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Andy Cattigan, of the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has returned to BBC Three Counties Radio (BBC 3CR) – this time to explain the new regulations relating to the sale and recycling of batteries.

Speaking on Justin Dealey’s Saturday morning show on BBC 3CR on 30^th January, Andy outlined the new regulations, which came into force from 1^st February this year. Andy’s performance can be heard on the Waste King website at www.wasteking.co.uk

The new regulations came into force in the light of figures, such as those on the ‘recycle more’ website (www.reclcyle-more.co.uk), that only three per cent of batteries are currently recycled – leaving 22,000 tonnes of household batteries to go into landfill sites where they can leak harmful chemicals into the soil. Further details of the new regulations can be found at http://www.batteryback.org/

In particular, the new regulations state that any organisations supplying a total of more than 32 kilos of batteries per year must have a scheme to take back old, used batteries for free. This includes having collecting bins for old batteries on-site and it involves a commitment on the part of the supplier to recycle these returned batteries.

Earlier in the month, Andy and his colleague from Waste King, Glenn Currie, brought their recycling and environmentally friendly waste management skills to BBC 3CR when they were guests in ‘The Expert Hour’, part of Lorna Milton’s afternoon show. Among other things, Andy and Glenn explained how to dispose of the ephemera of the Christmas and New Year celebrations in the most environmentally friendly way.

“Radio – especially local radio – has a key role to play in helping people to become more aware of waste issues, including the need for more recycling,” said Andy Cattigan.

“At Waste King, we’re happy to provide advice and guidance to as many people as possible on all aspects of recycling and environmentally friendly waste disposal. So we’re delighted to be able to help the BBC in this way.”

Waste King has publicly pledged its commitment to recycle a substantial and significant percentage of all the waste it collects from its customers – thus avoiding using the landfill option wherever possible. Moreover, it has promised that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Waste King provides a wide range of waste collection and recycling services for both domestic and commercial clients including house clearances, office clearance, shop refurbishments, general rubbish removal, garden & garage clearance, wait & load and skip hire.

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About BBC Three Counties Radio

BBC Three Counties Radio is broadcast on 90.4, 92.1, 94.7, 95.5,98, 103.8 and 104.5 FM and 630 & 1161 AM, as well as online.

About Waste King Ltd

A specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King serves the domestic and commercial markets. It focuses not only on providing a friendly, efficient, cost-effective service but also one which is environmentally friendly. In particular, Waste King’s uniformed, Environment Agency-licensed staff take time to ensure that the maximum amount of waste can be recycled and that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Waste King was formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’.

Further information from:

Glenn Currie,

Waste King Ltd, 01442 216784 / 07761 577001; glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

Bob Little,

Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com

Having helped in the making of the feature film – Re-Uniting the Rubins, a comedy drama starring Timothy Spall – by clearing up the various shooting locations after each day’s filming, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has now done the same thing for the Soho-based film company, 2A Films.

2A Films used Waste King to clear waste from the sets of television commercials that it was making for two household names – one from the fast food sector and the other a leading supermarket chain.

Waste King’s Glenn Currie explained: “Making films – whether they’re feature films or TV adverts – generates waste and this has to be cleared safely, efficiently and, these days, in as environmentally friendly a way as possible. In particular, in the interests of helping the environment, it is important to recycle as much as of this waste as possible.”

Andy Cattigan, with Glenn Currie one of Waste King’s co-founders, added: “We’re delighted to be making something of a name for ourselves as specialists in the business of clearing sites for film companies.

“However, we’re equally at home in working in the domestic market,” he added. “In the last few weeks, for example, we’ve collected – and recycled – over £10,000 of tiles from domestic premises in Buckinghamshire alone.

“At the time, it made a nice change after having removed lots of old Christmas trees from various locations, including churches,” he said.

One local church – Marshalswick Baptist Free Church, in St Albans – entrusted its three large Christmas trees to Waste King in the post-Christmas clear-out. Its spokesperson, the Rev Graham Clarke, commented:

“Not only were we highly impressed that Waste King’s team braved the icy roads and snowy conditions to collect our trees on time but we were also delighted that they make the recycling of all waste a priority wherever possible. We’d be very likely to use Waste King again.”

It seems that, on this point at least, both the church and the film industry agree.

