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Tidy Planet's Rocket Composter turns Warwickshire schools' food waste into compost

(10/06/2010)

With schools in Warwickshire spending almost £400,000 a year on waste disposal, Warwickshire County Council were keen for the schools to find an alternative method to landfill. Tidy Planet has won a contract to provide a new Rocket Composter to Warwickshire County Council for its office complex in Warwick, with the company already having the machines in place at its offices in Shire Hall and in five schools throughout the region. Tidy Planet first installed a Rocket composter at Shire Ha... [more]

Leading organisations commit to halve construction waste to landfill

(17/03/2009)

The reduction of construction waste is a key focus for the industry and WRAP's Halving Waste to Landfill commitment is a voluntary framework devised to help achieve a 50% reduction in construction, demolition and excavation waste sent to landfill by 2012. This initiative is viewed as environmentally and financially critical due to increasing costs of waste disposal. Since the commitment was launched in October 2008, over 60 organisations have now signed up to WRAP’s voluntary agreement - incl... [more]

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