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Government pledges to reduce overprescribing of medicines
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…
Cleansing and PPE waste at a healthcare waste management facility: RPS C1
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…
Care staff, elderly and clinically extremely vulnerable to get Covid booster from September
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…
Battery collection target for 2020 ‘within reach’
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…
Podback: Coffee brands join forces on UK pod recycling scheme
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…
Gilston Waste Management Sports Fund, Supporting Southport Trinity Junior Football Club
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…
Reading rolls out food waste service
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…
Waste crime taskforce conducts raid on site in Great Harwood, Lancashire
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…
Thousands of Glasgow food waste bins to be removed
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…
Boosted recycling service and 3-weekly rubbish collection in Somerset approved
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…
