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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.