Volume 1, Issue 5, 17th November 2005
31 Alloa Business Centre
Whins Road
Alloa FK10 3SA
RAGS NEWS: Annual General Meeting
Breaking news
To be held at 1pm on the
14 December 2005
The Attic Room, The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling, FK8 1DE
After an eventful year at RAGS, our AGM promises to be particularly interesting Come along and hear about the changes at RAGS, our plans for the forthcoming year and how we intend to support you. Let us know what you think and actually get involved in making RAGS membership work for you in 2006. Formal notification letters were posted to our members on Monday the 14th of November. Forms for submission of resolutions and for nominating members to the RAGS executive were included with the notice All such forms must be returned to the RAGS office by the 7th of December.
Alex Johnstone, MSP for Angus and the Conservative Rural Development & Environment Spokesperson in the Scottish Parliament, will today call for the greater use of Advanced Thermal Treatment (ATT) to address Scotland's record on recycling.
Click here for a copy of the AGM notice as issued on 14th November 2005
GENERAL: RAGS Meeting - Sustainable Management of Waste from Business & Public Sector Organisations
SEPA: Is it waste?
For those of you that missed our last e-bulletin, a reminder that The Scottish Executive is consulting on a National Framework for non household (i.e. Commercial and industrial) waste, to move Scotland further towards a culture of waste prevention, recycling, composting and other such technology for reduce residual.
This consultation should be of interest to all our members. For your convenience, RAGS has produced a summary of the consultation. This is available online at the RAGS website. Responses to the Scottish Executive are due by the 16th of December 2005. Have a look - if you feel you want to get involved, RAGS members will be meeting in Alloa at 10:30am on the 8th of December 2005. Call the RAGS office on 0845 838 1141 for more details.
SEPA have reviewed their framework of factors to be considered in establishing whether a particular substance or object is likely to fall within the scope of the definition of waste given in the Waste Framework Directive.
Click here for the full consultation document from the Scottish Executive
REGULATORY: Recent prosecutions...
SEPA: Hazardous Waste
- A Fife scrap yard operator has been fined £500 for failing to store vehicles, waste and lead acid batteries correctly
SEPA have published the second edition of their guidance document interpreting the definition and classification of hazardous waste
Click here for more information
- Man was fined £750 for knowingly causing controlled waste to be treated in or on land by burning waste material at a farm
- Local Authority fined for failing to adequately cover landfill and to allowing polluted waste water to leak from containment system
GENERAL: Two new local authority recycling plants open - in Dingwall & Greenock
Aluminium: can price increase
Inverclyde Council have just opened their new sorting plant in Greenock. The new plant will sort material collected from over 40,000 households and recycling points in the Inverclyde area, The council's recycling rate was 5.5% in 2003/04 and is now expected to reach 20% in 2006 - click here for more details.
Highland Council opened a new recycling centre in Dingwall, their 21st in region. It is anticipated that Highland Council will be recycling around 18% of its municipal waste by March 2006 - click here for more details.
On the 1st of November, Novelis increased the price it pays for used cans to £50 per tonne - the first increase since March 2004.
Click here for the full story
GENERAL: INCREASE Programme 2005-06 - Closing date for applications is the 25 November!
Market Prices : PRN
This Market report for the week ending
November 11th 2005 is brought to you courtesy of
The Environment Exchange
Plastic traded between £40.00 and £44.00 in good volume, closing at £44.00, up £2.00 from last week's close.
Paper traded between £12.75 and £13.00 in good volume, closing at £12.75, unchanged from last week's close.
Steel traded between £185.00 and £198.00 in fair volume, closing at £185.00, down £13.00 from last week's close.
Glass traded from £14.50 up to £15.50 in fair volume, up £1.00 from last week's close.
Recovery traded at £3.00 in modest volume, unchanged from last week's close.
Aluminium traded between £240.00 and £250.00, closing at £245.00, up £5.00 from last week's close.
Wood traded at £12.50 in light volume, unchanged from last week's close.
Don't forget - RAGS members will be meeting at the Coach House Trust on the 30th of November to talk organics recycling........ This half day event promises to be of interest to both those who want to learn more about the role of the community sector in recycling and to those who want to find our more about successful composting and timber recycling.
PLASTICS: Recovered PET packaging trials
Coca-Cola and Boots are testing the use of recovered PET packaging on the high street as part of WRAP's ongoing efforts to further increase retailer awareness of the possibility of using recycled plastic in their packaging . Various Coca Cola Enterprise Ltd products will be sold including a 25% recycled material content and Boots will be using a 30% reprocessed material content in packaging for its "Ingredients" shampoo range.
SEPA: Consultation on future PPC Subsistence Charge s
A consultation on the proposed PPC subsistence charges for 2006-07 has been issued by SEPA. Closing date for responses to the SEPA is the 27 January 2006.
RAGS News: Website update
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