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ZERO WASTE VILLAGE WINS INNOVATION PROJECT OF THE YEAR AT THE WALES RECYCLING AWARDS
A zero waste village initiative, run by Monmouthshire Community Recycling (MCR)*, which has seen some of the best recycling r …
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ZERO WASTE VILLAGE WINS INNOVATION PROJECT OF THE YEAR AT THE WALES RECYCLING AWARDS (22/10/2008)
A zero waste village initiative, run by Monmouthshire Community Recycling (MCR)*, which has seen some of the best recycling rates in Europe with 95% of residents in the village of St Arvans recycling and recycling rates in urban North Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, almost doubling from 36% - 69%, in just three months, has won The Innovation Award in the Wales Recycling Awards, it was announced last night.
ALL CHANGE AS ECT GROUP MOVES IN NEW DIRECTION (03/06/2008)
ECT Group, one of the UK’s leading social enterprises, is moving in a new direction it was announced today. The Group, whilst retaining its commitment to the provision of high quality public services for the community and to sustainability and partnership working, is preparing for major changes in direction.
FESTIVAL WELLINGTONS GIVEN NEW LIFE IN AFRICA (30/05/2008)
Festival-goers coming to this year’s Glastonbury Festival are being urged to think green before they arrive. “Travel light, don’t bring unnecessary clutter and leave the site as you found it” is the watchword for 2008. The overall message is “Love the farm – leave no trace”.
BARNET AIMS TO RECYCLE 40% OF ITS WASTE BY 2010 IN NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH ECT RECYCLING (27/05/2008)
Adding plastic bottles and cardboard to the doorstep recycling collection service will help Barnet residents recycle even more, under a new five-year partnership between ECT Recycling and Barnet Council, it was announced this week.
RECYCLING ROCKETS IN EALING (01/03/2008)
Ealing has had a green start to the New Year with residents smashing all previous records for green box and food waste recycling.
WELSH MINISTER CELEBRATES SUCCESS OF ZERO WASTE VILLAGE (11/02/2008)
Residents of St Arvans Zero Waste Village were joined by Jane Davidson, Minister for the Environment, Sustainability and Housing for Wales, on Friday, to celebrate the success of the project seven months after it was launched.
MAKE YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION A GREEN ONE (31/12/2007)
Barnet to go ‘green’ in 2008. Start the year by making a recycling resolution.
ECT RECYCLING EXPANDS ITS WEST COUNTRY BASE WITH NEW MULTI-MILLION POUND 10-YEAR CONTRACT (05/11/2007)
Leading social enterprise, ECT Recycling, the UK’s largest community recycling provider, has signed a new multi-million pound 10-year contract with Bath and North East Somerset Council to provide doorstep recycling to the borough’s 75,000 households.
NEW COUNTY WIDE SOMERSET CONTRACT SET TO BOOST RECYCLING BEYOND 50% (15/10/2007)
The signing of a new contact between the Somerset Waste Partnership and ECT Recycling took place this week and paved the way for Somerset to reach record recycling rates.
MONMOUTH’S COMMUNITY RECYCLING TOPS WELSH ASSEMBLY RECYCLING LEAGUE (21/09/2007)
Monmouth Community Recycling (MCR) were delighted to find that they topped a recent Welsh Assembly survey, which identified their recycling operation as being one of the most cost effective recycling services in Wales. The Survey of Funding of Municipal Waste Management Kerbside Collection in Wales, which examined collection costs for recycling and rubbish services, was published on the 13th September.
ECT RECRUITS 50 NEW STREET CLEANSING OPERATIVES TO START WORK ON EALING'S STREETS (03/07/2007)
ECT has recruited a squad of 50 cleaners after Ealing Council agreed to spend an extra £1.5 million on cleaner street services this year and stepped up its promise to clean up the borough’s streets.
STREETS ARE GETTING CLEANER (19/06/2007)
The borough’s streets are getting cleaner according to independent inspection* figures released this week.
A NEW DAWN FOR RECYCLING SERVICES IN DONCASTER (28/03/2007)
DAWN Environmental a new joint venture between Community West Recycling Partnership and the UK’s leading community recycling organisation; ECT Recycling, will be providing doorstep recycling services to 68,000 households in the north and west of the borough from the 2nd April on behalf of Doncaster Council.
SAFETY FIRST FOR ECT (26/02/2007)
ECT, one of the UK’s leading social enterprises which provides a range of environmental and transport services, have been assessed by British Standards Institute and has been awarded the internationally accepted OHSAS 18001 accreditation standard in January 2007, in recognition of health and safety standards operated within ECT and the commitment made by ECT in putting health and safety issues at the top of its agenda.
'KING OF CLEAN' WINS COMMUNITY PRAISE (20/07/2006)
ECT’s street cleaner John Linehan has won hearts in his local neighbourhood of Northolt with his dedication and hard work.
BRYSON RECYCLING CHIEF HEADS TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE (17/07/2006)
Eric Randall, Director of Bryson Recycling, a social enterprise jointly owned by ECT and the Bryson Charitable Group, will soon head to Buckingham Palace to collect an MBE awarded for his contribution to waste management in Northern Ireland.
ECT HELPS LAUNCH THE BIG RECYCLE (08/06/2006)
ECT took centre stage this week when its Greenford Depot was used to launch the Big Recycle Campaign. The World Cup themed campaign aims to boost recycling of household waste during the World Cup, especially glass and cans.
ECT STARTS WORK ON LARGEST WASTE MANAGEMENT CONTRACT EVER AWARDED TO SOCIAL ENTERPRISE (28/02/2005)
Today (28 February) leading social enterprise ECT begins work on Clean and Green – an integrated waste management contract awarded by Ealing Council at the end of 2004. Worth around £9.8m a year, and initially for a seven year period, this is the largest waste management contract ever awarded to a social enterprise.
