Good news for those needing skip hire in Cheshire, a skip hire business situated in ‘Golden Triangle’ countryside has been allowed to carry on as normal after a local council inspection. The inspector was there to determine whether the rapid expansion of the business had adversely affected the surrounding environment.
After much investigation, she found that [...]

You may remember we blogged about John Cooper last month, not the John Cooper, but the John Cooper that owns a business providing skip hire in Preston and the surrounding area. He faced charges of purjury after allegedly lying to a magistrates’ court about being on his mobile phone while driving.
Cooper refuted all [...]

If you were here on wednesday you may have read about the Essex Waste Management Partnership’s unmasking of the seven bidders for their £2bn contract. The announcement of the Essex shortlist came just days after plans were approved by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, John Denham, for a waste [...]

It’s hotting up in the race to secure the Essex Waste Management Partnership PFI-funded contract. The EWMP revealed this week that seven companies are in the running for the £2 billion deal which would see up to 350,000 tonnes of waste a year treated at newly developed mechanical biological treatment facilities.
The seven hopefuls are:
- Biffa
- [...]

Skip Hire Award To Be Handed Out

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We’re now in March, a fact you just can’t escape, just 3 months from the waste industry’s biggest awards ceremony at The Plant and Waste Recycling Show. The event is in its second year at Paignton Green and fills the gap that we all felt in our hearts when the Chartered Institute of [...]

“Somebody told me once that they put a man on the moon with a 64-bit computer, so these things, even though most people would laugh at them, they’re still very powerful” – IT consultant Brendan Geoghegan talking about some laptops he found in a skip. Brendan is just one of the many skip divers that [...]

Bit of industry news for you now – plans to build a recycling facility in Ware, Hertfordshire have been withdrawn after local paper the Mercury revealed some less than positive revelations about the work.
Details on the scheme show that the site would be used to handle rubbish from skip hire collections, not recyclables collected from [...]

Last week saw one of the worst fires in waste management history at the treatment centre of a company that provide skip hire in Brighton and the surrounding area. Firefighters spent the whole of Thursday night tackling a blaze at Kingspan Skip Hire in Moulscoomb as it ripped through over 50 tonnes of waste and [...]