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WRAP reports significant progress on waste reduction

15 November 2011 | No comments

Speaking at WRAP’s annual conference yesterday, Chief Executive Dr Liz Goodwin published results of the organisation’s work over the past three years and set out its future agenda.

Community works together to clean up estate

4 November 2011 | No comments

Residents in Little Digmoor worked together with community partners to clean up their estate in a week of action.

Brent’s recycling vehicles promote breast cancer campaign

27 October 2011 | No comments

Brent Council’s waste management contractor Veolia Environmental   Services is encouraging Brent residents to ‘wear it pink’ tomorrow to help raise awareness of breast cancer.

Residents Get Recycling Right

12 October 2011 | No comments

Residents in areas of Brinnington, Cheadle Heath and Woodley have been competing to see who can put the most ‘right things in the right bin’.

Recycling more plastics

20 September 2011 | No comments

From the end of September West Oxfordshire householders will be able to recycle more.  

Improving medicine use and cutting wastage to be tackled

8 August 2011 | No comments

A new group set up to tackle the £300 million being lost every year in the NHS due to medicine wastage, at least half of which is avoidable, has been announced by Health Minister Lord Howe today.

Recycling for Alzheimers Society at Buccleuch Care Centre

1 August 2011 | No comments

UCCL now have an inkjet cartridge recycling facility; each cartridge which they recycle will result in their recycling partner making a one pound donation on the centres behalf to the Alzheimer’s Society, a leading charitable organisation which works to improve the life of people who are affected by dementia. 

Local and central government need to take e-waste seriously

18 May 2011 | No comments

System failures and abuses allow toxic tech to be shipped to Africa. A TOXIC flood of discarded technology is illegally leaving the UK to wash up in Africa, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals in its new report System Failure: The UK’s harmful trade in electronic waste

NHS missing out on £5.5m a year in potential savings

7 April 2011 | No comments

The Royal College of Nursing has revealed that the NHS could potentially save up to £5.5 million a year if health organisations improve the way they dispose of waste.

NHS Peterborough launches campaign to reduce £2.5 million wasted medicine

28 February 2011 | No comments

A campaign aimed at reducing an estimated £2.5 million wasted on medicines was been launched today (21 February) by NHS Peterborough.

New blood storage system to reduce waste

5 February 2011 | No comments

Theatres at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are set to benefit from a new blood storage system that will reduce the amount of blood used and improve patient safety due to a faster service.

Nine charged in biggest criminal probe into electrical waste exports

8 October 2010 | 1 comment

Two-year Environment Agency investigation uncovers e-waste ‘web’.