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Green Apple Award winner, Waste King, becomes Green World Ambassador

At a ceremony held in the Houses of Parliament, at the Palace of Westminster, in London, at the end of November, Waste King was named a winner of this year’s Green Apple Environment Awards. The awards celebrate environmental best practice and are open to any organisation, community or individual.   Having competed successfully with over [...]

By | December 4th, 2023|Categories: Business, Environment, Waste Management/ Recyling|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Waste King helps Hightown keep its carbon footprint to a minimum

Hightown Housing Association (HHA) has increased its commitment to working with Waste King to improve the efficiency and cleanliness of its waste collection and disposal processes, while also being environmentally friendly and keeping the charitable housing association’s carbon footprint to a minimum.   HHA currently manages over 8,000 homes – supporting over 16,000 residents - [...]

Waste King Reports Rising Revenue and Jobs

Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, is experiencing huge growth in its business despite the current challenging market conditions.   According to its Managing Director, Glenn Currie, Waste King processed some 3,000 new orders in July (2023) alone, generating over £500,000 in revenue. July’s substantial and encouraging revenue figures are [...]

By | August 8th, 2023|Categories: Business, Environment, Waste Management/ Recyling|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

eCom Scotland joins Offshore Energies UK

Scotland’s leading provider of digitally delivered learning and assessment materials, eCom Scotland, has become a member of Offshore Energies UK, the leading representative body for the UK offshore oil and gas industry.   Susan Gearing, eCom’s energy sector specialist, explained, “As eCom’s activity within this key sector of the UK’s and the world’s economies has [...]

By | February 21st, 2022|Categories: Business, Environment, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Geoscientists’ competency assessment comes to Australia

Australia is the latest continent to get a taste of a new online self-assessment tool to benchmark the skills within the international operations geoscience community and identify individuals’ skills gaps. The tool enables operations geoscientists, in the oil and gas sector, to objectively assess the level of their current skills - which they need to [...]

eCom Scotland speaks out on climate issues ahead of COP26

Wendy Edie, Managing Director of the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, believes that producing an agile workforce committed to quality-assessed lifelong learning is the best way for businesses to thrive as climate change forces the adoption of net zero-aligned technologies and business practices.   Speaking ahead of COP26 - the conference on global [...]

Waste King removes 180 sacks of waste after roadside litter-pick

Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, has collaborated with its near neighbour and competitor company, Camiers Waste Management, to clear up litter from the verges and hedgerows of roads close to both companies’ headquarters, in Long Marston, near Tring, Hertfordshire.   With the lockdown – brought about by restrictions relating [...]

By | March 2nd, 2021|Categories: Business, Environment, Waste Management/ Recyling|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Captain Tom Moore becomes a Waste King customer

  Asked by the BBC to collect some unwanted items from the Bedfordshire home of Captain Sir Tom Moore, Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, were delighted to help.   The BBC had been doing some filming at Captain Tom’s home in Marston Moretaine and, originally, asked Waste King to [...]

By | September 15th, 2020|Categories: Business, Environment, Waste Management/ Recyling|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Third Major Green Apple Environment Award for Waste King

Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, was named a winner in this year’s Green Apple Awards, at a ceremony held in the Houses of Parliament, at the Palace of Westminster, in London on 25th November. Rewarding environmental best practice and open to any organisation, community or individual, this year’s Awards [...]

International professional squash tournament in Tring sponsored by Waste King

Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, has become one of the sponsors of the 2019/20 PSA World Tour, the international squash circuit organised by the Professional Squash Association (PSA). This month, the PSA World Tour tournament comes to Tring Squash Club, in Hertfordshire – close to Waste King’s headquarters. The [...]

By | October 3rd, 2019|Categories: Business, Environment, Sport and Leisure|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments