Industry News
Defra: A Canning Town family business has gone from employing just 3 people to turning over £4m a year, on the back of threefold growth in the UK recycling industry. Since its small scale beginnings 25 years ago, used clothing has become increasingly valuable and the recycling sector has tripled its turnover to more than £10bn a year.
Lawrence M Barry (LMB) Clothes Recycling Centre has grown to employ over 170 staff and work with partners across the globe. Each week, it collects & sorts up to 200 tonnes of clothing which is exported for re-use in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. LMB were the first recycling/waste company to win the Queen’s Award for Export Achievement in 1997.
Britain’s exports of recovered materials are worth more than £4bn a year to the nation’s economy. Since 1998, around 8,000 jobs have been created in the UK recycling sector, which now employs more than 30,000 people.
Defra: A new food waste recycling facility which supports economic growth and a healthy environment was opened by Defra Minister of State David Heath recently. Wessex Water’s sewage treatment works in Avonmouth could create jobs & new business opportunities and is the first such facility in the area.
Built & operated by Wessex Water subsidiary GENeco, the new anaerobic digestion plant can annually turn 40,000 tonnes of food waste into a renewable energy supply equivalent to serving 3,000 homes.
It also produces a nutrient-rich organic fertiliser to help local farmers reduce their costs and reliance on non-organic chemical fertilisers. The plant solves a serious business problem caused by the growing costs of both electricity and of waste disposal, turning a problem into a resource.
It also produces a nutrient-rich organic fertiliser to help local farmers reduce their costs and reliance on non-organic chemical fertilisers. The plant solves a serious business problem caused by the growing costs of both electricity and of waste disposal, turning a problem into a resource.
STFC: Cheaper & solvent-free chemistry processes, central for mining, pharmaceutical and other industries will be better understood after scientists for the first time, observed chemical reactions in a mechanical mill in situ and in real time.
10 DS: Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a major Government investment in Tech City. The Government will put £50m towards a visionary project to regenerate the Old Street roundabout, which will see it transformed into Europe’s largest indoor civic space, dedicated to start-ups & entrepreneurs in East London.
This new civic building will host classrooms, co-working spaces & workshops equipped with the latest 3D printing technology, for use by both the local start-ups and the wider community.
This new civic building will host classrooms, co-working spaces & workshops equipped with the latest 3D printing technology, for use by both the local start-ups and the wider community.
