INDUSTRY NEWS
GROWTH AT
GREENTREE CAPLUGS
Greentree Caplugs are pleased
to announce two new managerial
staff appointments as of a result
of continued sales growth and
expansion of their range of
masking & protection products
and engineered solutions.
Joel Rawlinson, who joined the company
2 years ago and has risen rapidly through
the ranks to achieve his recent promotion
to Customer Service Manager. Responsible
for the busy team of Greentree Caplugs
staff who process an increasing number
of UK & International orders, Joel has
been tasked with increasing efficiency and
maintaining the already high levels of
customer satisfaction during the
ongoing expansion.
Chris Slade has been appointed as
area sales manager for the south of
the United Kingdom. With a varied
background, including time at a
national industrial procurement &
supply company, Chris brings his
experience, knowledge & enthusiasm
to provide an outstanding service for
new & existing Greentree Caplugs
customers.
Elsewhere Greentree Caplugs is
continuing to grow, adding further
manufacturing & production processes in
house to further compliment the range of
over 9,000 Caplugs & Shercon standard
masking & protection products together
with custom engineered solutions.
With plans for new product launches,
exhibitions and continued expansion of
the Greentree Caplugs team 2014 will
ensure that the company maintains its
position as a leader in the marketplace.
For further information please
visit our website www.greentreeeng.co.uk or contact Greentree by
phone on 01684 533 800 or email
[email protected]
Hazardous Waste Packaging
The recently-issued
revision to the
Environment Agency
waste guidance note
WM2 - Interpretation of
the Definition and
Classification of
Hazardous Waste, 3rd
Edition, dated August
2013, contains a major
change of interpretation
for packaging waste.
The new interpretation excludes the weight of
the packaging when deciding if packaging
waste is hazardous. This change means that
there is now a presumption that packaging that
has previously held hazardous substances will
itself be hazardous and as a result, would have
to be consigned as hazardous waste. Packaging
waste such as containers and drums would now
have to be completely washed clean in order
to be classified as non-hazardous and not just
scraped
clean and
drained, as
at present.
Previously, to determine if
an emptied package was
hazardous, the amount of
any hazardous component
was calculated as a
proportion of the whole
packaging item.
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May 2014
We feel
that this will
effectively
prevent the
recycling
of a large
number
of emptied
containers
that have
contained a hazardous material unless they
are completely cleaned or otherwise have
the hazard completely removed. The costs
to industry, if emptied containers would now
have to be consigned as hazardous waste,
would be enormous.
As an industry, we have data to show that,
if the packages are thoroughly drained, the
hazardous component would not normally
exceed the permitted thresholds. The BCF
is fighting to have this change overturned.
Wayne Smith
Director of Regulatory Affairs,
British Coatings Federation
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