We all buy stuff from eBay and Amazon from time to time. We choose the product we like, add it to the basket, pay and have it delivered to our doors in few days. Sometimes we even sell some goods as well. We put the product up for sale, sell it and ship it. In both of above scenarios we are very cautious about getting the goods delivered in one piece, either we are a buyer or seller. This is when we consider packaging.

I like the EA. They have a difficult job and it’s made even harder when society and new governments place ever increasing demands on it to advance when the laws they are duty bound to enforce are not flexible enough to allow them to do it in a way that best fits.

The green house has been a awarded a partnership agreement in which to help Carphone Warehouse with their CSR aspiration to become ZERO WASTE to landfill at all of their non-retail sites in the UK.

We took a road trip today to visit our friends at Tidy Planet in Macclesfield. For those that don’t know of Tidy Planet they produce the popular Rocket Composter used by many companies up and down the country to turn their organic waste into quality compost.

A couple of weeks ago I attended the annual MRW Retailers Waste and Recycling Conference in London. the green house were actually due to host the first day workshops at the event but the credit crunch had firmly done its ob and delegate numbers were disapointingly low and it was pulled.I went along anyway because a few of our clients were attending but also because one of our key accounts, Lush, the natural health and beauty retailer, were one of the keynote speakers. The talk was given by Ruth Andrade the Environmental Officer for Lush UK and a very passionate and active environmentalist.

I am really pleased to announce that the green house has been awarded the national waste and recycling contract for The Body Shop in the UK. The contract covers over 100 of the retail stores as well as distribution centres based in Littlehampton.

I just finished an interview with an international newspaper who are following up on the press that The Times did in the UK about the rise of recycling revenues.

One of the questions we get asked a lot in interviews and by clients is

I just finished an interview with a magazine who are writing a piece on whether or not landfill mining is set to become a reality in the UK, the same way it has in America over the last couple of years.

I have been giving a lot of thought recently to how our business model at IWMS can be applied to the domestic market, that is, the waste you produce at home. We have seen a lot of action recently by councils in an attempt to secure the compliance of the residents in their catchment area as well as push up the levels of recycling. The latter, of course, in a bid to hit their landfill targets and avoid hefty penalty fines.