visit recycle-more at futuresource 

recycle-more.co.uk will be exhibiting at Futuresource, ExCel arena in London, from 9-11 June. Why not pop along and meet the team at stand G40? For more information visit www.recycle-more.co.uk

The recycle-more team have been busy bees putting together stacks of useful recycling information for the months ahead:

• World Environment Day: 5th June. The theme this year is 'Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change'. Read more here »
• Recycle Now Week: 22nd- 28th June. Use our great stats & facts to spread the recycling message!
• new battery recycling pages! Access our downloadable battery recycling chart, details about the regulations, fab facts and lots more!
• thanks to everyone that has been following recycle-more on Twitter, we love tweeting to you all!

Back in 2007 WRAP set up a number of partnerships with a range of Local Authorities to run battery collection and recycling services. However battery recycling requires the payment of a large gate fee and funding shortfalls meant that the trials were due to stop in mid 2008.

Conscious of the need to maintain the momentum and promote public awareness in the need to recycle portable batteries Valpak took on full responsibility for all of the WRAP trials.

With producer responsibility for battery recovery due to take effect in 2010 we'd now like to expand these collections for other interested Local Authorities. If you want to collect waste portable batteries at kerbside or bring sites then Valpak are willing to offer:

• free collection from bulked points
• free containers for CA sites and potentially for other sites
• free recycling

If you would like to discuss the potential for free of charge recycling with Valpak please email Nigel Tomlinson at info@valpak.co.uk or alternatively ring him on 07972 920 589.

The Valpak Awards are highly popular with Local Authorities across the UK. Popular categories, which are open to Local Authorities, include:

• Best School Environmental Awareness Campaign
• Most Innovative Local Authority
• Best Community Recycling Initiative

Logon now to www.valpak.co.uk for full details of how to enter, and to find out who won an award last year.

Send us your entry before 24 July 2009 and you could be attending a prestigious dinner and awards ceremony at Shakespeare's Globe, London on 24 September 2009.

Valpak Consulting have recently introduced three new service offerings aimed at supporting Local Authorities in reducing and recycling waste. The new services are:

1. Materials Recycling Support. Read more here »

2. Waste & Recycling Technologies Support.
Read more here »

3. Zero Waste Audits. Read more here »

Valpak's Chairman the Rt Hon John Gummer MP has kindly agreed to speak to Valpak members and Local Authorities at a private seminar at Futuresource, ExCeL, London on Wednesday 10 June 2009. Starting at 1.00 pm in the Information Hub, it will comprise a short address followed by networking, questions and answers. Complimentary refreshments will be available.

There are just 60 places available so book your place now. You can reserve seats for yourself and a colleague here »

Don't forget to visit the Valpak team at stand G40 during your visit, we'd love to see you! You can also catch us at free Information Hub seminars too. For more information click here, or visit the Futuresource website.