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5th June 2015

Waste King reports above average levels of customer service

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has announced that its office staff are achieving above average levels of customer service.

19th March 2015

Waste King benefits from a dose of its own environmentally friendly medicine

Waste King is taking its own advice as far as being environmentally friendly is concerned.

6th March 2015

Waste King rescues and recycles run-away dog

Waste King - a specialist collections, clearance and recycling company that focuses on providing a highly environmentally friendly service - guarantees to recycle 98 per cent of every load it collects. However, it had an unexpected challenge recently when its Customer Service Assistants, Harry Durham and Andy Morgan, came across a run-away dog not far from the company's headquarters.

13th November 2014

Waste King praises the value of apprenticeships

Recently the proud possessor of an NVQ Level 3 in Customer Service, Ben Brimson, Office Supervisor/ Team Leader at Waste King - a specialist collections, clearance and recycling company that focuses on providing a service which is highly environmentally friendly - is now continuing his studies by embarking on an NVQ level 5 in management and leadership.

22nd September 2014

Waste King announces headquarters' move

Waste King - a specialist collections, clearance and recycling company that focuses on providing a service which is highly environmentally friendly - is moving its headquarters from the Frogmore Industrial Estate at Two Waters, Hemel Hempstead, to the Old Ministry Airfield, in Cheddington.

22nd May 2014

Waste King denies Boris Johnson's noise accusation

A team from Waste King - a specialist collections, clearance and recycling company that focuses on providing a service which is highly environmentally friendly - was carrying out a collection in London recently when the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, called round and asked the team if they were 'making all that racket next door'.

11th November 2013

Waste King’s recent rubbish and recycling round-up

Among the recent projects undertaken by Waste King - a specialist collections, clearance and recycling company that focuses on providing a service which is highly environmentally friendly – are...

17th October 2013

Waste King reaffirms and expands its CSR activities

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company that focuses on providing a service which is highly environmentally friendly, has renewed its corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy for the forthcoming year.

2nd September2013

Waste King cleans up after the Festival of Cricket

While cricket interest over recent months has focused on England’s 3 – 0 victory over Australia in this summer’s Ashes series, the UK’s Sri Lankan community has had its own cricketing focus: the Festival of Cricket, organised by the Sri Lankan Schools Old Boys’ Associations (OBAs).

12th August 2013

Waste King helps clean up Dunstable Downs

When the National Trust (NT) wanted to clear rubbish that had collected on Dunstable Downs, it thought to hire a skip - but Waste King explained that clearing the rubbish by hand is both a ‘greener’ and more cost-effective option.

22nd July 2013

Waste King takes on three diverse challenges

In recent weeks, Waste King, a specialist collection, clearance and recycling company based in Hemel Hempstead, has:

• Won a contract from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), which is based in Soho Square, London, to remove all its electrical and mixed waste in central London
• Delivered two of its waste pods (empty) to, and collected them (full) from, The Grove, the luxury hotel, spa and golf resort in Watford
• Cleared – at the request of the landlord – two sites at a farm south of St Albans containing eastern European illegal immigrants

10th July 2013

Environmentally friendly Waste King clears a plethora of places 

Among the recent projects for Waste King, a specialist collections, clearance and recycling company based in Hemel Hempstead, have been:
• Working for the private health services chain, Nuffield Health
• Clearing an area for the high street opticians, Specsavers, to enable that particular branch of the company to comply with fire, health and safety regulations and other legislation
• Completely clearing the recently closed Amersham & Wycombe College

13th June 2013

Waste King in cannabis clean-up 

After two men were jailed for operating a cannabis factory at a house in Harrow, which produced an almost ‘industrial’ quantity of the class-B drug, the house’s landlord engaged Waste King, a specialist collections, clearance and recycling company based in Hemel Hempstead, to make it fit, once more, for human habitation.

4th June 2013

Wombling Waste King helps Haileybury archives 

Despite so many of us being familiar with The Wombles – making good use of the things that other people throw away – as a society, we still throw away valuable parts of our community heritage.

30th April 2013

Waste King sees commercial customers increasingly opting for waste pods over skips 

More than 40 commercial customers of Waste King - the specialist collection, clearance and recycling company based in Hemel Hempstead – have now switched from using skips to waste pods to segregate and remove their waste.

