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Bin collections NEWS The month in resource management Technology AMCS Group gets €8.25m from bank DON'T MESS WITH CROYDON: TAKE PRIDE - Croydon Council, in Surrey, people about the range of existing and new council cleansing and enforcement fines and legal action will be used to punish those who break the law". 8 Local Authority Waste & Recycling August 2014 Repeat waste crime offender Joe Benson was sentenced to 16 months in prison at Snaresbook Crown Court for illegally export- ing 46 tonnes of hazardous elec- trical waste to Nigeria, Ghana, the Ivory Coast and the Congo. Broken cathode ray tube TVs and ozone depleting fridge freezers were found in containers inter- cepted at ports by EA investi- gators between September 2012 and April 2013. This is the first time a defend- ant has been sentenced to a custodial sentence for illegally exporting waste. Waste crime Essex man jailed for 16 months AMCS Group chief executive Jimmy Martin said: "We aim to work with partners and companies that truly understand our business model and the demands of the modern business environment. Silicon Valley Bank fulfils this aim, supporting entrepreneurial businesses such as ours through its deep sector knowledge." PINK BINS - Bin manufacturer Taylor has rolled out 12 pink-coloured recycling bins on the Brighton seafront. Taylor's bright coloured design, which was commissioned specifically for the city, intends to make the bins easy to spot and are already receiving positive feedback from users. Bury Council has announced that it could reduce household resid- ual waste collections from every two to every three weeks from October. The plans form part of the 'Bury Zero Waste Strategy', which the council hopes will boost its recy- cling rate from its current level of around 47%, to "more than 60%" by March 2016, while reducing waste treatment and disposal costs and cutting carbon emis- sions. The number of recycling collec- tions will rise even though black bin collections will decrease. Bury plans three- weekly collections Silicon Valley Bank has provided €8.25m in finance to Limerick-based waste management technology specialist AMCS Group. Wiltshire Council has chosen to replace some of their existing recycling vehicles with quality- used and re-manufactured vehicles from leading UK supplier Refuse Vehicle Solutions (RVS). Wiltshire Council fleet trans- port officer Ian Mckinnon said: "We needed to reduce our capital spend on vehicles and decided to look at the second hand market. We were impressed with the qual- ity of vehicles and workmanship delivered by RVS and since our initial order last year we have pur- chased additional vehicles." Wiltshire Council has currently purchased three used 'Recycling Kerbsiders', all Mercedes Econic chassis with Terberg bodies, and are pending the arrival of a fourth. All vehicles are operated by contractor Hill Waste Solutions. RCV Wiltshire links up with RVS An Essex-based waste and recy- cling company has been fined for safety failings after a worker suffered crush injuries when his arm was caught in an unguard- ed moving conveyor belt at its Harlow site. The incident happened last year to a 30-year old employee of GBN Services.GBN Services was fined £28,000 and ordered to pay costs of £2,777 after plead- ing guilty to health and safe- ty breaches. A GBN Services spokesman said that the firm deeply regretted the injury their employee suffered. It also said that it had overhauled its health and safety management sys- tem. He added: "Our employee remains in our employment and in due course we hope will return to the work he enjoys." Worker suffers crush injuries Health and safety The month in resource management DON'T MESS WITH CROYDON: TAKE PRIDE - Croydon Council, in Surrey, people about the range of existing and new council cleansing and enforcement fines and legal action will be used to punish those who break the law".

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