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Expert advice for dealing with each type of trade waste
|Date: 29 August, 2024

Expert advice for dealing with each type of trade waste
More than four in five (83%) UK tradespeople aren’t sure what trade waste they can and can’t recycle. Aft ...
More than four in five (83%) UK tradespeople aren’t sure what trade waste they can and can’t recycle. After a new report found that plastic waste by the UK construction industry is growing 15 times fa ...
29 August, 2024
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Green Doors “We started in a skip. Ten years on, we’re still going strong”
|Date: 28 August, 2024

Green Doors “We started in a skip. Ten years on, we’re still going strong”
Joseph Holman’s ‘side hustle’ has now grown into a £2m turnover business which employs over 20 staff and ...
Joseph Holman’s ‘side hustle’ has now grown into a £2m turnover business which employs over 20 staff and saves thousands of doors from being dumped into landfill. “I pulled a set of French doors out o ...
28 August, 2024
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Dulux Decorator Centre’s can recycling scheme reaches the one million milestone
|Date: 24 October, 2022

Dulux Decorator Centre’s can recycling scheme reaches the one million milestone
Dulux Decorator Centre has received a staggering one million paint cans under its can recycling scheme. T ...
Dulux Decorator Centre has received a staggering one million paint cans under its can recycling scheme. Thanks to the initiative, Dulux Decorator Centre is improving the environmental efficiency of th ...
24 October, 2022
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Certain types of builders’ waste could be scrapped
|Date: 13 June, 2022

Certain types of builders’ waste could be scrapped
It’s been a particular hobby horse of ours for years, of course, but finally there are signs that this on ...
It’s been a particular hobby horse of ours for years, of course, but finally there are signs that this one at least could finally be destined for the knacker’s yard. Or more appropriately, perhaps, th ...
13 June, 2022
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Dulux Decorator Centre hits sustainability milestone by recycling over half a million paint cans
|Date: 14 June, 2021

Dulux Decorator Centre hits sustainability milestone by recycling over half a million paint cans
Dulux Decorator Centre has successfully diverted more than half a million cans of paint away from landfil ...
Dulux Decorator Centre has successfully diverted more than half a million cans of paint away from landfill through its in-store recycling scheme. The initiative allows professional decorators to safel ...
14 June, 2021
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Tarmac first to launch 50% recycled content packaging for cement products
|Date: 26 March, 2021

Tarmac first to launch 50% recycled content packaging for cement products
Tarmac has become the first major cement manufacturer in the UK to move to 50 per cent recycled plastic i ...
Tarmac has become the first major cement manufacturer in the UK to move to 50 per cent recycled plastic in its packaging with the roll out of new all-weather, fully recyclable hybrid bags. Products ma ...
26 March, 2021
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Call for end to single-use plastic in construction
|Date: 26 June, 2019

Call for end to single-use plastic in construction
Hot on the heels of the recent #TradesTalk discussion on excessive packaging in construction, the Nationa ...
Hot on the heels of the recent #TradesTalk discussion on excessive packaging in construction, the National Federation for Builders (NFB) has said the industry must reduce its dependence on single-use ...
26 June, 2019
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The trades call for reduced packaging on construction products
|Date: 13 June, 2019

The trades call for reduced packaging on construction products
This week's #TradesTalk discussion on Twitter was one of the most popular this year - and it looked at th ...
This week's #TradesTalk discussion on Twitter was one of the most popular this year - and it looked at the issue of waste and recycling for the building trades. If you'd like to talk to other trades, ...
13 June, 2019
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Builders Could Recycle Waste
|Date: 15 June, 2018

Builders Could Recycle Waste
Builders could do more to recycle the 120 million tonnes of waste they throw away each year in the UK, ac ...
Builders could do more to recycle the 120 million tonnes of waste they throw away each year in the UK, according to experts. The building and construction industry is the UK’s largest user of natural ...
15 June, 2018
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Builders Come Bottom of Construction Trade Recycling League Table
|Date: 31 March, 2015

Builders Come Bottom of Construction Trade Recycling League Table
Messy vans, messy skips – they've got a lot to learn from the squeaky clean plumbers When it comes to the ...
Messy vans, messy skips – they've got a lot to learn from the squeaky clean plumbers When it comes to the construction trade, everybody knows that a tidy site is a safe site, and that smart waste mana ...
31 March, 2015
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