Enviro Waste are back! We’ve been brainstorming over recent weeks about what content we can bring you to be more helpful, more actionable, and more interesting. Over the coming months, you’re going to see a few changes to the style of our blog...
Read more‘Plastic Free’ – Indestructible Packaging, Perishable Items, New Labelling
There’s a new label hitting the shelves of the UK. Food packaging manufacturers will begin using a new ‘plastic free’ label. Plastic Free A Plastic Planet is an organisation set up to ‘turn off the tap’ on plastic production, using four pillars...
Read moreMenu: Commercial Waste Services in London
Commercial Waste Services in London Menu Welcome to the Enviro Waste Menu for our Commercial Waste Services in London. Many business owners in this region believe that they need to work with five different services to solve five different issues...
Read moreIncineration Will Soon Overtake Recycling Rates. Is That So Bad?
Waste incineration levels are on the cusp of leapfrogging recycling rates in the UK… …and as it stands, there’s pretty much nothing we can do about it. Among the many environmental groups who are warning about dangerous air pollution...
Read moreThe Government Doesn’t Know If Your Waste Exports Are Being Recycled
The BBC reported recently, in a shocking twist, that they no longer know if our nation’s exported packaging waste is being recycled. To put it bluntly, that’s bad news. After China more or less shut up shop back in January 2018 (read here and...
Read moreThe Demise of the DMR Bin
Once upon a time… The waste industry conjured up the idea of a single, comprehensive bin that could accept most of the commonly recycled packaging materials, like paper, cardboard, plastic, and cans. Thus, the Dry Mixed Recycling bin was...
Read moreThe China Plastic Ban – Have We Responded Well?
As we reported a couple of months ago when China began enforcing its latest plastic ban, we felt that this shake-up would be a huge boon to the UK recycling industry, offering an immediate wake-up call and opportunity that would break the...
Read moreThe Mysterious Journeys of Hazardous Waste Part Three
After the positive feedback we received for the Mysterious Journeys of Hazardous Waste Part One and Part Two, we are very pleased to return with the third installation of this journey, and oh what a journey it has been so far! Already we...
Read moreThe Enviro Waste Guide To Multi-Use Office Waste
Based on some interesting discussions with a few of our customers, we felt it would be a welcomed idea to create a guide setting out the main recycling, reuse, and waste management challenges and solutions for businesses renting space in...
Read moreLast Minute Material: No Space for Storage in Central London
As we covered recently in our industry-insider piece on effective waste logistics management for the construction industry in London, our capital city, like many towns and cities in the UK, has a massive problem with a lack of space, ridiculous...
Read moreThe Best of GDPR – The Build-Up Round-Up
Part of GDPR was designed to stop spam emails, but unless you were living without an email address, you will have noticed that the frequency of unwanted emails dramatically rose in the weeks leading up to May 25th. Let’s hope that in the two...
Read moreFinding a Solution, With Barry Lamb, Senior Commercial Account Manager
Please give a warm welcome to Barry Lamb, Senior Commercial Account Manager at Envirowaste since October 2015. This is our second interview with Barry, who was so great the first time around that we had some more questions for him regarding his...
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