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Commercial customers increasingly opt for waste pods over skips

  More than 40 commercial customers of Waste King - the specialist collection, clearance and recycling company based in Hemel Hempstead, UK – are have now switched from using skips to waste pods to segregate and remove their waste. Waste King’s managing director, Glenn Currie, explained: “When it comes to waste storage and then recycling [...]

By | April 30th, 2013|Categories: Business, Environment|Tags: , , , , , , |1 Comment

Insoluble opportunities

  We’re all encouraged to see problems and challenges as opportunities. The only thing is, though, that sometimes there are insoluble opportunities.   After more than 20 years, the HRD conference and exhibition – held, this year, at Olympia in London at the end of April – appears to be presenting its organisers, CIPD Enterprises, [...]

Time for a quick advert: Phelia boost to Music for Christian Aid

  Marshalswick Baptist Free Church, in Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, is – once again – the venue for St Albans Music Club’s annual concert to raise funds for the charity, Christian Aid. The concert takes place at the church from 7.30pm on Saturday 11th May.   St Albans’ recent singing sensation, Phelia – also known [...]

By | April 23rd, 2013|Categories: Lifestyle, Miscellaneous, Sport and Leisure|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Waste King doubles turnover in a year

  Since moving to its current premises a couple of years ago, Waste King, the specialist collection, clearance and recycling company based in Hemel Hempstead, has now achieved the milestone of processing 10,000 orders. Of even more significance is that this growing number of orders has contributed to doubling the company’s turnover within a year. [...]

By | April 22nd, 2013|Categories: Business, Environment|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Technology alters bedroom activities

  According to a survey of 1,000 commuters in London, carried out by Infosecurity Europe, 29% of people look at emails - on computers or smartphones - and catch up on work while they’re in bed, especially if they can’t sleep. Apparently, 15% of them do this at the same time as their partner is [...]

By | April 20th, 2013|Categories: Business Technology, Lifestyle|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Fluorescent tube coffins prove a hit with Waste King customers

  According to Waste King, a specialist collection, clearance and recycling company based in Hemel Hempstead, its fluorescent tube ‘coffins’ are proving attractive to customers who want to dispose of their spent tubes in the most environmentally friendly way.   Waste King’s operations director, Andy Cattigan, explained: “We offer customers a nine-step process to help [...]

By | April 18th, 2013|Categories: Business, Environment|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Paradigm change brings benefits via Facilitation skills

  According to Teresa Fenn, a Technical Director with Risk & Policy Analysts Limited (RPA) - a Norfolk-based consultancy providing advice to clients spanning the chemicals, energy, water, waste and more general environmental sectors around the world - applying the Facilitation methodology outlined in APMG-International’s Facilitation skills certification scheme amounts to a paradigm shift in [...]

By | April 17th, 2013|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Silver Fox CEO remembers Margaret Thatcher

  The funeral of Baroness Thatcher, the UK’s first female prime minister, which takes place on Wednesday, 17 April, at St Paul's Cathedral, London, will be of special significance for those who have personal memories of her.   Among those is Nick Michaelson, CEO of Silver Fox, the UK manufacturer of high performance labelling solutions. [...]

By | April 16th, 2013|Categories: Business, Cable labels, Manufacturing, Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Process not task orientation is key to effective Facilitation

  Risk & Policy Analysts Limited (RPA), a Norfolk-based consultancy providing advice to clients spanning the chemicals, energy, water, waste and more general environmental sectors around the world, is reaping the business benefits of adopting a more rigorous approach to Facilitation skills.   Providing strategic analysis skills to help decision makers with the [...]

By | April 15th, 2013|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Evolving interactivity

  It’s now some six months since Harbinger Knowledge Products – makers of Raptivity, the award-winning, rapid e-learning development software tool that comes with a library of pre-built customisable interactions, most of which are interactive - launched ‘Raptivity Evolve’ for its Raptivity premium customers. In that time, it’s produced five new interaction modules collaborating with [...]