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Defra to offer £1.4M for waste tracking competition
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is offering five organisations a chance to acquire funding of up to £80,000 in order to develop a digital solution for tracking waste movement from treatment to end destination. The funding is...
Staff Profile: Karen Smith
With a strong background in sales and customer service, Karen Smith is responsible for business development at GBN. Working alongside commercial manager Samatha Wilson, she looks after clients and is also in charge of marketing. “My role is very...
Meet Hannah the Hawk – GBN’s expert bird scarer
A Harris Hawk named Hannah is helping GBN to reduce the risk of bird strikes to aircraft flying over the company’s Southend depot in Essex. The hawk and her handler Tim are employed by GBN to scare away seagulls and other birds from the site...
Chunky’s dustcart visits Manor Fields School
Children at Manor Fields Primary School in Bishop’s Stortford got to experience a dustcart up close during a recent visit from GBN. The company brought a waste collection vehicle known as Chunky’s dustcart to the school playground to show to two...
Changes to waste rules move closer
Revisions to the Waste Framework Directive – which governments waste and recycling across the European Union – are closer to being agreed by member states, including the UK. The revised Directive is expected to apply to the UK after Brexit as the...
GBN upgrades fleet with £450,000 investment
Three new state-of-the-art lorries and four vans have hit the road this month following a £450,000 investment by GBN—the latest stage in the firm’s continuous vehicle upgrade programme. The company has bought two Mercedes-Benz Arocs 2651...
Focus on… Harlow Recycling Centre
GBN’s Harlow recycling and waste transfer station on River Way is the largest of its kind in the Harlow area. Licensed to handle 75,000 tonnes of waste a year, the depot provides skip hire and recycling services to customers across Hertfordshire...
New policies likely in 2018
The end of 2017 has seen a flurry of activity in terms of recycling policy development at the national scale and 2018 looks to get even busier. Politician Michael Gove has added a new dynamism to Defra in terms of the UK having a politician in...
Staff Profile: Samantha Wilson
As GBN’s commercial manager, Samantha Wilson is responsible for new business and looking after the company’s existing clients. Drawing on 18 years’ experience in the waste sector, it is her job to make sure customers are happy and that any problems...
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