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24 Local Authority Waste & Recycling March 2014 Leafield Envrionmental Leafield Environmental manufactures plastic litter and recycling bins, agricultural products and highways street furniture. The Wiltshire-based company has designed and custom-built a new anti-microbial, pedal operated recycling bin. The new bin, which was designed in association with strategic outsourcing and energy services company MITIE, is made with a built-in anti-microbial additive, which provides a barrier against the growth of bacteria, moulds and fungi to minimise the spread of infection. The bin can collect up to three different waste streams such as landfill waste, mixed recyclables and food or clinical waste in a compact 90-litre unit. The central lid is operated by a foot pedal. www.leafieldrecycle.com Leafield Environmental Leafield Environmental has designed a new bin to help businesses dispose of their confidential waste. The company said that its new Mini-Meridian Confidential Bin is a new design which comes complete with a lockable lid, a pull along handle and wheels to make it easy to move to central recycling or document shredding zones. A survey of facilities and compliance managers conducted by Leafield found that 70% of respondents said their organisation provides confidential waste bins. However, it also found that only 5% are actually close to their desks. A total of 76% are located in shared recycling zones even though almost half of those questioned (43%) agreed they would be more vigilant and more likely to use a confidential bin if it was placed next to their desk. www.leafieldrecycle.com Built On Ambition BOA Recycling UK Ltd. Rorrington 12, SY156BX Chirbury Shropshire, United Kingdom Tel: +44-(0)1938561790 Fax: +44-(0)1938561791 www.boarecycling.co.uk We Impress. Others try to convince from 60 to 225 tons press force The choice for a baler is not ours We realise that the choice for a baler depends on the material to be pressed. The Impress® baler therefore comprises cutting, prepress flap and double prepress flap balers. BOA offers different baling solutions for different types of material. www.boarecycling.co.uk BOA Impress® Different bale methods, specific strengths The greatest pressing force in its class Low operational costs Safe, rigid and reliable PRODUCTS & SERVICES We offer an unrivalled approach towards analytical testing, combining a customer focussed, fast turnaround service for: • Feedstock and Process Analysis • Soils analysis under QPs • Waste Acceptance Testing • Analysis of Recycled Gypsum (PAS109) • Analysis associated with EA Deployments • Analysis of Topsoil to BS3882:2007 Accreditations: • Organics Recycling Group approved Laboratory (PAS100) • REA appointed Laboratory (PAS110) • UKAS Accredited Laboratory For more information please telephone 01344 898 467 or email enquiries@nrm.uk.com Part of the Cawood Scientific Group www.nrm.uk.com Expert laboratory services to the Environmental Sector Edwards Recycling Edwards Recycling has bought a new Volvo L45G wheeled loader to help it to handle waste paper arriving from Greater London, Essex and Kent at the company's materials recovery facility located at Gallions Close, Barking in Essex. The Volvo L45G has been fitted with L5 foam filled tyres, optional long boom, a hydraulic quick hitch and a 2.0m³ Viby Jern hi tip bucket featuring twin hydraulic top clams. According to Volvo Group UK, this combination gives sufficient load-over height to load out walking floor bulk trailers with a dump clearance of 4.3m. The wheeled loader also features separate power steering and load-sensing hydraulic pumps. Oil flow on the load-sensing pump automatically adjusts to match work demand, to help lower fuel consumption during lighter work. www.edwardsrecycling.co.uk Quartix Quartix has released a new mobile app which enables users to view the real-time location of their vehicles and access the core features of the system whilst on the move. The app is free to download and can be used by all Quartix customers. According to the firm, its app offers three key features. The first feature is a vehicle list which offers a summary of all the vehicles to which the user has access, and their present location. Live tracking is also a feature which shows the latest location of a chosen vehicle in real time, as well as other vehicles in the area. The vehicle can be selected to be 'followed' by the app, and the map screen will automatically be updated. Finally, its 'Trip Data' feature shows the trips carried out on any day over the previous six months. www.quartix.co.uk March 2014 Local Authority Waste & Recycling 25 COMMUNITY Kettering charity KCU has appealed for more organisations to get involved in a scheme that is helping vulnerable people in the borough. The Kettering Community Recycling Forum has been set up by charity KCU to ensure unwanted household items are delivered to tenants in social housing who have little in the way of furniture. The scheme ensures items avoid being sent to landfill and are used to make a difference to people's lives. It already has the backing of Kettering Council, companies like Asda, Drapers Furnishers and RJ Rogers and Sons as well as other charities, including Teamwork, according to the Northamptonshire Telegraph. The scheme helped win KCU the furniture recycling contract from Kettering Council. KCU spokesman Paul Jackson told the Northamptonshire Telegraph that more than 2,000 children were living in poverty in the borough, and the initiative went a small way towards providing for those in most need. He explained: "What we have created is a forum consisting of Kettering Borough Council, local charities and local businesses. Members of the forum will donate furniture or h o u s e h o l d goods for people that need it most." Elsewhere, an initiative aimed at helping children care for their environment is coming to schools in Knowsley. March will see the arrival of special 'Educrate' boxes at 12 primary schools in Knowsley helping pupils learn more about four environmental themes. These themes include: food waste reduction, composting and growing from soil to table, reusing items and making new from old with textiles and knitting workshops. Local green transformation charity Faiths4Change is spearheading the project, in partnership with Knowsley Council, after securing £18,780 funding from the Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority and Veolia Environmental Services Community Fund. The crates, containing all the materials needed to run fun, practical sessions linked to the curriculum, will be delivered to primary schools in the Merseyside area including Malvern Primary school, Stockbrige Village Primary and Kirkby Primary. C o m p u t e r recycling specialist XPO IT Services has announced a major new appointment to its staff as part of an increased demand for its services, with three other new positions becoming available shortly to cope with company expansion. Richard Nuttall has been appointed as business development manager having worked for the past six years in sales and marketing with a large national IT distributor, managing brands like Belkin and Verbatim. Bell Equipment UK has appointed Richard Higgott to its team as UK sales manager, filling a role previously held by recently promoted managing director, Nick Learoyd. Higgott brings extensive sales management experience to his new post, having held the position of north and national sales manager at Liebherr for the past two years. Before that, he held a sales role with heavy equipment manufacturer Terex. S h r e d d i n g t e c h n o l o g y provider UNTHA UK has paved the way for two senior promotions within the team. Neil Jefferies has taken on the role of UNTHA UK's finance director, whilst Marcus Brew has stepped into the position of sales director. These two newly created posts highlight the ongoing structure that is being added to this entrepreneurial business, as its customer base continues to expand. Movers & shakers Recycling thieves warned by council A council boss has warned that thieves who steal recycling bags from people's drives will be prosecuted and dragged through the courts, according to the Echo.co.uk. White bags, which residents leave out for Cory Environmental to pick up on behalf of Southend Council, are being reported stolen with increasing frequency across Southend and other parts of south Essex. The thefts are mainly down to the high re-sale price of textiles. Steven Crowther, Southend Council's waste team manager, told echo.co.uk that the council was treating the matter seriously and urged police and prosecutors to make an example of the thieves. Speaking to the media channel, he added: "We always push for arrests to go to court because it acts as a deterrent to others who think it's easy pickings. "When these cases have been taken to court in the past, they've been challenged by offenders who have said, if it's rubbish left on the highway then they have the right to take it." Community roundup

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