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About Waste King Ltd

A specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King serves the domestic and commercial markets. It focuses not only on providing a friendly, efficient, cost-effective service but also one which is environmentally friendly. In particular, Waste King’s uniformed, Environment Agency-licensed staff take time to ensure that the maximum amount of waste can be recycled and that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Waste King was formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’.

Further information from:

Glenn Currie,

Waste King Ltd, 01442 216784 / 07761 577001; glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

Bob Little,

Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has highlighted the importance – and value – of having a Site Waste Management Plan (SWMP).

In its latest news information for customers, Waste King explains that SWMPs are a legal requirement in England for all construction projects begun after 6th April 2008 which are worth over £300,000. However, says Waste King, whatever the size of your project, it is worth having an SWMP.

An SWMP sets out how resources will be managed and waste controlled at all stages during a construction project. It covers:

• Who will be responsible for resource management.

• What types of waste will be generated.

• How the waste will be managed – will it be reduced, reused or recycled?

• Which contractors will be used to ensure the waste is correctly recycled or disposed of responsibly and legally.

• How the quantity of waste generated by the project will be measured.

Waste King’s Andy Cattigan commented: “The benefits for organisations of using an SWMP are that it:

• Saves time – You can answer queries about your waste from your environmental regulator or local council quickly and easily.

• Helps you avoid prosecution – You can ensure all your waste is disposed of legally.

• Wins new business – You can prove your environmental performance, which can give you an advantage in the tendering process.

• Helps you understand and reduce waste disposal costs – You understand how your waste is managed so you can identify where to save money and reduce costs.

• Enhances your reputation – Your customers can see where you are helping the environment and making cost savings.

• Helps the environment – You will manage materials and waste on-site more responsibly so they are less of a risk to the local environment.

• Improves future projects – When your SWMP is complete you will have useful information for future projects about how you used resources and managed your waste.”

As part of Waste King’s commitment to keep its customers up-to-date on the latest developments in environmentally friendly waste management, including recycling, it is providing regular information updates – via email, to keep its carbon footprint as small as possible.

Any non-customers of Waste King who would like to receive these regular, free updates should email enquiries@wasteking.co.uk or complete the form at http://www.wasteking.co.uk/contact-waste-king.html

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About Waste King Ltd

A specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King serves the domestic and commercial markets. It focuses not only on providing a friendly, efficient, cost-effective service but also one which is environmentally friendly. In particular, Waste King’s uniformed, Environment Agency-licensed staff take time to ensure that the maximum amount of waste can be recycled and that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Waste King was formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’.

Further information from:

Glenn Currie,
Waste King Ltd, 01442 216784 / 07761 577001; glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

Bob Little,
Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, is urging everyone – from individuals to the largest corporations – to recycle as much of their waste as possible.

In an attempt to raise awareness of the scale on which we produce waste, Waste King has revealed 12 amazing waste-related facts:

1. 1. We use over 6bn glass bottles and jars each year. It would take you over 3,500 years to sing ‘Six Billion Green Bottles’.
2. 2. Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees.
3. 3. In just over a week, we produce enough rubbish to fill Wembley Stadium. Over half that waste could be recycled.
4. 4. Every year in the UK, we use 13bn steel cans which, if you placed them end to end, would stretch to the moon – three times!
5. 5. The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle is enough to power a light bulb for four hours.
6. 6. Each day, we produce enough rubbish to fill Trafalgar Square to the height of Nelson’s Column.
7. 7. Each year, a typical person gets through the contents of 90 drink cans, 70 food cans, 107 bottles and jars and 45kg of plastic.
8. 8. On average, each person in England and Wales produces nearly 500kg of household waste in a year.
9. 9. The UK produces more than 434m tonnes of waste every year – enough to fill 3.5m double-decker buses.

10. Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.

11. A modern glass bottle will take 4,000 years or more to decompose – and even longer if it’s part of a landfill site.

12. Each year, every person in the UK produces waste equivalent to the weight of five cars – and we only recycle 11% of it all.

Andy Cattigan, of Waste King, explained: “Recycling may be becoming ‘fashionable’ – but it’s none the worse for that. We produce far too much waste each year and recycle far too little of it.”

Waste King pledges to recycle as much as possible of every load of waste its staff clear from customers’ premises – and Waste King has taken its own advice by completely furnishing its offices with recycled products.

“It’s never too late to start recycling your rubbish – especially if it’s the sort of rubbish that the Council don’t take away,” Andy added. “Moreover, opting to recycle your waste through Waste King can usually work out cheaper than hiring a skip.”

