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MP visits award-winning environment-friendly recycler

Mike Penning, the Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, has visited the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King. While there, he found out about Waste King’s many environmentally-friendly waste and recycling initiatives and congratulated the company and its staff on their award-winning environmentally [...]

By | April 2nd, 2012|Categories: Business, Environment|Tags: , , , , , , , , |4 Comments

Recycled computers help autistic Matthew

Waste King, the environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has found an unusual outlet for it to recycle old computers. It has given a number of old computers – discarded by its customers – to Matthew, a young man who has severe autism and a complete fascination with computers. Matthew will take these computers [...]

By | March 7th, 2012|Categories: Environment|Tags: , , , , , , |4 Comments

Colin, the Giant African Land Snail, continues his charm offensive

Colin, the Giant African Land Snail which the environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, saved last year from being consigned to the ‘great green bin in the sky’ by one of its customers, has become both a teaching aid and a great hit with Sophie Dowling’s class at St Cuthbert Mayne School, [...]

By | February 24th, 2012|Categories: Environment|Tags: , , , , , |6 Comments

Waste King’s weapon is environmental friendliness – and professionalism…

Customers choose to use Waste King - the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company – primarily because of its environmental friendliness in guaranteeing to recycle at least 85 per cent of all the waste that Waste King collects. In reality, the figure is now over 90 per cent. A recent survey of Waste [...]

By | February 16th, 2012|Categories: Environment|Tags: , , , , |1 Comment

Ten items to recycle rather than send to landfill

In a further bid to reduce the pressure on landfill sites, Waste King - the environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company - has published a list of ten items which are recyclable but are, commonly, sent to landfill. Waste King’s managing director, Glenn Currie, said:  “Waste King guarantees to recycle at least 85 per [...]

By | February 8th, 2012|Categories: Environment, Lifestyle|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Eight Steps to Being Greener

Waste King, the UK-based environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company which guarantees to recycle over 84 per cent of all the waste it collects, has published its top eight suggestions to help everyone enjoy a ‘greener’ lifestyle. Waste King asked its operatives – all of whom are Environment Agency-licensed - for their advice on [...]

By | February 1st, 2012|Categories: Environment, Lifestyle|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Waste King reports a 78 per cent rise in revenue

The specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has reported that – for the last two quarters in succession – its revenue has risen by 78 per cent compared with the same periods last year.   Waste King’s managing director, Glenn Currie, commented: “This consistent increase is a result of the systems [...]

By | November 4th, 2011|Categories: Business, Environment|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Skip the skip

Putting waste in a skip is an accepted strategy – especially if that waste is being generated regularly as a business by-product. However, as at least one organisation has been discovering, having a skip on your premises can attract fly tippers. Not only does that mean that you have to pay for disposing [...]

By | September 17th, 2011|Categories: Business, Environment, Lifestyle|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Waste King rescues Giant African Land Snail

  Here’s a bizarre but heart-warming story for the summer holiday ‘silly season’.   Glenn Currie, managing director of the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, explained: “One of our customers was moving to the USA and so had to get rid of her pet Giant African Land Snail. We were [...]

By | August 19th, 2011|Categories: Environment, Lifestyle, Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , |1 Comment

Practical corporate social responsibility

Bob Little Press & PR client Waste King (http://www.wasteking.co.uk) - the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company which, earlier this year, received a Green Apple Award as one of Britain’s ‘greenest companies’ - has teamed up with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the Salvation Army in order to help other people’s waste materials benefit [...]

By | July 18th, 2011|Categories: Business, Environment, Lifestyle|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments