Workplace wellness makes commercial sense: PwC supports workplace health champion model

January 1, 2006 was the most important day for postal services for more than 350 years. On that date, the market worth £6 billion a year was fully liberalised and competition is now firmly in place with organisations other than Royal Mail now acting as postal operators collecting, sorting and distributing mail in the UK.

Graffiti is regarded by some as a creative, artistic undertaking requiring considerable skill. However, irrespective of what it looks like or the ability required, graffiti is criminal damage that costs land managers and businesses millions each year to remove.

The Anti-Graffiti Association came into being approximately seven years ago when a positive effort was made to bring together interested parties concerned with the spread of graffiti vandalism.

Almost a year on from the introduction of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, Dr Philip Morton, chief executive of producer compliance scheme REPIC, talks to Local Government Executive about the difficult initial ‘setting up’ period, the current situation and what the future holds for local authorities.

With metal prices at a premium, waste electricals have become the latest target for enterprising thieves.

Steven Ogden, project manager for plastics at Recycling Action Yorkshire (RAY), gives his views on the future of plastic recycling

Over two billion litres of bottled water are sold in the UK every year - enough to fill the new Wembley Stadium twice over. What’s more, consumption of bottled water is doubling every five years in Britain, and only one in five plastic bottles is recycled.

Local Government Executive looks over the latest DEFRA guidelines on the need to deal with waste plastics effectively.

Public sector waste and recycling staff face a tough and complex job making sense of food waste collections, climate change policies, MBT trials and PFI tenders.