22nd April 2013

Waste King doubles turnover in a year 

Since moving to its current premises a couple of years ago, Waste King, a specialist collection, clearance and recycling company based in Hemel Hempstead, has now achieved the milestone of processing 10,000 orders. Of even more significance is that this growing number of orders has contributed to doubling the company’s turnover within a year.

18th April 2013

Fluorescent tube coffins prove a hit with Waste King customers 

According to Waste King, a specialist collection, clearance and recycling company based in Hemel Hempstead, its fluorescent tube ‘coffins’ are proving attractive to customers who want to dispose of their spent tubes in the most environmentally friendly way.

26th February 2013

Waste King helps charity get ready for Camilla's visit

Any impending visitor is enough to make us want to 'tidy up a bit' but, when that visitor is a member of the Royal Family, it's an even more impelling reason for us to get rid of unsightly waste.

25th February 2013

Waste King takes off after The Eagle has landed

The final of the hit ITV diving show 'Splash!' - which saw Eddie, the Eagle, Edwards win in spectacular style - was the signal for Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, to spring into action. Under contract to Two Four Studios, working on behalf of the ITV1 network, Waste King's operatives cleared the equivalent of six skip loads of waste as the 'Splash!' set was broken up.

8th February 2013

Waste King supplies waste pods for its 'greener' customers

With increasingly stringent regulations governing the disposal of such things as waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), plasterboard and hazardous waste, Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, is seeing increasing numbers of its corporate and care sector customers opting for 'waste pods' as a means of storing and disposing of their waste.

24th January 2013

Waste King sees upsurge in demand for Euro-bins from Hertfordshire businesses

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has reported a substantial increase so far this year in Hertfordshire-based businesses switching to its wheeled bins (known as Euro-bins).

14th January 2013

Waste King continues its working relationship with the media

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, is continuing its working relationship with the film and television industry - most recently by carrying out some waste collections at Teddington Studios, in Middlesex, for Two Four Studios, working on behalf of the ITV1 network.

17th December 2012

Waste King expands its environmentally friendly recycling opportunities

To enable even more people to recycle a wider range of their unwanted goods, Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has added an extra bin outside its headquarters in Hemel Hempstead's Frogmore Industrial Estate.

10th December 2012

Waste King introduces waste hoarding containers and cages

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, is introducing steel waste hoarding containers for its regular customers. Not only is this a simpler, safer and more cost-efficient way of storing waste, Waste King also believes that it makes segregating the waste easier - thus enabling the maximum amount of waste to be recycled and keep any resulting landfill tax paid to a minimum.

3rd December 2012

Waste King enlarges its workforce in response to its growing popularity and workload

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has recently enlarged its workforce with the addition of three further office staff.

23rd November 2012

Waste King celebrates Movember among other charitable causes

Having pledged to give 30 per cent of its business turnover in one, nominated, day to the Milton Keynes-based charity, Medical Detection Dogs, Waste King - the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company - has recently handed over a cheque for £350.

19th November 2012

Waste King rescues threatened snakes

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, is becoming used to rescuing distressed livestock as part of its day-to-day activities. It has now added two grass snakes to its list which began, in August 2011, with ‘Colin' a Giant African Land Snail.

12th November 2012

Waste King's recycling advice in the wake of local fires

Two large fires in the St Albans area this weekend have illustrated the dangers of storing - rather than recycling - combustible materials.

24th October 2012

Waste King named as a finalist in this year's CIWM Awards for Environmental Excellence

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has been named on the shortlist for this year's Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) Awards for Environmental Excellence. Waste King's nomination is in the ‘SME Recycling Performance of the Year' category.

18th October 2012

Waste King wins the British Heart Foundation's heartfelt thanks

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has received a certificate from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) recording the BHF's ‘heartfelt thanks' for Waste King giving the charity 19 tonnes of recycled books, DVDs and music CDs that can be reused and sold to support the BHF's work.

9th October 2012

Waste King helps customers increase their recycle rate

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, is helping its customers to be even 'greener' by helping them take steps to maximise the amount of waste materials they can recycle. This involves Waste King in supplying customers with special containers for their waste materials.

3rd October 2012

Waste King wins two Herts Green Awards' finalist certificates

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has been twice named as a finalist in the Hertfordshire Green Awards, at a ceremony held at Knebworth Barns, in Knebworth Park near Stevenage.

