I had to check when I last did a blog for LARAC Online and it was five months ago back in March. In it I talked about the various stakeholder meetings I and members of the Executive had been going to for consistency, DRS and EPR.
This year the Recycle Week theme will be about thanking the nation for continuing to recycle despite the challenges that COVID-19 has presented. Find out more about the campaign in this blog, plus download the Recycle Week 2020 Resource Pack and Recycle Now’s new Social Norming Pack too.
The HSE released the provisional annual data for work-related fatal accidents on July 1st. The statistics have revealed that 111 workers were fatally injured at work between April 2019 and March 2020 (a rate of 0.34 deaths per 100,000 workers), which, is now the lowest year on record.
Lockdown easing has started, and as more businesses start to reopen, it made me wonder - what would people say they had missed the most during lockdown? Restaurants, pubs, hairdressers, holidays, seeing friends and family? Well in our industry, you would think a trip to the tip/HWRC/CA site would be in the top 10 judging by the reaction of certain MPs, which culminated in the “tips and toilets letter” (never thought I’d say that!) that was sent to our chief execs last month.
Uncertain times often change the way people go about their everyday lives and may undermine previous good habits.