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NEWS February 2014 Local Authority Waste & Recycling 15 Leave your cap on instead of your hat, recycled cork art & wrong date A man searching for scrap at the Dublin City Council depot found what was believed to be a bomb but later turned out to be an ornament. According to Herald.ie, he handed it over to staff at the facility who decided the best course of action was to call police. After an initial inspection the army were notified and the bomb squad tasked to deal with the grenade, thought to be made of steel and possibly historical in origin. A massive security operation took place and the army arrived at 1pm but a quick assessment of the find revealed it was purely ornamental. Artist Conrad Engelhardt has found a creative way to produce art made from recycled wine corks. Engelhardt's colour palette is comprised exclusively of the natural colours imparted to the cork by the wines. The resulting artworks range in colour from deep burgundies to soft, warm highlights. Leave your hat on or shall I say leave your cap on. North Lincolnshire Council and Leeds City Council have become the latest local authorities to launch Alupro's 'Leave Your Cap On' recycling communications initiative which encourages recyclers to screw the aluminium caps back on glass bottles before recycling. The new campaigns have seen 'Leave your cap on' stickers applied to over 870 glass banks across Leeds and 191 in North Lincolnshire and scantily clad males holding recycling bins (see pic). In addition to this, North Lincolnshire Council is the first to take the message kerbside, running a trial in one round. The programme, which has been developed by Alupro (the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation) in partnership with British Glass and EAFA (European Aluminium Foil Association), aims to increase the recovery of aluminium screw caps and closures, used predominantly on wine and spirits and cooking ingredients such as olive oil, as the metal can be successfully recovered during the glass recycling process. If you have a 1986 calendar around and you haven't bought a 2014 one then you may be in luck. Because while the vintage pictures may seem a little out of date, the dates themselves will match up perfectly with 2014. The dates of 1986 are exactly aligned with the dates of 2014 – so anyone who does discover a rusty 27-year-old calendar in the cupboard will find it is a perfect fit all over again. And the overlap has provided inspiration for calendar makers, who have started reprinting photos from the 1980s in celebration of the event. Recycling Bits and Pieces The month in resource management STRIKE A POSE - This is a giant Buddha statue called 'Queen Mother of Reality' and it's entirely made of recycled materials. Created by Polish artist Pawel Althamer, it is a collage of everyday items like old hats, lamps and umbrellas. It popped up last year at the Williamsburg waterfront's East River State Park, in New York, as part of the Performa 13 arts festival. The two and a half year project to build and fully commission Wiltshire's first mechanical biological treatment plant has reached completion. The Northacre Resource Technology Wiltshire's first MBT plant YOUR ROUND-UP OF THIS MONTH'S TOP STORIES ACROSS THE INDUSTRY permission was needed because it exceeds the 4m (13ft) limit for moveable structures. Swansea Council said it would not be used until permission was granted. Recovery Centre, based on the Northacre trading estate in Westbury has been issued with a completion certificate which marks the end of the commissioning phase and sees the centre move onto normal day-to-day operations. It also signalled the official start of the 25-year contract between Hills Waste Solutions, the site's operators, and Wiltshire Council for 60,000 tonnes of the county's household waste to be processed at the site and turned into a solid recovered fuel (SRF) instead of being sent to landfill. The control room at Northacre Resource Recovery Centre

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