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What's new?
Here are the most recent records for users in Cambridgeshire - click on the bold text for full details:
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Peterborough Green Festival… 24th May – 8th June 2008
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For an action-packed, family adventure, get involved with the Green Festival 2008! Join us for the launch event 24th May, Cathedral Square, Peterborough. The streets will be buzzing with live music and a host of hands on green challenges and activities…Each year the event is jam packed with environmental activities to get involved in, and even better it’s free! 2008 is set to be even bigger and better than last year as it marks 15 years of Peterborough’s commitment to all things green. Sample locally sourced, seasonal delights from the food stalls which you can enjoy guilt free in the knowledge you are helping to reduce food miles. Burn off a few calories on the cyclometer and find out how much harder you have to pedal to light a traditional tungsten light bulb compared with an energy saving one! Get your hands on a free ‘Get a Green Grip Peterborough’ natural cotton, reusable bag and make a pledge to use fewer environmentally damaging plastic bags. ….plus much, much more! |
| [ Notice submitted by IAN TENNANT on 25/04/2008 | Please visit www.pect.net/greenfestival.html ] |
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 | GREEN LIGHT FOR EASTEX AS NEW EU WASTE LEGISLATION SETS BINDING 2020 TARGETS FOR RE-USE!
Article submitted by IAN TENNANT, PECT, on 22/06/2008 |
| GREEN LIGHT FOR EASTEX AS NEW EU WASTE LEGISLATION SETS BINDING 2020 TARGETS FOR RE-USE!
New waste legislation for the EU will include targets for re-use and recycling of waste to be attained by 2020. The legislation also requires Member States to stick to a five-stage waste hierarchy: prevention, re-use, recycling, other recovery operations and, as a last resort, safe and environmentally sound disposal. This is designed to prevent and reduce waste production – and should be treated "as a priority order" rather than what is often currently seen as a "guiding principle". What is more, there are specific targets for re-use and recycling of commercial waste (i.e. 70% of non-hazardous construction and demolition waste by 2020). All of this is great news for re-use schemes like the Materials Exchange as there are currently few regulatory drivers or targets explicitly for commercial re-use or recycling. Viva la Eastex!!!
[ Article submitted by IAN TENNANT, PECT, on 22/06/2008 ]
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| EASTEX LAUNCHES NATIONAL MATERIALS EXCHANGE
Article submitted by ALUN HOUSAGO, NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, on 29/05/2008 |
| EASTEX LAUNCHES NATIONAL MATERIALS EXCHANGE
Tuesday 10 June 2008 will see the national launch of the Eastex Materials Exchange service. Local authorities, other public sector bodies and business across the UK will be invited to take on franchises to operate a materials exchange in their area. The launch will take place in Paignton at CIWM 2008, an internationally renowned conference and exhibition organised as a showcase for the waste industry by the leading professional body, the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management. For more information contact Alun Housago on 01603 222089 or to get your free ticket for the event please follow the link below.
[ Article submitted by ALUN HOUSAGO, NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, on 29/05/2008 ]
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| THE LAST RESORT - RELIANCE ON LANDFILL IS REDUCING
Article submitted by IAN TENNANT, PECT, on 05/04/2008 |
| THE LAST RESORT - RELIANCE ON LANDFILL IS REDUCING
It’s official - schemes like Eastex really are working! - The Environment Agency has released Waste Data Update from 2006 which shows nearly 20 percent less waste has been sent to landfill since 2000. The Waste Data Update is an annual report produced using data routinely collect by the Environment Agency from waste management sites it regulates. Keep up the good work.
More information can be found by following the link below
[ Article submitted by IAN TENNANT, PECT, on 05/04/2008 ]
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Who's been using Eastex?
There are now 8,119 Eastex members right across eastern England. Here's who's been using Eastex the most. Rankings are based only upon exchanges that we have been notified of, so please contact us if you have made an exchange: |
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Top five Eastex exchangers: |
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ADAM COLLINS
Norfolk |
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PINEAPPLE STORE
Norfolk |
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N/A
Wiltshire |
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JOHN LEWIS PLC (PETERBOROUGH BRANCH)
Cambridgeshire |
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REUSE RECYCLE
West Yorkshire |
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HM PRISON BLUNDESTON
Suffolk |
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PAPWORTH HOUSING ADVICE - EAST HERTS
Hertfordshire |
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BONUSPRINT
Hertfordshire |
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BORG SOLUTIONS
Suffolk |
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DLS MEDICAL
Cambridgeshire |
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