2015 HIGHS & LO August October
NEWS
There was much excitement in the Skip Hire Magazine Heights this month when we learnt we had been shortlisted for a
prestigious CIWM Sustainability and Resource Award for our on-going Whack-A-Bin campaign. We couldn’t wait for the award event in London in November. Finger’s crossed we’d win but it was great to be nominated in the first place!
HIGH Ben Daniels from Bill and Ben Skip
August was a month for charity madness in the world of waste and skips. ISL Waste Management wrapped its bales of
RDF in bright pink instead of traditional black in support of The Pink Ladies Cancer Support Group and MacMillan Cancer Support. And for every bale processed, ISL made a cash donation to the charities. A team of runners from Fairport Containers announced they had raised almost £11,000 for cancer Research UK by running in the London Marathon earlier in the year. And four intrepid explorers from Alan’s Skip Hire in Chester celebrated conquering the famous Monte Carlo of Bust Rally on behalf of Cheshire Young Carers. What a generous world of waste we live in!
HIGH Keeping up with the generosity theme, actor Leonardo DiCaprio donated
$115 million to a variety of worldwide environmental causes, including the World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic and Save the Elephants.
LOW We report that many landfill operators are concerned the risk of
accepting fines from waste transfer stations is too high and they will be
“pounced” on by the HMRC, looking to recoup vast amounts of landfill tax. This is despite the Landfill Tax (Qualifying Fines) Order that came into force in April, which set out the LOI test, and requirements of what is acceptable.
September
RWM dominated the September issue of Skip Hire Magazine once again as we geared up to see
product launches and visit customers old and new at the sector’s biggest exhibition of the year.
HIGH A pair of African hamsters were
rescued after being dumped at Moray Waste Busters reuse-reclaim facility in Forres, Scotland. The abandoned pets were found on a pile of books and bric-a-brac. Luckily for them kind- hearted staff member Lynn Donaldson took them home, cleaned them out and gave them a good home.
LOW New storage guidance for combustible materials, proposed by the
Environment Agency, hits the headlines this month as it forces one of the UK’s longest established wood recyclers to close its gates for the first time in its 35 year history. Hadfield Wood Recyclers shut its gates to low grade wood at two of its three sites because it could not comply with the proposed new guidance. The company urged other businesses to lobby the EA to show the guidance was unworkable for large-scale operations.
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Hire was the talk of the town when he turned up in a customised white skip for his marriage to finance Amy at Astbury Church, Congleton. The couple set up the business together 11 years ago and had always joked Ben would arrive at the church in a skip if they ever got married!
LOW Skip Hire columnist John Crawford looks at the sad issue of fly-tipping
and how, despite efforts from councils, it is always an issue wherever you are. A BBC documentary Wastemen had covered the issue and, as John pointed out, it’s not just local residents fly-tipping. There’s lots of underhand businesses out there doing it as well.
November
Dataset Waste Management Software applied our Whack-A-Bin logo onto their smartphone digital
app for drivers. The app is used to log drivers’ daily work lists so each time the driver activates the app, the Whack-A-Bin logo will appear on the screen, reminding the driver to whack the bin before they lift it. What a genius idea. Thank you Dataset Waste Management!
HIGH An urn containing the ashes of a deceased woman was recovered
from a skip by staff at Gamble Plant in Norfolk. The staff were sorting through the contents of the skip when they came across the urn. They opened it expecting it to be empty, only to discover it was full of ashes. Obviously on hearing this story we took it upon ourselves to try to track down the lady’s family and are pleased to announce her ashes have now been reunited with her granddaughter, thanks to BBC Radio Norfolk who covered the tale. For the full story see page 4.
LOW Latest figures released by the Health and Safety Executive, show that
more than 600,000 workers were injured and an additional 500,000 suffered ill health in 2014/15, as a result of the work they did. Work-related illness and injury is estimated to cost the UK billions of pounds every year.
December
2015 has been an incredible year for Skip Hire Magazine with so many positives coming out of it. Probably
the biggest for us is the fact that we know our Whack-A-Bin campaign saved at least one life this year and that in itself makes the whole campaign worthwhile.
Thanks to all our advertisers, supporters and contributors who have helped to make Skip Hire Magazine such a fun place to work and a fantastic publication. And thanks to all our loyal readers without whom there would be no need for a magazine in the first place! Here’s to next year and an even more successful 2016 for all of us!
Issue 121 December 2015/January 2016 SHM
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