Our battle with recycling is ongoing and finding solutions to increasing waste levels that can be converted into recycling rather than being disposed of in landfill, is the main target. With China’s plastic ban and the limited recycling and treatment capacity for plastics, the European...
January 2019 What are we contacting you about? In our last public briefing note (October 2018) we informed you that we had received an application from Gent Fairhead & Co. Ltd (‘the company’) requesting a variation to the company's environmental permit for the Rivenhall Integrated Waste Management...
"Our role at the Environment Agency is to protect and enhance the environment. We would not permit any operation that we know would cause harm to the environment or people’s health. We assess permit applications (including variations) thoroughly to make sure that all aspects that...
Waste management company; Indaver, has entered into an agreement with Gent Fairhead & Co Limited (GFC), to work together on the final development stages of a proposed Integrated Waste Management Facility in Rivenhall, Essex...
On Monday 12th October a meeting of the IWMF Site Liaison Group was held at the Rivenhall Hotel; near to the site of the proposed IWMF. The group was established as part of the planning legal agreement. This was to provide a forum for local residents...
Indaver shares their insight into the development of energy-from-waste (EfW) over the years and outlines the many ways by which developers work to ensure that their plants do not pose a risk to human health. The public often worries that energy-from-waste (EfW) plants are causing pollution...
In last week’s Budget, plans were announced to tax plastic packaging that contains less than 30% recycled content, while a possible incineration tax has been left for future consideration. Indaver is members of the ESA, the trade association representing the UK’s resource and waste management...
Indaver specialises in turning waste into energy using state-of-the-art plants. Here they outline the many benefits this process has to our economy, both locally and nationally. People often think that waste sent to an Energy from Waste (EfW) plant is incinerated, disappears and is lost to society. In...
Waste management experts from Indaver explain exactly what the process is when disposing of the bin bags left outside the front of our houses. From plastic bags to plastic straws, the litter that destroys the environment is becoming a big concern for society and the damage...
Preventing global warming, looking after the environment and general waste solutions are a huge topic on everyone’s minds at the moment with recent announcements and the likes of Sir David Attenborough’s Blue Planet shocking people into action. There are so many small changes businesses can make...