22nd August 2012

Waste King expands its CSR strategy to support Medical Detection Dogs

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has recently expanded its corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy by pledging to give 30 per cent of its business turnover in one day to Medical Detection Dogs. This pledge is in addition to its continuing practical and monetary support for other charities.

16th July 2012

Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph feature Waste King

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, followed up being mentioned in The Sunday Times' Appointments section on 15th July with being featured in the Business section of the Daily Telegraph on 16th July.

10th July 2012

Gold Recycling Award for Waste King

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has now added a Gold Award to the Silver Award it received last year from the National Recycling Stars Scheme. The scheme, run by E2B Pulse, the UK carbon reduction network, rewards an organisation's commitment to increasing the amount of waste it recycles and to improving the environmental awareness of its staff.

28th June 2012

Waste King Cage helps maximise firm's recycling opportunities

When the Luton branch of Portable Offices - a leading UK supplier of temporary offices, portable buildings, mobile offices, modular buildings, storage containers and other portable units - found that not only had the price of skips risen but it was amassing waste products, such as fridges and electrical products, that couldn't be put into a skip, it turned for advice and help to Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company.

25th June 2012

Caring care home chooses Waste King

Care home chain, Sunrise Senior Living, has chosen the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King to collect a range of waste - not just ‘bulk' but also hazardous waste - from its home in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire.

31st May 2012

Major landfill tax changes won’t affect our customers, says Waste King

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has assured its customers that its charges are, at present, unaffected by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC)’s recently announced changes to the rules which govern Landfill Tax. Industry commentators expect these changes, which have sent shockwaves throughout the waste management industry, to have a significant and immediate impact on the cost of waste disposal throughout the UK.

18th May 2012

Waste King raises tons for charity

In the last two months, Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has donated over five tons of recycled books, DVDs and music CDs to the British Heart Foundation (BHF). In addition, Waste King has donated and recycled over a ton of clothes in aid of the Salvation Army.

13th April 2012

Waste King helps Football Club to achieve its goals

The specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has contributed funds towards goals and other equipment at St Margaretsbury Football Club. Its donation - part of the company's on-going corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitment - was prompted by a request from John Waites, of London-based City Interiors, who is connected with St Margaretsbury Football Club and whose company regularly uses Waste King's services.

2nd April 2012

Local MP visits award-winning environment-friendly recycler

Mike Penning, the Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, has paid a visit the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King. While there, he found out about Waste King's many environmentally-friendly waste and recycling initiatives and congratulated the company and its staff on their award-winning environmentally friendly policies and business strategy.27 March 2012

Recycled computers have therapeutic value to autistic Matthew

Waste King, the environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has found an unusual outlet for it to recycle old computers.

24th February 2012

Colin, the Giant African Land Snail, continues his conquest of St Cuthbert Mayne School

Colin, the Giant African Land Snail which the environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, saved last year from being consigned to the 'great green bin in the sky' by one of its customers, has become both a teaching aid and a great hit with Sophie Dowling's class at St Cuthbert Mayne School, Hemel Hempstead.

15th February 2012

Survey Shows Waste King Brand Valued for Environmental Friendliness and Professionalism

Customers choose to use Waste King - the environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company - primarily because of its environmental friendliness in guaranteeing to recycle at least 85 per cent of all the waste that Waste King collects. In reality, the figure is now over 90 per cent.

8th February 2012

Waste King names ten items to recycle rather than send to landfill

In a further bid to reduce the pressure on landfill sites, Waste King - the environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company - has published a list of ten items which are recyclable but are, commonly, sent to landfill.

31st January 2012

Waste King's Charity Collection Points Benefit Everyone and the Environment

A recycling point for clothes and shoes, installed last year at Waste King's premises in the Frogmore Industrial Estate in Hemel Hempstead, has proved so popular that it's been filled - and emptied - over 50 times. This has helped to raise funds for Waste King's chosen charities of the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the Salvation Army.

27th January 2012

Waste King’s Eight Steps to Being Greener

Waste King, the environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company which guarantees to recycle over 84 per cent of all the waste it collects, has published its top eight suggestions to help everyone enjoy a 'greener’ lifestyle.

8th November 2011

Waste King reports a 78 per cent rise in revenue

The specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has reported that - for the last two quarters in succession - its revenue has risen by 78 per cent compared with the same periods last year.

31st October 2011

Sky becomes the limit for Waste King

Waste from high value projects has been a feature of recent work for the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King.
 

