Mayor visits Newport WEEE Plant
The Mayor of Newport, Councillor Glyn Jarvis, visited Sims Recycling Solutions’ waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling plant in Newport, South Wales, to find out how WEEE is recycled.
2/Mar/2010
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Latest UK news from Sims Recycling Solutions
Sims named one of world's top 100 most sustainable corporations
Sims Recycling Solutions’ parent company, Sims Metal Management, has been listed as one of the Global Top 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World for the second year running. The list, compiled by sustainable business publication Corporate Knights, was announced at the 2010 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
1/Mar/2010
Newport Schools Eco Days generate 10.5 tonnes of WEEE
Pupils from schools in Newport, Gwent, have been recycling their old mobile phones, kettles, toasters, DVD players and games consoles after Sims Recycling Solutions teamed up with the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and Newport City Council to hold Eco Days in four Newport secondary schools.
16/Feb/2010
Best recycler of the decade
Sims Recycling Solutions’ parent company, Sims Metal Management, has been named Best Recycler of the Decade by the UK’s leading recycling magazine, Materials Recycling Week (MRW). The announcement was made in MRW’s ‘review of the noughties’ which identified the UK’s top performing companies in the materials recycling and waste management sector between 2000 and 2009.
12/Feb/2010
Dumfries recycling facility reduces energy consumption
Sims Recycling Solutions’ waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling facility at Lochside Industrial Estate in Dumfries has cut its energy consumption by 52%, reducing the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere by a massive 153 tonnes per annum.
28/Jan/2010
Dom Littlewood records the One Show at Sims' Newport recycling centre
Consumer champion, Dom Littlewood visited Sims Recycling Solutions’ Newport electronics recycling facility last month to record a feature on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling for BBC television’s the One Show. The recording session was organised after the programme’s producers approached Sims Recycling Solutions to find out how consumers should recycle their unwanted electrical and electronic items.
14/Jan/2010
A £12m flagship recycling centre opens in Wales
On Monday 9th February, First Minister for Wales, the Rt Hon Rhodri Morgan officially opened Sims Recycling Solutions' new £12m flagship recycling facility in Newport, capable of recycling 100,000 tonnes of e-waste each year.
9/Feb/2009