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Waste and Recycling Fires

Do you know that there are approximately 700 fires every year in waste-processing centres that are caused by batteries being thrown in household rubbish bins? If that is what the small batteries do, can you imagine what the larger, more commercial batteries do? According to The Environmental Services Association, resulting fires, cost the fire [...]

Waste and Recycling Fires2024-07-03T15:52:13+01:00

Separating fact from fiction – your guide to specifying and buying precast concrete firewalls

Following the well-publicised spate of fires within the waste and wood recycling sectors in the last few years the Environment Agency (EA) have been changing their regulatory approach to licence holders. The EA has been insisting companies implement increasingly stringent measures involving reducing stockpile sizes as a way of reducing the risk that a fire [...]

Separating fact from fiction – your guide to specifying and buying precast concrete firewalls2016-03-29T10:50:29+01:00

Fires in sewers, combustible pipes and pipeline integrity – is it worth the risk?

On 28th September 2014 fire-fighters were called to a fire at a building site at Cargo Fleet Lane, Middlesbrough after reports that 20 large plastic sewerage pipes had deliberately been set alight. The blaze resulted in the streets surrounding the site having to be cordoned off after the area was blanketed in a cloud of [...]

Fires in sewers, combustible pipes and pipeline integrity – is it worth the risk?2016-03-29T10:57:17+01:00

Five questions to ask about your Fire Risk Management Strategy

With an increasing number of fires occurring at waste and recycling facilities across the UK, there’s a growing need for firms to take a more proactive approach to their fire risk management and to develop more sophisticated disaster recovery plans.

Five questions to ask about your Fire Risk Management Strategy2018-12-30T09:41:51+00:00
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