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Why is there so much conversation about cardboard?

It has long been cited as one of the most important materials for the UK to recycle. Clean, used cardboard and paper provides mills throughout the country with recovered fibre that they can then transform into new card, newspaper and tissue-based products.

The prices that these mills will pay for a tonne of recycled paper and cardboard have risen throughout the early months of 2016. There’...

There’s more to life than recycling

It may sound like a bold statement for a company like Riverside Waste Machinery to make. For almost two decades we’ve spoken to clients, colleagues, peers and the wider industry about the importance of recycling. We’ve encouraged people to think carefully about the materials they disregard as ‘rubbish’ and therefore throw away. We’ve shared tips to help prevent these valuable resources from being sent to landfill, and we’ve sold hundreds of balers t...

Soft drinks littering – widening our understanding

This week we praised the efforts of Coca-Cola and Keep Britain Tidy, who have launched a joint initiative to better understand why people littler soft drinks packaging.

It is obviously a subject close to the ‘hearts’ of both organisations, so it was fantastic to read about the efforts they are going to, t...

Does the waste sector need a little more ‘harmony’?

We’ve read a lot about the proposed standardisation of waste collection processes recently, with Defra Minister Rory Stewart reportedly in favour of a more consistent approach. He has claimed that a staggering £19m could be saved in London every year, if a single system was introduced. Roll that out across the country and the benefits could be phenomenal.

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How will an EU exit affect the UK waste and recycling industry?

Riverside’s managing director Jonathan Oldfield considers the likely impact on the waste and recycling industry, if Britain’s membership of the European Union comes to an end…

“Is Britain better off in or out of the EU? I’d love to get hold of Google’s statistics in a few months’ time, to learn how many people have explored this much-debated question.

Some think tank reports have suggested there’ll be a...

2016 – the year of the waste entrepreneur?

It perhaps seems unlikely to think that anyone outside the waste and recycling profession would consider our industry as rich in entrepreneurship. But the more you read about innovation at various stages of the supply chain, the more you see just how much clever thinking is taking place for the benefit of businesses and the environment alike.

Cambridge Dictionaries Online defines an entrepreneur as: ‘someone who ​Full article

Remember recycling when looking forward in 2016

When it comes to the resource landscape, technologies that address waste to energy challenges often attract a lot of attention. To a certain degree, that’s understandable. Innovations in this arena are helping the UK and overseas nations create fossil fuel substitutes from materials that could potentially be otherwise classed as, well, rubbish! And some of the progress being achieved in this market, as our planet strives to work environmentally smarter, truly is ground-bre...

Extra funding secured to tackle waste crime

Last month, Riverside was just one of a large number of organisations in the environmental sector to express grave concerns surrounding potential cuts to funding. But it seems the very vocal efforts of businesses large and small, have actually been heard.

Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the Environment Agency will receive an additional £20...