WATCHING VIRIDOR'S COLIN DRUMMOND IN UNDERCOVER BOSS ON CHANNEL 4 struggling with an overloaded trade waste bin started me thinking again about commercial and industrial (C&I) waste and recycling. Everybody is saying we have spent too much time on household waste and that commercial waste should be our priority. Whether that is true will depend on how far the market has been getting on with addressing the problem so far. Things are, of course, changing fast already, driven by the landfill tax and the Waste Framework Directive (WFD). Last month the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) published the results of the Local Authority Trade Waste and Recycling Survey 2010, which revealed that local authority trade waste recycling collections for small companies (SMEs) have almost doubled in the past three years.
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