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About Waste King Ltd

A specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King serves the domestic and commercial markets. It focuses not only on providing a friendly, efficient, cost-effective service but also one which is environmentally friendly. In particular, Waste King’s uniformed, Environment Agency-licensed staff take time to ensure that the maximum amount of waste can be recycled and that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Waste King was formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’.

Further information from:

Glenn Currie,
Waste King Ltd, 01442 216784 / 07761 577001; glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

Bob Little,
Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has publicly pledged its commitment to recycle a substantial and significant percentage of all the waste it collects from its customers – thus avoiding using the landfill option wherever possible. Moreover, it has promised that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

In addition to these pledges, which are included on Waste King’s updated website (www.wasteking.co.uk), are the following promises:

• We continuously improve our environmental performance by achieving agreed objectives with our staff – and measure their performance.
• We reuse and recycle wherever possible.
• We comply with all relevant legislation, including environmental and health and safety regulations.
• Every year, hundreds of tons of waste and unwanted items will avoid landfill because of us.
• We are networked with other well established organisations across the UK that re-use and recycle.
• We will use commercial transfer stations with particularly high standards of safety and recycling levels.
• We offer discounted rates for recyclables.

Waste King, which provides a wide range of waste collection and recycling services for both domestic and commercial clients including house clearances, office clearance, shop refurbishments, general rubbish removal, garden & garage clearance, wait & load and skip hire, focuses not only on providing an environmentally friendly service but also one which is friendly, efficient and cost-effective.

Formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’, Waste King aims to create a professional and environmentally responsible solution for homes and businesses by creating the environmentally friendly, ‘skip alternative’ solution to waste recycling.

“Using a skip could be a false economy,” pointed out Glenn Currie. In his view, there are eight factors to take into consideration when deciding whether to hire a skip or seek an alternative – such as Waste King:

1. Skip hire is expensive. Using Waste King can save customers up to 50% on their waste removals budget.
2. Skip hire can be a hassle – particularly finding a skip company which delivers and removes your skip at the time you want.
3. Using a skip means getting a skip hire permit or a parking permit from the local council. Doing this costs time and money – and, of course, the permit only lasts for a week; so, if you need a permit for longer, you will have to go through the process of renewing it.
4. With Waste King, there is no need for skip permits or a parking permit. This saves customers time and money – with no hidden costs – and the whole loading and removal process is faster.
5. Skip hire is hard work: loading heavy items can cause injury and takes time.
6. Waste King does all that hard work. All its costs include labour, congestion charges and permits. Its staff even sweeps up afterwards!
7. You pay for the whole skip – even if it is half empty – but Waste King normally charges only according to the volume of waste it removes.
8. You are only allowed up to an eight cubic yard skip on the road in residential areas yet Waste King’s recycling trucks are sized at 16 cubic yards – that’s double the room!

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About Waste King Ltd

A specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King serves the domestic and commercial markets. It focuses not only on providing a friendly, efficient, cost-effective service but also one which is environmentally friendly. In particular, Waste King’s uniformed, Environment Agency-licensed staff take time to ensure that the maximum amount of waste can be recycled and that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Waste King was formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’.

Further information from:

Glenn Currie,

Waste King Ltd, 01442 216784 / 07761 577001; glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

Bob Little,

Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com

RECUPYL AND BATTERY SOLUTIONS TEAM UP TO LEAD BATTERY RECYCLING IN THE UNITED STATES

Chicago, January 6, 2010 (word count: 467)
RECUPYL, the leading group in battery recycling technology, breaks into North America with the establishment of RECUPYL BATTERY SOLUTIONS , a joint venture with the Michigan-based leading actor in battery recycling, BATTERY SOLUTIONS Inc. This new company is dedicated to developing American local recycling for batteries.

Two mechanical lines for both alkaline and lithium-ion batteries of a total capacity with a 5 million lbs/year will operate from Brighton, Mich. The center is schedule to open in Q2 2010. While RECUPYL was initially specialized in portable batteries such as for phones or laptops, RECUPYL BATTERY SOLUTIONS will also focus on recycling batteries for electric vehicles including processing scraps. This development is made possible by the company’s new technologies in recycling advanced electrode materials such as those found in hybrid and electric vehicle batteries which will lead in a significant increase in demand.

