Join us at our autumn webinar for market and regulatory updates
Following the success of our June webinar for WRA members, and with Covid restrictions in place for the foreseeable future, we've decided to make our autumn members' meeting another webinar, hosted on our behalf by CIWM. Join us on Wednesday 16th September from 2.30pm...
UK’s Waste Wood Processing Figures Continue To Rise Year on Year
The amount of waste wood processed in the UK rose again last year to 3.98 million tonnes, an increase of just over 6% on the previous 12 months. As predicted, UK exports of waste wood dropped dramatically by 39%, from 313,000 tonnes across the UK as a whole to...
Member Focus for A&A Recycling Services
A&A Recycling Services is an expanding and innovative waste management company. It was established in the 1990s and its core business was the repair, production and sale of pallets, as well as wood recycling. In 2001, it was purchased by A.W. Jenkinson Forest...
RWM Moved to November 2020
The organisers of RWM, the annual waste and recycling show usually held every September at the NEC, have announced the show will now take place in November due to Covid-19. You can read more details about the show in the text below, taken from the official media...
Waste Wood Sector Faces Lengthy Road Ahead to Recovery
Recovering from Covid-19 is going to be a long journey for businesses involved in the waste wood sector, delegates attending the Wood Recyclers’ Association summer meeting were told this week. Industry experts predict the fallout of the immediate decline in waste wood...
Waste Wood RPS extended to January 2021
The Environment Agency (EA) has extended a Regulatory Position Statement (RPS) on the use of mixed waste wood until January 2021, as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. The Waste Wood Classification (WWC) Project is being led by the Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA)...
WRA welcomes DEFRA guidance on reopening of HWRCs
The WRA has welcomed further guidance issued today by DEFRA on the reopening of HWRCs and in particular clarification over the issue of essential journeys. WRA Chair Andy Hill said: "I think it’s helpful for HWRC operators and local authorities to have clear guidance...
WRA Member Focus – UNTHA UK
UNTHA UK is one of the newest members to join the Wood Recyclers Association. UNTHA is no stranger to the world of wood recycling, with the company’s Austrian-engineered shredding technology having helped salvage ‘waste’ wood for remanufacturing and other reuse...
DEFRA asking for views in second Covid-19 survey of the waste & recycling sector
DEFRA has issued a second survey to the waste and recycling sector asking for the latest information on how the current Covid-19 situation is affecting the industry. The survey, which is about 30 minutes long, includes questions about staff numbers; absence rates;...
Andy Hill in ResourceHot100 again
Congratulations to WRA Chair Andy Hill who has once again been voted into the industry's Hot 100 organised by Resource Magazine. The full list can be viewed here.
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