Government-commissioned review estimates 10% of items dispensed in primary care are overprescribed with 15% of people taking 5 or more medicines a day, increasing the risk of adverse effects Around 1 in 5 hospital admissions in over-65s are caused by the adverse effects of medicines Ministers accept all recommendations including introducing a new national clinical […]
This COVID-19 regulatory position statement (RPS) applies to: waste from cleaning people or places infected, or potentially infected, with coronavirus (COVID-19) separately collected personal protective equipment (PPE) waste, for example used facemasks and gloves, from commercial premises and produced as a result of social distancing measures Waste producers are not legally required to separate PPE waste from […]
Residents living in care homes for older people, those aged 70+, care workers and the ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ will be offered a third dose of a Covid-19 booster vaccine from September. The Covid-19 booster jab will be available as well as the annual flu vaccine from this September, health and social care secretary Sajid Javid […]
Data published by the Environment Agency on 1 December shows battery compliance schemes collected 4,839 tonnes of waste portable batteries in the third quarter of 2020. A total of 11,094 tonnes of waste portable batteries has been collected in 2020 so far, 69% of the target total of 16,088 tonnes. The UK target […]
20 November 2020, source edie newsroom Brands such as Nespresso, Nescafé Dolce Gusto and Tassimo have launched a new recycling initiative that aims to get the coffee sector collaborating on a simplistic way to enable consumers to recycle coffee pods in the UK. Podback is discussing kerbside collection for the pods with Exeter City Council, […]
Stars of the talented Southport Trinity Under 11s side have netted a bumper kit with one of the UK’s leading waste management firms. Gilston Waste Management, who are based in the town but operate across the UK, have dedicated a portion of their community sports fund to sponsoring the kits for the U11s side. Manager […]
Reading borough council has announced plans to roll out a weekly food waste collection service from February 2021. As part of the scheme, the council will provide houses and flats with 5 litre indoor kitchen food caddies and 23 litre outdoor food bins, which will be emptied weekly. Reading explained that the majority of residents […]
JUWC Enforcement Officers and Lancashire Police have raided a site near Blackburn which contains around 50,000 tonnes of landfill waste. Today the Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC) has conducted a successful raid on an illegal waste site in Lancashire as it continues to combat serious and organised waste crime across the UK. JUWC Enforcement […]
THOUSANDS of food waste collection bins are being removed from flats across the city, the Glasgow Times can reveal. Bins will be taken away from around 2,500 back courts across the north west and city centre within the next two weeks. Residents will be notified of the change in a letter which will detail how to continue […]
Proposals to launch an expanded ‘Recycle More’ kerbside collection service in Somerset with three-weekly rubbish waste collections were given the go-ahead on Friday (July 31st). The service will start in phases, with all of Mendip from the end of October, all of South Somerset next summer, then Sedgemoor and Somerset West and Taunton following after […]
