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Ethos Recycling signs the WRAP construction commitment to halve waste to landfill (April 2009)   

Ethos Recycling commit to playing his part in halving the amount of construction, demolition and excavation waste going to landfill by 2012. We will work to adopt and implement standards for good practice in reducing waste, recycling more, and increasing the use of recycled and recovered materials"

For further details and to check the Wall of Fame:

http://www.wrap.org.uk/construction/halving_waste_to_landfill/wall_of_fame.html 

Ethos Recycling expands its Clinical Waste Treatment Capability (08/04/2009)   

Ethos Recycling, the owner and operator of the Avonmouth clinical waste treatment facility (steam sterilization, pyrolysis and gasification treatment plant), has purchased the full assets and freehold of the Cliniserve Autoclave facility based in Littlehampton.

In the next few months, Ethos Recycling will install a second Autoclave plant in order to offer additional capacity and further flexibility to new and existing customers.
SRCL Limited, a subsidiary of US-based company Stericycle Inc, will guarantee to supply Ethos Recycling with 3,500 tonnes of waste per annum for two years.

Ethos Recycling further enhance its plasterboard waste collection service in order to respond to the new regulation on the disposal of gypsum based material.

Details can be found at:

http://www.ethosrecycling.co.uk/services/plasterboard-waste-collection-and-recycling.html

http://www.ethosrecycling.co.uk/plasterboard-waste.html

Paperless Waste Transfer Notes (01/07/2008)

Ethos recycling to revolutionise the waste recycling industry by introducing a new paperless ticketing system.

Ethos Recycling is one of the UK's first waste recycling companies to simplify and automate the waste collection process by installing mobile data communication systems in its vehicles and implement a ‘paperless ticketing’ system.As of 1 July 2008, we will progressively be introducing the new system. It will significantly improve route and load efficiency, minimise environmental impact, eliminate errors and automate many tasks. The new handheld device sits in a cradle on the vehicle dashboard and works in unison with a feature rich software package that simplifies and accelerates the everyday tasks. Collection and delivery details are transmitted from the office compute to the vehicle via mobile phone technology. From the above dates, your staff on site will no longer need to keep paper copies of the Waste Transfer Notes, these will be stored electronically. We will require them to input their full names and to sign electronically on the handheld devices. Electronic Waste Transfer Notes will be automatically produced and emailed to nominated contacts on completion of each transaction (normally within 15 minutes of the transaction being signed) in order to provide you with a full audit trail (including signatures) for Duty of Care compliance. This system brings many benefits amongst them:

• It produces less paper, saving a valued resource and reducing our carbon
• No more lost tickets as they are stored electronically
• More accurate records
• Secure transactions. Once you have signed we cannot alter the information relating to this transaction
• An electronic copy of the Waste Transfer Note can be sent to numerous people including your accounts department as back up to your invoice. It saves time and administration
• It is the first step to the future introduction of paperless billing.
   

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Travel ahead in time with London Wildlife Trust and find out what gardens might be like in the future.

This year London Wildlife Trust is taking its Future Garden to RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show – a garden that explores how gardeners can adapt to our changing climate and maximise sustainable living. The garden will also highlight which species might be common in the gardens of the future – from the striking striped wasp spider to the bright yellow golden oriole bird.

A vision of the future

London Wildlife Trust’s Future Garden combines sustainable wildlife friendly planting with a 1950s aesthetic, using clean lines, shiny surfaces, primary colours and geometric shapes that mirror nature – things like honeycombs, beetles and butterflies.

Exploring which species might be common in the gardens of the future, household rubbish becomes beautiful sculptures made from recycled materials. Other innovative features include a habitat wall, bottle top gravel, flood and drought areas, plus a striking bike wheel bird feeder. We even find a useGardens are crucial in our efforts to cope with the effects of climate change. They can offer shade, absorb carbon and help to cool buildings. They are part of a green matrix that allows species to move and adapt. In 2007 London Wildlife Trust’s garden campaign kept the loss of gardens in the public eye. In 2008 we want to get people gardening for the future. Let's encourage gardeners to grow with our changing climate and wildlife in mind. We all need to understand the value of gardens when it comes to tackling climate change. for an old satellite dish!
London Wildlife Trust’s Future Garden combines playful design with an important message. It will show you creative ways to adapt your green space to cope with climate change, and how to garden in an environmentally sensitive way that benefits both people and wildlife.

