Bakers Waste Services Ltd are celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2019 Pictured are four of Bakers Waste’s buzzing apprentices; working across multiple departments demonstrating a new era for the company following a finance deal with HSBC and BIG plans publicised in the Leicester Mercury. Charlie Ludbrook Going from right to left, we have the newest member…
Marks & Spencer outline environmental and recycling plans The major British multinational retailer that is Marks & Spencer is taking action to prevent plastic waste from going to landfill by launching a new advantage, which will enable customers to bring back non-recyclable plastic packaging to their stores. The company want to do this as part…
IKEA Refurbished Furniture and Environmental Plans The world’s largest furniture retailer, IKEA, is trialling the sale of used and repaired furniture in the UK as part of its efforts to become more environmentally friendly. It is estimated that most sofas and chairs consist of 30% wood, 11% steel, 18% polypropylene, 20% polyurethane, 10% polyester, 7%…
What are your Recycling Resolutions in 2019? With 2018 drawing to a close we have been pleased to see a number of businesses questioning their waste management practices and looking for a more environmentally friendly solution. We are constantly striving to offer our customers more options to segregate waste at source and reduce product going…
New government plans for recycling mean shops and manufacturers could face paying up to a BILLION pounds a year. Currently, the figure sits at around £70million a year, but according to the National Audit Office; local authorities spent over £700million on collecting and sorting recycling in 2017, this could also raise to a billion pounds…
Recent BBC documentary, Drowning In Plastic, explained and displayed how trillions of plastic waste will affect our beautiful planet if we don’t change our ways immediately. Followed up by the disgusted reactions on Gogglebox, we are going to go through the main issues and how to react to them efficiently. Click here to view the…
Remember when looking into your child’s school supplies for the new school year, you probably have an abundance of things from the previous year which you can still use. This is a perfect example of reusing and what’s more, is the brand new supplies you may need to add to this can be recycled products…
Tesco has decided to start selling water in cans rather than plastic bottles, they’re the first supermarket to do this and they now offer spring water in 500ml aluminium cans through brand CanO in 700 stores! A recycled can takes a lot less time to be able to reuse than a plastic bottle does. Ariel…
The National Health Service, established in 1948, some 70 years ago. To celebrate such a huge landmark, Bakers Waste have investigated the huge increase and improvement in the way the NHS manage their recycling. The NHS is now recycling the equivalent to ‘forty-four elephants’ per year. Normanton distribution centre has stated they want to ‘create…
MCDONALDS TO DITCH PLASTIC STRAWS McDonalds have stated that they are going to replace plastic straws with paper ones at the beginning of September 2018. They are the latest company to opt-out of using plastic products, in only 1 day the restaurants in the UK can use up to 1.8 million straws per day. Plastic…