27th October 2011

Growing workload prompts Waste King to enlarge its vehicle fleet

Recently, Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has spent a week clearing four 16-bedroom Victorian properties in Luton.

17th October 2011

Colin, the Waste King snail, goes on tour

Having read - in a local newspaper - about Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, had saving a Giant African Land Snail from being consigned to the 'great green bin in the sky' by one of the company's customers, Sophie Dowling asked Waste King if her school could 'borrow' the snail and Waste King has agreed.

12th October 2011

Waste King becomes a football supporter

As part of its on-going corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitment, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has contributed funds towards goals and other equipment at St Margaretsbury Football Club.

27th September 2011

A historic television and expansion plans for Waste King

Customers of the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, are producing increasingly interesting and unusual items for it to recycle.

16th September 2011

Waste King’s rapid response collection service wins customers’ approval

Putting waste in a skip is an accepted strategy - especially if that waste is being generated regularly as a business by-product. However, as at least one organisation has been discovering, having a skip on your premises can attract fly tippers.

6th September 2011

Recycler Waste King raises its own recycling rate

The specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has instituted a new system within its warehouse operations at its Hemel Hempstead headquarters which has further increased its impressive recycling rate.

30th August 2011

Waste King recycles High Street retailer's batteries

The specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has won the contract to recycle heavy duty batteries from the IT systems of a major High Street retailer.

24th August 2011

Waste King continues recycling for the British film industry

The specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, is continuing its special relationship with the British Film Industry by not only supplying a 40 yard waste container to Elstree Film Studios but also recycling 100 per cent of the materials that were put into it.

19th August 2011

Waste King rescues Giant African Land Snail

The specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, acceded to an unusual customer request recently.

18th July 2011

Waste King recycles for charities

The specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has teamed up with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the Salvation Army in order to help other people's waste materials benefit those in need.

15th July 2011

Green - and Silver - glory for Waste King

Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has received two awards for its environmentally friendly policies and business strategy.

11th July 2011

Waste King: working for a greener, environmentally-friendly world

While the hot summer weather has been encouraging many people to ‘take it easy', the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has been redoubling its efforts to make London and the Home Counties a greener, more environmentally-friendly place.

31st March 2010

Waste King collaborates with Hertfordshire's largest independent specialist kitchen designers and fitters

The specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, is now collaborating with Hertfordshire's largest independent specialist kitchen designers and fitters: DJ Design, of St Albans.

24th March 2010

Waste King identifies key recycling trends as British economy recovers

The specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, believes that there are signs that the British economy is starting its recovery with an increase in construction and maintenance activity in both the trade and domestic sectors.

10th February 2010

BBC Three Counties Radio turns for advice to Waste King

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.

5th February 2010

Waste King in TV ads clear-up

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.

25th January 2009

Waste King raises awareness of Site Waste Management Plans

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

19th January 2010

Waste King reveals 12 amazing facts about recycling

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.

13th January 2010

Waste King publishes its pledges to environmentally friendly waste disposal

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.

29th December 2009

Waste King supplies BBC local radio's recycling experts

Andy Cattigan and Glenn Currie - the founders of the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King - bring their recycling and environmentally friendly waste management skills to radio on Monday 4th January, when they are the guests in ‘The Expert Hour', part of Lorna Milton's afternoon show on BBC Three Counties Radio.

30th November 2009

Waste King helps customers save money

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.

25th November 2009

Waste King becomes a preferred supplier to the David Lloyd Leisure Group

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.

20th November 2009

Record month for Waste King

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

18th November 2009

Waste King takes its own advice - and re-uses office materials

The waste collections and recycling specialist, Waste King, has taken its own advice and has used recycled office equipment with which to kit out its Hemel Hempstead headquarters.

21st October 2009

Waste King: recyclers to the stars - and, sometimes, the stars themselves

The waste collections and recycling specialist, Waste King, has helped in the making of a new film - Re-Uniting the Rubins, a comedy drama about a completely dysfunctional Jewish family and starring Timothy Spall, Rhona Mitra, James Callis and Honor Blackman - by clearing up the various shooting locations after each day's filming.

15th October 2009

Waste King helps gyms improve their fitness over waste disposal

Waste King, the waste collections and recycling specialist, has helped the well known health and fitness club, LA Fitness, to 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.

 

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