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Waste treatment and renewable energy specialist New Earth Solutions hosted a party of US State legislators at its award- winning Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) near Bristol early last month. The visit was organised by Bristol City Council at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to highlight UK leadership in addressing climate change, and showcases the region's best practice. Last year, Bristol was awarded the status of European Green Capital 2015 with New Earth's facilities having contributed to the success of the City's bid. Visitors came from states such as Maine and Oregon. US visitors NEWS Best practice across the pond The month in resource management A £60,000 sorting station at a Swansea Council recycling centre has not been used in seven months, because it does not have planning permission, according to the BBC. The two-storey picking station was installed at Clyne Household Recycling Centre in May 2013. Shortly after, the council was told by its planning department that Planning Stationary recycling centre One of the UK's oldest waste management companies is celebrating its 80th birthday this year. Cleansing Service Group (CSG), which has its headquarters in Fareham, was founded in 1934 by a Hampshire man, Bunny Hart, who went into business emptying cesspits in the Southampton area. Anniversary CSG celebrates 80th birthday Secretary of State for Wales David Jones visited vehicle tracking giant Quartix's headquarters in Newtown last month. Accompanied by Graham Morgan, director of the South & Mid Wales Chambers of Commerce, he met with Andy Kirk, director at Quartix, to find out more about the company's growth and success in the UK and overseas, and to learn more about the system and technology themselves. The Secretary of State, who is responsible for overall strategic direction of the Wales Office, qualified the visit as "excellent" and Quartix as a "great telematics business". 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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. 14 Local Authority Waste & Recycling February 2014 A textile recycler from Surrey has been prosecuted after two of his staff were spotted by a passing safety inspector working Health and safety Textile recycler H&S breach Tamar Energy has announced the appointment of William Heller as its new chief executive. Heller, previously chief executive of Falck Renewables Wind, joins at an important time for the company as its first two anaerobic digestion (AD) plants, at Basingstoke and Holbeach Hurn, begin exporting electricity to the national grid. New appointment Heller given top job at Tamar It now operates from 22 sites stretching from Cornwall to Kent and up to Middlesbrough in the North. An innovative £250,000 asphalt recycling centre has been unveiled in Bedfordshire and it is set to slash thousands of tonnes of CO2 every year. Greener Surfacing invested in the facility having secured funding of more than £160,000 from asset finance specialist Academy Leasing. dangerously close to the edge of an unprotected roof. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) official immediately halted work at an industrial unit in Horton Close, West Drayton, Hillingdon, when he saw the pair working precariously on the sloping roof with no measures in place to prevent falls. He called the men down and served a prohibition notice halting any further work at height. The incident, on 30 August 2012, led to a full investigation by HSE and a prosecution of the men's boss, textile recycler Rajesh Voralia, trading as RTS Textile Recyclers, at Westminster Magistrates last month. Voralia was fined £4,000 and ordered to pay £3,500 in costs after admitting breaching the Work at Height Regulations 2005. LAWR received no response as we went to press when we tried to contact RTS Textile Recyclers about the story. Paweł Althamer, part of Biba Performa, Performa Commission, 2013. © Paula Court, courtesy Performa 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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