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Contract win NEWS The month in resource management Resource Minister Dan Rogerson has supported the 'Fresher for Longer' campaign and said that packaging has an important part to play in helping to combat food waste. Fresher for Longer Rogerson backs packs New product Retaining wall systems TRUCK CANS - The work of artist Martine Camillieri is a continuation of small experiments intended to enliven everyday life. Here, she creates toy vehicles from emptied plastic bottles. The main idea behind her work is to propose a second life or to multiply the usages of common consumer objects through recycling, in order to limit their environmental impact on the planet. Camillieri says: "For me the object in itself doesn't exist, it's nothing but an endlessly interchangeable Lego brick, it is only important when we look at it. Let's stop always wanting more, making too many or importing so many - one day all these goods will overwhelm us." 14 Local Authority Waste & Recycling March 2014 Private equity specialist Agilitas has announced that it has invested in the management buyout of Impetus Waste Management. Agilitas has not disclosed the amount it invested in the MBO. Investment PE firm backs Impetus MBO A revised and updated end- of-waste Quality Protocol for anaerobic digestion has been released. Produced by the Environment Agency, with the support of WRAP and industry Legislation Updated Quality Protocol for AD Recycling firm Viridor has announced that it will open a £25m glass recycling plant at Newhouse in Lanarkshire this summer. The company said the "next-generation" facility would be the most advanced in Europe. It will have the capacity to recycle 200,000 tonnes of glass every year, which is 150% of all glass packaging currently collected in Scotland. Glass recycling £25m plant to open in Scotland and L-bloc systems". Speaking about the firm's new innovations, a Poundfield Products spokesman said: "It is our continued objective to provide the UK waste management industry with a range of cost-effective solutions designed to meet their developing requirements for bulk-material storage." BIU Group (formally known as Bag It Up), one of the UK's well-known textile recycling organisations, has announced that it has opened a new recycling depot in Reading with support from Reading Borough Council. Vehicles and drivers based at the depot will not only service the Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance (TVACAA), but all BIU Group's Air Ambulance partners in the region including, Dorset and Somerset, Essex, Hertfordshire, Hampshire and Isle of Wight and Great Western. representatives, the new document updates the original Quality Protocol published in 2010 and provides greater clarity of acceptable input materials and their associated codes. © Martine Camillieri TOMRA sensor-based sorting technology from TOMRA Sorting UK has been selected by three waste processing companies in the UK and Ireland, enabling them to significantly increase their paper sorting capacity. The three new contract wins see a range of TOMRA's TITECH autosort technology chosen by well-known waste management companies Saica Natur, AES Ireland and Wastebeater to significantly boost both volume and quality of recovered paper. TOMRA takes the prize Ipswich-based Poundfield Products, a designer and man- ufacturer of precast concrete retaining walls, has unveiled two new products. It said that it has launched the 'Taperbloc' and the 'BetalocXL' wall units which "will enhance our very successful Alfabloc, Shuttabloc Waste and recycling firm B&M Waste Services is investing £1m in a facility to produce refuse derived fuel (RDF) at its site in Trafford Park, Manchester. The company, which is based in Wirral, said that it has signed a contract with a major German utility company, under which it will export the refuse derived fuel produced on the site for use at a waste to energy facility in Germany. The facility, set to open this spring, will process commercial waste with materials such as cardboard, wood and metals recycled. Investment New RDF plant for Manchester NEWS March 2014 Local Authority Waste & Recycling 15 Rubbish relationships, Schwooping and superheroes Who says romance is dead? Well, an LBC talk radio presenter didn't. Citing a recent survey, he said that the key to a happy relationship is to help out with recycling. Yes, you read this rightly. Who would have thought? But men you do need to pull your fingers out. According to a BusinessWaste.co.uk survey, women are better at recycling than men. The research showed that while women in traditional relationships were more likely to make sure that the right materials went into the right bin, it is generally the man who is more likely to put the bin out. More than a third (39%) of households surveyed said females were taking the lead in ensuring their rubbish was correctly sorted, compared to males (19%). Delving deeper, the study found that when it came to taking waste materials to the tip, 78% of households left it to the man to do the deed. Charming! Here at LAWR we think the quote of the month has to go to Indigo Waste Services director Gary Lee. When asked about the issue of the lack of high quality materials going into some material recycling facilities, he responded: "Well, if you put rubbish in you get rubbish out." Elsewhere, anaerobic digestion (AD) company Biogen has recruited a pair of superheroes to help promote the technology to the public, to potential suppliers of food waste and to local authorities. Biogen Ben and Anna Robic are caped crusaders from another world, committed to the fight to encourage humans to send their food waste to AD. Each character has its own unique superpower. Anna's power is creating electricity from food waste to light up our homes and power our appliances while her sidekick and companion, Biogen Ben re-energises farmland and crops with the biofertiliser created from our AD plants. The cartoon characters have been designed with children in mind and it is anticipated that their interest will also help to raise awareness to adults of the need to dispose of food waste correctly. Anna and Ben have their own webpage on the Biogen website www.biogen.co.uk/anna-robic. Meanwhile, the European Commission has unveiled a new film that promotes the message of viewing waste as a resource as part of its environmental initiative - Generation Awake. The film takes the form of a movie-style trailer for 'The Awakeners' in which waste bin Richard Rubbish 'suffer[s] disrespect, until one day, he stood up' and is helped by shopping bags Impulse Inga, Chubby Charlie and Routine Robbie. Viewers are then told to 'join "The Awakeners" at generationawake.eu and turn rubbish into a resource.' Model Georgia May Jagger revealed in Glamour magazine last month that she often swaps clothes with friends and never gives them back (hasn't she got enough money to buy her own?) She said: "I think I still have one of Cara's [Delevingne] outfits from Glastonbury." Recycling Bits and Pieces The month in resource management TRUCK CANS - The work of artist Martine Camillieri is a continuation of small experiments intended to enliven everyday life. Here, she creates toy vehicles from emptied plastic bottles. The main idea behind her work is to propose a second life or to multiply the usages of common consumer objects through recycling, in order to limit their environmental impact on the planet. Camillieri says: "For me the object in itself doesn't exist, it's nothing but an endlessly interchangeable Lego brick, it is only important when we look at it. Let's stop always wanting more, making too many or importing so many - one day all these goods will overwhelm us." UK clothing powerhouses including Tesco, Next and designer Stella McCartney are among 53 retailers, suppliers, charities and recyclers in the textiles sector who have Textiles Fashion giants sign green pledge YOUR ROUND-UP OF THIS MONTH'S TOP STORIES ACROSS THE INDUSTRY committed to significantly reduce the environmental impacts of clothing across its lifecycle. WRAP has also launched a consumer campaign Love Your Clothes, supported by the SCAP 2020 Commitment signatories and supporters, designed to encourage the public to think about the way they buy, use and discard their clothing. Former supermodel Anna Freemantle with students launching WRAP- backed Love Your Clothes campaign

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