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Have your say on the EA’s proposed fee rises!
At the end of November, the Environment Agency opened a consultation on reforming its charges for regulatory and non-regulatory work. Under the proposals put forward, the EA’s charges will rise significantly from April 2018 to reflect the true cost of delivering its...
New contract to supply fridges to AO Recycling
Wiser Recycling has signed a five year contract to supply 1,000 tonnes of fridges every year to AO Recycling. In June AO Recycling – the WEEE waste management arm of the leading online electrical retailer AO – launched the biggest fridge recycling facility in the UK....
Trio builds Wiser Group team
The Wiser Group team has expanded by three in the last month with the addition of Andrea Petrolati, Emma Ellams and Oliver Hirst. Andrea (pictured left) has joined Wiser Environment to support our growing portfolio of work in environmental, health and safety, energy...
Directors complete Summer of Challenges
This month the last event in the Summer of Challenges was completed in the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains by directors Russell and Dominic Hirst with their brother Adam. The trio took a three day mountain bike tour in the Bucegi & Piatra Craiului Mountains...
One year on, our Managing Director reflects…
A year after the fire that destroyed our Cambridgeshire facility, Wiser Recycling is in a much stronger place despite this most debilitating setback. Our focus in this past twelve months has been to look after our existing clients and to consolidate our business,...
Celebrate Recycle Week – Recycling is worth it!
The 14th Recycle Week kicks off this week with the theme ’Recycling - It’s Worth It!’ to encourage us all to recycle more. The aim this year is to promote the benefits of recycling and help bust recycling myths such as ‘it all goes to landfill anyway’. As a processor...
Recruiting Senior Environmental Consultant
Our sister company Wiser Environment is recruiting a Senior Consultant in permitting and health & safety to join their fast growing environmental consultancy. The Senior Consultant will provide expert advice to clients around environmental permitting and planning...
Directors climb over 25,000 feet in Pyrenees charity cycle
Last week, the Directors of Wiser Group overcame their latest test in the Summer of Challenges to raise money for the Fire Fighters Charity. The challenge saw the directors Russell and Dominic Hirst and Charlie Thomas joined by a friend Alistair Whitehead to cycle...
Wiser works to reduce the risk of future fires
Wiser Recycling continues to take steps towards rebuilding a recycling and reuse presence in St Ives, Cambridgeshire following the fire that devastated our waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) facility last September. But with a spate of similar fires...
Dominic ticks off second directors’ challenge
Dominic Hirst ticked off the second in the directors’ summer of challenges yesterday, mountain biking for thirteen hours which included 87 miles along Britain’s oldest road. Wiser’s Operations Director mountain biked along the Ridgeway Trail that starts in the World...