NEW YEAR, NEW RECYCLING SERVICE FOR CHISWICK PARK (07/01/2005)
ECT appointed to collect and recycle office materials A new, on-site recycling service for Chiswick Park, the office development in West London means office workers can make, and keep, a New Year’s resolution to recycle more in 2005.
SUCCESS FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE (15/12/2004)
ECT, one of the UK’s leading social enterprises, has won a major contract to provide recycling, refuse and street cleaning services to Ealing Council.
ECT RECEIVES TOP HEALTH AND SAFETY AWARD FROM BRITISH SAFETY COUNCIL (14/12/2004)
ECT, the UK’s largest community recycler, has received a five star health and safety rating from the British Safety Council – the highest rating an organisation can achieve. This means ECT is the first recycling organisation to be eligible to apply for the British Safety Council’s prestigious 2005 Sword of Honour award.
BRYSON HOUSE RECYCLING GOES FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH (18/11/2004)
Bryson House Recycling, an innovative social enterprise partnership between Bryson House and ECT, will soon be helping a quarter of homes in Northern Ireland recycle up to 40% of their rubbish.
CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR RESIDENTS TO TRIM THEIR WASTE LINE! (13/08/2004)
Barnet Council and ECT Recycling have launched a new campaign urging more residents in Barnet to reduce the amount of rubbish they put into their bin. Getting more people into the recycling habit is vital to reduce the amount of waste produced in the borough.
'EASY AND ECONOMIC' COMPOSTING SCHEME GOES WEST (02/08/2004)
A scheme that makes composting economically viable and easily enables residents to recycle over 50% of their rubbish has been adopted by three more councils, the social enterprise ECT announced today.
10% OF NORTHERN IRISH HOMES GET TO RECYCLE WITH KERBIE (02/08/2004)
Over 10% of households in Northern Ireland will soon be able to recycle from home, thanks to a new contract won by the community enterprise Bryson House Recycling.
NEW RECYCLING CENTRE OPENS NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMMUNITIES (21/04/2004)
This Wednesday (21st April), a new Recycling Showcase and Training Facility opened at ECT's recycling depot in Bristol, showing residents and businesses in the city the benefits of reducing, reusing and recycling more rubbish.
FINDINGS OF COMPOSTING STUDY POSES ‘QUANDARY’ FOR COUNCILS (19/04/2004)
A two-year study into the collection of organic waste from homes has found that making the service free makes it popular with residents but that it can also lead to the creation of more rubbish.
ECT WELCOMES BARNET COMPULSORY RECYCLING SCHEME (26/03/2004)
From the 1st April 2004, the London Borough of Barnet will be introducing a compulsory scheme to help encourage residents to recycle more of their rubbish.
ECT NAMED THREE TIMES IN TOP TEN OF COUNCIL RECYCLING SERVICES (22/03/2004)
A survey released by Friends of the Earth last Friday (19th March) into the state of council recycling services has named community recycler ECT three times in its list of ten best council recycling services.
BRYSON HOUSE AND ECT JOIN FORCES TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR NORTHERN IRELAND’S RESIDENTS TO RECYCLE FROM HOME (29/10/2003)
ECT has joined forces with Bryson House, Northern Ireland’s oldest community-based charity, to set up an innovative new recycling partnership.
ECT RECYCLING LAUNCHES NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH'S FIRST BOROUGH-WIDE MULTI-MATERIAL RECYCLING SCHEME (13/10/2003)
Nuneaton and Bedworth's first borough-wide multi-material recycling service enables residents to recycle a wide range of household rubbish from home.
ECT'S BARNET SERVICE TOPS RECYCLING TABLE (03/09/2003)
Barnet is leading the way on recycling - topping a table of North London Boroughs when it comes to re-using rubbish.
WEST COUNTRY RECYCLING SERVICES SAVED (21/08/2003)
The UK’s largest community recycling organisation ECT has stepped in to save recycling services provided to 400,000 households.
ECT WINS WARWICK RECYCLING CONTRACT (18/02/2003)
ECT Recycling has won a five-year contract with Warwick District Council to develop a range of recycling services.
KITCHEN WASTE NO LONGER – WEST LONDONERS WILL BE ABLE TO RECYCLE UP TO 50% OF THEIR HOUSEHOLD RUBBISH WITH NEW GREEN WASTE SCHEME (29/11/2002)
Vegetable peel, old fruit and tea bags need no longer end up as rubbish, thanks to a new West London pilot launched this month to turn kitchen scraps into compost .
HACKNEY’S GETS FIRST BOROUGH WIDE RECYCLING SCHEME (22/11/2002)
Hackney’s first borough wide recycling service will hit the streets from Spring 2003, thanks to a new 18 month contract worth £1.2 million, between Hackney Council and ECT Recycling.
ECT RECYCLING HELPS TOWER HAMLETS BOOST ITS RECYCLING SERVICES TO RESIDENTS BY ALMOST 50% (31/10/2002)
Residents in Tower Hamlets benefit from an improved doorstep recycling service
BARNET COUNCIL PARTNERSHIP NOMINATED FOR TOP RECYCLING AWARD (29/10/2002)
Barnet Council is in line for a prestigious award for its popular recycling services.
CHARITY APPEAL TO LOCAL GROUPS TO HELP RECYCLE PAINT MOUNTAIN (10/07/2002)
Community Re>Paint Lambeth has been inundated with so many donations that they have launched an appeal for more local projects to come forward to help put their growing paint mountain to good use.