Never one to be known to shirk a challenge ever since Robert completed his maiden Skydive last year I have been itching to do one myself. The ideal opportunity presented itself at the weekend when twelve of us went to the North London Parachute Centre to jump out of a plane from 12,000 feet. To help celebrate our newly formed partnership with Pall-Ex we joined our two teams together and set out to raise money for charity The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, ... Read More

I've spent the last few months learning how to use After Effects by Adobe. It's a remarkable product and is responsible for a lot of the content that goes into our presentations that people so often comment about. We are about to start incorporating After Effects creations into our websites and I've just finished one for WasteCollection.com - our eCommerce store for Small Business Services. Thought you might want to have a look: Read More

Every now and again we like to let the team out of the fortress green house for some fresh air and interaction. Of course, we wouldn't dream of doing this without introducing some fun element related to the environment so we arranged for them all to visit the Materials Recycling Facility of one of our suppliers, F & R Cawley's in Bedfordshire Everyone say's they enjoyed it and Adrian even managed to create a new fashion trend that he is going to call ... Read More

One of the the most exciting aspects of what we do at the green house is work with an amazing bunch of companies who supply the actual waste collection services for our clients. These are super hard working people often in work and finished before most of us are rising for our cornflakes of a morning. the green house network is made up of around 100 suppliers who cover a vast range of services from wheeled bin collections to confidential shredding and light ... Read More

Anyone who knows me knows I am a very passionate Burnley supporter. Many of you will not have a clue who Burnley is but we are 90 minutes away from becoming very well known as we fight to be promoted to the English Premiership for the first time in 33 years. There are a number of reasons why this is so particularly special: Burnley has the smallest squad in the UK league - 22 full-time players. Our squad is so small that our 48 ... Read More

As anyone reading this blog will know we like to do things a little different at the green house. As a business we alway's strive to push the boundaries of what our 'industry norms' are (if anyone does know can they tell us please?). The waste industry is not particularly known for its creatvity or innovation and that is what makes the green house stand out. We are in the process of making a couple of very significant changes to our brand at ... Read More

The government has been very cagey about their intentions for landfill tax past 2011 - the originally agreed timespan set by Gordon Brown as Chancellor. Conspiracy theorists point towards lack of understanding and foul-ups relating to PFI and new technologoies - in particular Britains inability to choose a route forward to replace landfill. More likely is that the wider economic issues have taken up the resource at Whitehall and it has simply slipped down the agenda. Either way today's budget announcements have at ... Read More

At the green house we are committed to pushing the boundaries of what our industry offers the market. For many years the 'model' of waste management has been broken in this writers opinion and the gap has become wider and wider especially in the last 5 years. There is a fundamental reason for this: Where a businesses revenues comes from charging per collection or per lift their incentive will never be aligned with the customers aspirations to reduce their waste costs and recycle ... Read More

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 ... Read More

At the green house it is usually any excuse for a bit of silliness but if there is a good cause involved then all the better. This years Comic Relief has had lot's of press for beating the old credit crunch and surpassing 2008's total amount raised. It currently stands at a whopping £60,000,000 which is just brilliant and the green house we are pleased to have made our own little contribution by holding a Friday day of fun. This included amongst ... Read More