RECUPYL turns waste to “new mine” resources and thus transform scrap to into valuable materials for re-use, closing the loop and creating a “new urban mine.” It specializes in implementing industrial processes with low energy consumption, minimum airborne environmental emissions and with very low direct or indirect CO2 emissions. Due to flexibility, low capital investment and high returns, RECUPYL technology offers the possibility to locate recycling facilities close to the waste streams – in this case centered in Michigan.

For this reason, RECUPYL is currently focused on deploying multiple facilities around the world instead of sending all the used batteries to a single centralized facility. Several plants have already been created in Poland, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom, France and in other countries where the global RECUPYL network is dominant.

Founded in 1991, BATTERY SOLUTIONS INC. corporate mission is to strive to protect human health and the environment by offering customized battery recycling solutions. These battery waste management programs help companies and environmentally conscious consumers meet their environmental, health, safety and recycling objectives. BATTERY SOLUTIONS commitment to customer service and recycling innovation has helped them become a leader for battery recycling in the United States. BATTERY SOLUTIONS has made a commitment to aggressively decrease CO2 emission with the implementation of the USA’s first, state of the art, low temperature battery recycling technology.

BATTERY SOLUTIONS accepts all battery types, under any circumstances, from anywhere in the United States. Their comprehensive recycling services are specifically designed to make battery recycling as simple and hassle-free as possible, while helping its customers protect the environment.

BATTERY SOLUTIONS maintains all applicable state and federal certifications, a professional-level of environmental expertise, and the recycling know-how needed to remain in complete compliance with all applicable environmental laws.

Throughout their many years in the battery recycling business they have implemented and refined fully-managed battery recycling systems for thousands of corporations, organizations, municipalities, and government agencies throughout the United States.

For more information, please contact:

RECUPYL USA
Carolin Pin
Tel.: (404) 495-5973
Web: www.recupyl.com

BATTERY SOLUTIONS
Justin Jungman
Tel.: (248) 446-5634
Web: www.batteryrecycling.com

or:

FRENCH TECHNOLOGY PRESS OFFICE
205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3740
Chicago, IL 60601
Tel.: (312) 327-5260
E-mail: contact.ftpo@ubifrance.fr

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, is helping its commercial customers to save hundreds of pounds by getting them not just to say ‘no’ to using skips for all their waste materials but also by encouraging them to separate their waste materials before collection by Waste King’s uniformed and licensed operatives.

Waste King’s Andy Cattigan explained: “We have introduced a ‘fast load’ service for all our customers.

“Basically, we allow two hours to completely fill one of our trucks with waste materials – that’s equivalent to 16 yards of waste. If our staff can load the materials in less than half the allocated labour allowance – for example, loading half a truck (eight yards) in only 30 minutes or less instead of the one hour ‘allowed’, our Fast Load rate applies and so we charge the customer a reduced rate.

“In other words, if the customer has pre-sorted the waste materials into various types of waste before our truck and staff turn up, then it makes it easier for our staff to do their job – and they can do it quicker too. In that case, it’s only fair that our customers should reap the benefit of their helpful work, via a reduced charge for the job.”

A number of Waste King’s customers have already benefited from this arrangement – among them Barclays Bank, the health and fitness club chain LA Fitness, and the East London based interior design company, City Interiors.

“City Interiors’ staff have been exceptionally helpful in planning and organising the various waste loads for us before we arrive,” Cattigan said.

For further details of Waste King’s ‘Fast Load Service’, contact Glenn Currie on 07761 577001 or email glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

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About Waste King Ltd

A specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King serves the domestic and commercial markets. It focuses not only on providing a friendly, efficient, cost-effective service but also one which is environmentally friendly. In particular, Waste King’s uniformed, Environment Agency-licensed staff take time to ensure that the maximum amount of waste can be recycled and that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Waste King was formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’.

Further information from:

Glenn Currie,

Waste King Ltd, 01442 216784 / 07761 577001; glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

Bob Little,

Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com

The waste collections and recycling specialist, Waste King, has become a preferred supplier in the UK to eight of the David Lloyd Leisure Group (DLL) sites. DLL operates 78 clubs in the UK as well as a further ten sites across Europe.

 Jo Farren, operations manager of David Lloyd Sudbury Hill, commented: “Waste King provides a swift, efficient and thorough service. The Waste King team are polite and helpful, with the work carried out within days of order.

“The whole service of collection – with manpower included – costs our business less than a standard skip. So it’s a win-win situation for us.”

Waste King’s Glenn Currie explained: “Waste King’s uniformed and licensed staff are working with DLL Group operations managers, such as Jo, to remove waste materials from DLL’s clubs.

