The waste and recycling industry is always changing. You can boost your knowledge about cardboard balers, waste balers, waste compaction or recycling trends by reading our detailed articles below. Here you will find news from the waste industry and the latest updates from the QCR team, including key industry trends and our awards.
22nd December 2014
Whilst the fall in oil prices has bought some joy at the pumps for Britain’s motorists, producers of scrap plastic may not enjoy the corresponding decline in values for waste plastic
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26th September 2014
A team training day has coincided with the MacmIlllan Coffee Morning so everyone has been busy baking cakes for this most worthy of causes. Some of them look remarkably like shop bought cakes and we are still wondering who them member of staff called Mr Kipling is
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15th September 2014
We began a project 4 weeks ago to collect as 26,000 aluminium cans. The reason for this is to make a large can bale to sell it to a recycler and then donate the money raised to CLIC Sargent
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1st September 2014
We were pleased to be asked to help out with sponsorship at Chadlington FC this season
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15th July 2014
This comes as no surprise to us, but The Times is today reporting that councils are wasting £200,000,000.00 a year of our money on different colour bins. They probably neglect to mention this when they send every household a glossy brochure crowing about how clever they have been in managing to collect your waste.
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10th April 2014
Continuing our rugby theme, these lucky boys won the right to lead the teams out in front of the Sky cameras for the Amlin Cup clash between Wasps and the mighty Gloucester
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10th April 2014
We’re proud of our continued association with Chipping Norton Rugby Club. It’s a small, friendly club where the core rugby values of enjoyment and fair play are paramount.
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26th March 2014
Once upon time….There was a handsome service engineer who was called upon to carry out a routine service on one of our machines at a Spar shop in Shiphay.
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13th March 2014
The pace of life is fast here at QCR and is about to get faster as we celebrate the acquisition of Environmental Solutions Machinery Ltd, formerly Mil-tek Environmental Solutions.
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20th February 2014
We moved into our new building last autumn and we love the space, the views and the additional car parking. We aren’t so keen on the hideous pink colour scheme used throughout the offices nor the eye watering electricity bills
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6th February 2014
QCR’s first show of the year got underway yesterday at the Taste of the West Show at the Westpoint Exhibition Centre, Exeter
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7th January 2014
We've been banging on about the need to treat waste as an energy resource for some years now; a lot of our most exciting new projects involve turning clinical waste and food waste into hot water.
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