Vol 1, Issue 3, 18th October 2005
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RAGS NEWS
SEPA Annual Report
Welcome to Issue 3 of the new look RAGS e-bulletin. In this edition, we roll out our colour coded digest of interesting news items over the last fortnight. How much correspondence do you receive every day telling you about news and developments in recycling? As part of our ongoing development of members services we are aiming to read them all for you, digest them and forward you the links to some of the most interesting stories .... it is early days for this so feedback would be useful.
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SEPA has released its annual report for 2004-2005 detailing information on their performance and finances. Highlights of the year include progress on the national waste plan; waste data digest report and fly-tipping campaign.
RAGS Membership Information Forms
The Environment Agency has conducted a study to compare the effectiveness of packaging waste management systems in a number of EU Countries. The study analyses packaging waste systems in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and the UK's and then conducts a comparative analysis of the system. Click here for more information
Have you returned your RAGS members information form yet?? Unless we know what you do, we can't target our services appropriately.. get them back to us! If you have lost yours, contact Claire at the RAGS office
One week to go! With presentations from Gordon Jackson (Scottish Executive), Stratton MacDonald (South Ayrshire) and John Crawford (East Ayrshire Council), this is promising to be a popular event.Spaces are filling up fast - have you got your ticket yet???
We are keen to get as many of our members together to celebrate our re-launch and we understand that not all of you can afford the ticket... therefore we have started a . All you have to do is send us an email and tell us why you should win a ticket..... its as simple as that. Click below to enter.
This Market report for the week ending
October 14th 2005 is brought to you courtesy of
The Environment Exchange
Recovery traded from £3.00 down to £1.75 in excellent volume, down £1.25 from last week's close.
- Glass traded from £14.50 down to £14.25 in good volume, down 25p from last week's close.
- Steel traded between £180.00 and £185.00 in fair volume, closing at £182.50, up £2.50 from last week's close.
- Paper traded at £13.00 in modest volume, down 25p from last week's close.
- Wood traded from £13.50 up to £13.75 in modest volume, up 25p from last week's close.
- Plastic traded at £44.50 in light volume, unchanged from last week's close.
- No trading in Aluminium this week.
Consultation: Sustainable Management of Waste from Business & Public Sector Organisations
This Scottish Executive consultation seeks your view on the development of a framework for non-municipal waste in Scotland. Follow the link below for more details. RAGS will be responding to this consultation on behalf of our members. A briefing note will be posted on our website shortly - if you would like to express an interest in attending a meeting to help compile our response, please click here and further details will be sent out to you in due course
Responses to the Scottish Executive are due by the 16th of December 2005.
Perth & Kinross Council's efforts to encourage businesses to minimise the amount of waste they create have been rewarded with a national award, presented on Wednesday 5 October 2005 in Glasgow. The Perth and Kinross Waste Minimisation for Business initiative was judged to have made an outstanding contribution to the waste industry in Scotland and has carried off the Best Waste Minimisation Initiative crown at the Eventful Scotland Awards.
New look RAGS website
Have you had a chance to look at our new website yet (www.rags.org.uk)? We're uploading new information to it every week. This week sees the launch of our new members portal, with online discussion boards and access to additional resources not available in the public area. Let us know what you think....
Have you got your yet? If not, please click here.......
The Integrated Composting Programme
RAGS HOTLINE
The UK's biggest ever study into composting practices has reported its findings. The report funded through the landfill tax credit scheme (Sita Trust) looks a series of seven projects, analysing different aspects of the composting chain including: methods of collecting organic waste, setting up different types of composting facilities and investigating potential end-markets for compost.
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