“This means that there are no skips on DLL Group’s premises. Moreover, DLL staff don’t have to lift or move heavy waste items.

“Our staff do all of that for them – and we are able to separate the waste into loads that can be recycled in an environmentally friendly way,” he said. “If the waste had just been put into skips, the contents would have had to go to landfill projects whereas, now that Waste King staff can separate it into discrete types of waste, each of these types of waste can be re-cycled, thus placing less stress on our environment.”

This news comes hard on the heels of Waste King’s work to help the well known health and fitness club, LA Fitness, refurbish some of its gyms in the London area while keeping the disposal of the waste materials created in the process as environmentally friendly and as cost effective as possible. LA Fitness’ multi-million pound project involved Waste King in not only collecting and recycling materials from the LA Fitness gyms but also working with site managers at the gyms to develop Site Waste Management Plans (SWMP).

According to Waste King’s Glenn Currie: “SWMPs are intended to help contractors manage site waste more effectively, reducing potential harm to the environment and human health.

“They help to manage and reduce the amount of waste produced by construction projects, which means less waste goes to landfill. Other environmental benefits of SWMPs include less damage to the local environment, less fly-tipping, lower energy use and greater use of recycled materials.”

This means that LA Fitness can account for how every piece of waste from this project has been dealt with.

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About the David Lloyd Leisure Group

The David Lloyd Leisure Group, which is now Europe’s largest racquets, health and fitness operator, was formed on the 1st January 2008 following the acquisition of David Lloyd Leisure Ltd by London & Regional Properties, owners of Next Generation Clubs. The Group now incorporates 75 David Lloyd Leisure Clubs, one Next Generation Club and two Harbour Clubs in the UK. There are also ten sites in Europe including clubs in Amsterdam, Brussels, Barcelona and Dublin. The combination of these leading brands in racquets, health and fitness, has created an extensive portfolio of family orientated clubs. David Lloyd Leisure has over 450,000 members and employs some 6,000 people; including an expert health & fitness team of over 750 and more than 350 tennis professionals. Across all clubs, David Lloyd Leisure has 12,500 exercise machines, over 150 swimming pools (of which half are indoor) and offers over 10,000 exercise classes per week. It operates 700 tennis courts (over half of which are indoor), as well as 180 badminton courts and 140 squash courts. Additional facilities include health & beauty spas, club lounges with free internet access, crèches, nurseries and specialist sports shops.

About Waste King Ltd

A specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King serves the domestic and commercial markets. It focuses not only on providing a friendly, efficient, cost-effective service but also one which is environmentally friendly. In particular, Waste King’s uniformed, Environment Agency-licensed staff take time to ensure that the maximum amount of waste can be recycled and that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way. Waste King was formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’.

Further information from:

Glenn Currie, Waste King Ltd, 01442 216784 / 07761 577001; glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com

The waste collections and recycling specialist, Waste King, has reported a record month for its waste collection activities in October.

During the month, the company collected, among other things:

• Over 11,000 kilogrammes of wood
• Over 2,500 kilogrammes of cardboard
• Nearly 5,200 kilogrammes of hardcore, in addition to
• Nearly 50,000 kilogrammes of ‘general’ waste

“Roughly 80 per cent of all this waste came from commercial sources, while the rest came from the domestic market,” revealed Waste King’s Glenn Currie.

“It’s encouraging to see that more and more people – both in businesses and where their own homes are concerned – are becoming increasingly keen on disposing of their waste in the most ecologically efficient way,” he said.

“The more waste that can be segregated before collection, the less waste needs to go into the landfill sites which are beginning to cause concern for environmentalists and others who are concerned about the well-being of our environment and, ultimately, the planet,” he added.

This increased business activity – which has seen Waste King increase its revenue by seven per cent month on month this year – has prompted the company to enlarge its labour force to cope with the growth in demand for environmentally friendly waste collection, clearance and recycling.

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About Waste King Ltd

A specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King serves the domestic and commercial markets. It focuses not only on providing a friendly, efficient, cost-effective service but also one which is environmentally friendly. In particular, Waste King’s uniformed, Environment Agency-licensed staff take time to ensure that the maximum amount of waste can be recycled and that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Waste King was formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’.

Further information from:

Glenn Currie,

Waste King Ltd, 01442 216784 / 07761 577001; glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

Bob Little,

Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com