46 | DECEMBER 2017
Business
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RECYCLING WASTE
INTO REVENUE
Plate glass such as window glass is 100% recyclable,
otherwise such glass that is thrown away ends up in
landfills and can take over 4,000 years to decompose.
The value of recycling that
glass is being demonstrated by
J&B Recycling, the North East’s
largest independent recycling com-
pany. It operates a dedicated plate
glass collection service to glaziers
and window manufacturers. The
company can also collect laminat-
ed, wired, toughened/tempered,
tinted, mirrored and float glass.
J&B Recycling recently helped
Greencroft Bottling in Stanley,
County Durham, to generate an
income of over £33,000 this year
from recyclables.
Rob Mitchell, Operations Direc-
tor at Greencroft Bottling, said: “To
remove our waste it was previously
costing us over £28,000 a year. We are
now making that back plus more.”
Forum welcomes calls
for US trade talks
The Forum of Private Busi-
ness (FPB) has welcomed calls
for trade talks with the USA to
proceed alongside the EU trade
negotiations.
The proposal was made by
the Legatum Institute’s Shanker
Singham at the International Trade
Select Committee. He explained
that by holding trade talks with
the US alongside talks with the
EU it would provide an incentive
for the EU to give the UK a more
favourable deal upon Brexit.
Ian Cass, chief executive of the
FPB, said: “We welcome these
comments made by Mr Singham
and would urge the government
to go further. As part of our Get
Britain Trading campaign we are
calling on the government to sup-
port Britain’s businesses in trading
across the globe.”
The Forum’s Get Britain Trading
campaign has six key elements
and after receiving backing from
former chancellor George Os-
borne, Mr Cass hopes that senior
government officials will begin
to incorporate it into the govern-
ment’s longer-term plans.
Among the campaign’s six key
elements are re-launching the ‘Hall
of Shame’ to highlight bad be-
haviour of UK businesses - which
damage the trust and reputation
of UK plc - and a new Ethical
Workbook and a Compliance
Handbook.
STRONG VOICE FOR
MANUFACTURING
A new council from the
Emma Green, HR Administrator, and Rob Mitchell, Operations Director at Greencroft
Bottling (right) with Mark Penny from J&B Recycling (centre).
Confederation of British Industry
will support the country’s man-
ufacturers – helping them make
the most of a global economy that
is changing at ‘a dizzying pace.’
Manufacturing currently
makes up around 10% of the UK
economy and accounts for over
two-thirds of all UK spend on
research and development, so it is
vital that it helps shape the UK’s
future economic performance.
The new CEO-level Manufac-
turing Council will bring together
dozens of the UK’s top manu-
facturers – small, medium and
large – and will be chaired by
Tom Crotty, group director of
chemicals multinational Ineos.
At the heart of the group’s work
will be:
• Shaping the skills agenda to
build a UK workforce fit to
adapt to AI and digitisation
• Building a new visionary in-
dustrial strategy that supports
productivity
• Creating pathways to the
delivery of the UK’s target of
3% of GDP invested in R&D
by 2020
• Delivering a Brexit that works
for the UK’s manufacturing
base.
DATA SHARING FRAUD SOLUTION
National Business Crime
Solution (NBCS) has introduced
a fraud detection initiative to try
and beat persistent offenders who
commit fraud against multiple
online businesses.
Praesidio – the Latin word for
protection – is a data sharing solu-
tion that ultimately helps compa-
nies develop a more effective loss
prevention strategy.
‘Claims’ is a type of crime
increasingly prevalent, as unscru-
pulous individuals take advantage
of the loopholes inherent within
online purchasing. For example,
retailers are reporting instanc-
es of customers claiming not to
have received goods, while some
individuals are falsely stating that
packages have not been packed
correctly and ordered items are
missing or that they have returned
an item (when they haven’t) and
their initial payment has not been
credited.
The scale of the problem is
immense, and NBCS, using 75,000
lines of data from six major online
retailers, uncovered £3.4m worth
of potentially fraudulent claims.
One example is approximately
£13,000 worth of claims a month
that had cross matched based on
two out of six retailers.
The launch of Praesidio fol-
lowed significant government
funding for NBCS as part of the
Home Office’s Police Transfor-
mation Fund. The award of a
six-figure sum was in recognition
of NBCS’s success in supporting
the police in the battle against
business crime and will enable it
to drive membership up in order
to operate as an entirely self-suffi-
cient, self-governing entity, which
is totally funded and controlled by
members.
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