Members will wish to be aware that the draft Single Use Carrier Bag Charge (Wales) Regulations 2010 will be laid today. Single use carrier bags represent an iconic symbol of our throwaway society and are an environmental problem. In Wales we took home an estimated 350 million carrier bags last year from the major supermarkets alone, equivalent to 273 bags per household in Wales. And this figure under-represents the full picture since it does not include the millions of bags given out on the high street, corner shops and all other retail outlets. Carrier bags make up an estimated 2.7% of litter by weight and costs approximately £1 million annually to remove in Wales. This is seemingly a very small amount by weight, but carrier bags are light, highly visible and dangerous to wildlife
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Keyline chosen as Approved Framework Supplier to Scottish Water
Civils supplier for Scottish Water
Good news for Scottish Water, its delivery partners and sub-contractors: we're now an approved 'framework supplier' for civils materials. By offering Scottish Water preferential material prices, we put contractors on a level playing field when tendering for business.
New XPress Gas Range in Satisfying Larger Sizes
Pegler Yorkshire’s mastery of the fittings market continues with the introduction of a range extension to the XPress copper gas range, with a comprehensive new choice of sizes from 15mm to the extra large 108mm.
Wales passes legislation on 70 per cent recycling target
Wales is set to become the first country in the UK to introduce statutory recycling targets for local authorities.
The National Assembly for Wales passed legislation today [2 November] which introduces legally–binding targets for the amount of municipal waste councils recycle or compost from 2012-2013, with a 2024-2025 target of 70 per cent.