galloping
– Whack-A-Bin campaign was featured in the national magazine The Big Issue. Louise was interviewed about what the campaign was and why we had launched it. We were getting quite a taste for being in the media spotlight!
SHM December 2015/January 2016 Issue 121
HIGH Volunteers from Cornwall created a 1.1 kilometre chain
of washed up bottle tops to highlight the amount of plastic waste on UK beaches. Rame Peninsula Beach Care and the Looe Marine Conservation Group joined forces to demonstrate the problem. The volunteers planned to take the chain to Downing Street.
LOW UROC warn that if proposals set out in the DEFRA
and Welsh Government consultation to enhance enforcement powers for regulators at regulated facilities come into force, the impact will be far reaching for the waste sector. They call for any enforcement mechanisms to be used proportionately to ensure operators have a fair system in which they can defend or appeal notices served.
June
In June’s issue we feature the idea of underground waste systems which send waste below street level to be taken away. Residents and businesses
separate their waste into three streams: organic, mixed dry and general, and then put the waste into an inlet pipe which whisks it deep underground. The waste is then transferred through an underground network of pipes to a central compacter for compression. The system is being widely adopted across Asia and is thought to be a more sustainable and hygienic way of dealing with waste. Sounds good to us!
HIGH The Real Junk Food Project is taking the UK by storm with a growing
network of enterprising chefs, residents and small businesses joining up. The project aims to use “junk” food – or food waste from cafes, restaurants, supermarkets and the like – to feed people in need such as the homeless. In its first year it established a network of over 110 cafes and rescued over 50 tonnes of food, feeding thousands of people. Thumbs up to them!
LOW We warn about the growing trend of identity theft in the UK, partly on
the increase due to thieves rummaging through recycling bins. It is estimated that identity theft costs the UK £3.3 billion a year and provides criminals with around £10 million in cash overflow every day.
July
Whack-A-Bin hit the headlines again this month when we heard that after reading about the campaign in our magazine, a driver from Green Recycling in Maldon, Essex, whacked a bin and got the surprise of his life when a man jumped out. As Green Recycling Director Robert Smith said: “
...Imagine if my driver didn’t whack the bin – it might have killed the man.” Robert went on to urge all skip and waste companies to get involved in the campaign. “Today Whack-A-Bin saved a life,” he added.
HIGH Skip Hire Magazine held its second successful WASTE exhibition which
saw delegates from all over Europe attend, as well as our first live panel debate by industry experts. Plans began straight after the show for the 2016 event which promises to be bigger and better than ever!
LOW We report on UROC’s concerns that MPs made several negative
comments at a scrutiny debate at Westminster, doubting the enforcement of the new LOI regime for landfill, which came into force in April. The new legislation was formally laid for approval at the meeting, but not before several MPs raised a number of questions as to its effectiveness. Something UROC was disappointed to hear.
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