Crucial green pockets

Make the pledge

"London Wildlife Trust’s Future Garden aims to highlight the incredible importance of gardens and green spaces to wildlife and to people. In urban areas especially, gardens will help reduce the impact of climate change. Gardens soak up flood water like sponges and allow it to evaporate slowly and so cool over-heated cities at night. Green spaces provide vital habitat for wildlife and a strong network of gardens stretching across our cities will provide room for species to move and adapt.

"London Wildlife Trust wants all gardeners to pledge to do one thing for wildlife this summer, be it something as simple as planting a broad leafed tree or shrub to digging a pond or creating a living roof. We all have the power to make a huge difference and we all have a responsibility to do our bit in the face of climate change" says Chief Executive of London Wildlife Trust, Carlo Laurenzi, OBE.

Reuse and recycle

The Future Garden is sponsored by Ethos Recycling Ltd. Jerome Mingaz, Director of Sales and Marketing, explains: "we are proud to show our continued support to the London Wildlife Trust by sponsoring the Future Garden and their important mission to design and build a sustainable garden using recycled materials recovered mostly from our recycling plants. Our green spaces are becoming more important than ever for nature and for people, as we face up to the effects of climate change. The garden is a good example of how waste such as bicycle wheels, can be re-used to help improve our surrounding, by sending less waste to landfill, it impacts positively on our environment and demonstrates Ethos Recycling commitment to the environment, with the future in mind."

Find out more on

http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/Projects/TheFutureGarden/tabid/284/Default.aspx

- our ‘Vision of the future’ feature includes sketches, pictures and interviews with the artists and designers involved with the project, not to mention useful mini guides to wildlife gardening.

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Ethos recycling first time at SED

Ethos Recycling is an environmentally friendly provider of waste management services. The company is setting the standard in the industry and will be making its debut at this year’s SED to raise industry awareness – and help minimise your waste disposal costs.

Ethos Recycling specialise in recycling construction and demolition waste. The company has invested substantially in sophisticated machinery and can boast consistent material recovery rates of 90 %.(compared with industry averages of 35%). Ethos Recycling , Unlike many other waste management companies, send very little collected waste to landfill sites.

The Chancellor Gordon Brown announced in his last budget an increase from April 2008 in the Standard rate of Landfill Tax by £8 per tonne per annum until at least 2010/11. This means the current rate of £24 per tonne per annum in April 2007 will be increased to £32 per tonne per annum from April 2008. This is a 32% annual increase.

With this mandatory legislation coming into force in April 2008, construction and demolition companies will need to produce "Site Waste Management Plans" and will be looking very closely at who can provide the best solutions.

Ethos Recycling operate within the South East of England, offering a range of services to assist with Site Waste Management Plans. Construction waste collection: skip hire, rollonoff, wheeled bins, rear end loader(REL). Construction Waste recycling, Plasterboard waste collection & recycling, Muckaway, Land regeneration and a nationwide Special waste collection and disposal service.

Ethos Recycling will be launching its new look website at the end of January 2008 – so make sure you check out www.ethosrecycling.co.uk for full details of what they can offer your company.Contact: Bally Gill

Ethos Recycling client list include BAA, terminal 5 at Heathrow and also, high street giants, Marks and Spencer.

SED 2008 at Rockingham Motor Speedway, Corby Northants from 13th – 15th May 2008.

ETHOS RECYCLING LTD
Avenue: PAV
Stand: 98
Pavilion

Grand Union Office Park
Pocket Boat Lane, Cowley
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB8 2GH
UK

Tel: 0844 844 0180
Fax: 0844 844 0812
Contact: Marketing Department

e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Web: www.ethosrecycling.co.uk

To find out more visit: http://www.sed.co.uk/index.php

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• Estimate the amount and type of waste that will be used – for example, inert, non-hazardous, or hazardous - which you expect to be produced.
• Show how you intend to improve efficiency in using materials.
• Set out how you intend to reuse, recycle and lawfully dispose of such waste.
• Update the SWMP during the project as necessary.
• Measure actual performance, against estimates.

Each project needs one SWMP, it is a live document that needs to be updated through the course of the project, atleast every three months. Listed below are the responsibilities of both the client and the principal contractor:

Client:

• producing the initial SWMP before construction work begins
• appointing the principal contractor
• passing the SWMP to the principal contractor
• updating the SWMP at least every three months if you decide to manage the project yourself.

Principal contractor:

• obtaining relevant information from sub-contractors
• updating the SWMP at least every three months as the project progresses
• keeping the SWMP on site during the project
• ensuring that other contractors know where the SWMP is kept
• allowing other contractors and the client access to the SWMP during the project
• handing the completed SWMP back to the client at the end of the project
• keeping a copy of the SWMP for two years.