We have been faced with a Regional Waste Plan, a consortium of 5 Local Authorities set up to contract for a joint residual waste “facility”,…
Category: Campaign Updates
November 2007: Nicola Day + DOVE’s Judicial Review of EA’s permission for Veolia to operate proposed incinerator quashed. The EA and Veolia say they did…
Update by Jeni Mackay Scottish Campaigns coordinator. CATs Scotland is currently working on the Waste framework Directive (WFD), IPPC and supporting Community groups facing efw…
ARROW has been running since December 1995. ARROW’s original aim was to stop a 3 million tonne landfill site, at Round O Quarry in West…
Discussion is around a 300,000 tpa facility for waste from around the region, including Warwickshire, some 35 miles away. Staffordshire County Council intends to submit…
Extensive lobbying by Keith Kondakor and others has improved the situation somewhat. Leicestershire County Council restored its 58% recycling target to its Expression of Interest…
In this corner of the world we have Barry ‘The Yorkshire Terrier’ Robinson, who sends his apologies. Despite being made homeless by the floods, and…
Joanna and LAIA – the Lincolnshire Anti-Incineration Alliance, are lobbying the Lincolnshire Waste Partnership to consider weekly collection of kitchen waste for AD, drawing on…
Professor John Dearden sent his apologies for the UKWIN AGM, as did Viv Mountford. They are busy, each in their own way, preparing for the…
Mirian from Safe Waste Shropshire reported that they are keeping tabs on Veolia’s Liaison Group and doing their best to get hold of their Waste…
Alice Massey reports: Autoclave services are being built in Gateshead and Teesside (mainly aimed at commercial customers), and aerobic MBT is operating (Premier), but there…