Green Apple Award Winner, Waste King, Becomes Green World Ambassador
At a ceremony held in the Houses of Parliament, at the Palace of Westminster, in London, at the end of November, Waste King was named a winner of this year’s Green Apple Environment Awards. The awards celebrate environmental best practice and are open to any organisation, community or... - December 06, 2023
Waste King Helps Hightown Keep Its Carbon Footprint to a Minimum
Hightown Housing Association (HHA) has increased its commitment to working with Waste King to improve the efficiency and cleanliness of its waste collection and disposal processes, while also being environmentally friendly and keeping the charitable housing association’s carbon footprint to a... - September 15, 2023
Waste King Reports Rising Revenue and Jobs
Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, is experiencing huge growth in its business despite the current challenging market conditions. - August 10, 2023
New Eco-Friendly Electric Vehicles Join Waste King’s Expanding Fleet
Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, has started regenerating its vehicle fleet by investing in its first electrically powered trucks. In addition, it has added two "junk removal" vehicles to its fleet, which is growing following... - October 15, 2021
Waste King Removes 180 Sacks of Waste After Roadside Litter-Pick
Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, has collaborated with its near neighbour and competitor company, Camiers Waste Management, to clear up litter from the verges and hedgerows of roads close to both companies’ headquarters, in Long Marston, near Tring, Hertfordshire. - March 04, 2021
Captain Tom Moore Becomes a Waste King Customer
Chart-topping centenarian Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised some £32m to help the UK's National Health Service during the coronavirus pandemic, has become a Waste King customer - thanks to the BBC. - September 17, 2020
Third Major Green Apple Environment Award for Waste King
Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, was named a winner in this year’s Green Apple Awards, at a ceremony held in the Houses of Parliament, at the Palace of Westminster, in London on November 25. Rewarding environmental best practice and... - December 04, 2019
International Professional Squash Tournament in Tring Sponsored by Waste King
Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, has become one of the sponsors of the 2019/20 PSA World Tour, the international squash circuit organised by the Professional Squash Association (PSA). This month, the PSA World Tour tournament comes to... - October 05, 2019
Waste King in Local Football Sponsorship Deal
Waste King recently signed a sponsorship deal for the 2019/20 season with Pitstone and Ivinghoe Junior Football Club’s Under 15 Girls’ Team. - June 28, 2019
Waste King Takes Care of the Waste from Oktoberfest
While the thousands of visitors to this year’s London Oktoberfest got stuck in to authentic German beer and food, as well as finding time to listen to live music and enjoy the ambience of the festival, the event posed different challenges for the environmentally friendly waste collection and... - November 08, 2018
Waste King Helps Make a Young Boy’s Garden Dreams Come True
Waste collection and recycling services specialist, Waste King, is one of four companies which have collaborated to help Tristan, a five-year old boy in Milton Keynes who has Down’s Syndrome, to play safely in his own garden. - November 02, 2018
Waste King Helps to Make Tristan’s Dream Garden Possible
Waste King, an environmentally friendly company specialising in waste collection and recycling services for both domestic and commercial customers, has joined forces with local organisations to help Tristan, a young boy in Milton Keynes who has Down’s Syndrome and has faced a number of tough... - August 04, 2018
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. According to Debbie Mamo, Waste King’s Sales and Customer Service Manager, the industry standard for telephone calls being... - June 07, 2015
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... - November 15, 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... - September 23, 2014
Waste King’s Recent Rubbish and Recycling Round-Up
Waste King - a specialist collections, clearance and recycling company that focuses on providing a service which is highly environmentally friendly - has recently undertaken four projects. - November 13, 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. “Having an active CSR strategy is extremely important... - October 19, 2013
Waste King Wins a Further Gold Recycling Award
Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has won a second Gold Award from the National Recycling Stars Scheme. It won its first Gold Award from the Scheme last year and, in 2011, it won a Silver Award. The scheme, run by E2B Pulse, the UK carbon reduction network,... - September 20, 2013
More Than Fifty Waste King Waste Pods Now in Use
More than 50 commercial customers of Waste King - the specialist collection, clearance and recycling company based in Hemel Hempstead – are now using the company’s waste pods to segregate and remove their waste. This is in preference to using skips in which to put the waste. - September 11, 2013
Afghan Association Festival Keeps Green with Waste King’s Help
Many people know of the UK’s current involvement in Afghanistan but less well known is the work that The Afghan Association does in this country to represent the interests of the UK’s Afghan community. In addition to providing an advice and referral service for Afghans, particularly in... - September 08, 2013
Waste King Cleans Up After the Festival of Cricket
When it came to clearing up after a Cricket Festival, the organisers turned to Waste King, the specialist collection, clearance and recycling company based in Hemel Hempstead. - September 04, 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. - August 14, 2013
Waste King Takes on Three Diverse Challenges
In recent weeks, Waste King has: * Won a contract from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), * Delivered two of its waste pods (empty) to, and collected them (full) from The Grove * Cleared two sites containing eastern European illegal immigrants - July 24, 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. - July 23, 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, has been completely clearing the recently closed Amersham & Wycombe College. - July 12, 2013
Waste King in Harrow Cannabis Factory 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... - June 15, 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. Waste King’s managing director, Glenn Currie, explained:... - May 02, 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... - April 24, 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. Waste King’s operations... - April 20, 2013
Waste King Helps Charity Get Ready for Camilla’s Visit
When HRH the Duchess of Cornwall was about to visit Medical Detection Dogs, a Milton Keynes-based charity that works with researchers, NHS Trusts and Universities, the charity contacted Waste King to arrange for its operatives to collect some old, waste carpet tiles. - February 28, 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. - February 27, 2013
Waste King Supplies Waste Pods for Its "Greener" Customers
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. - February 09, 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). - January 26, 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... - January 16, 2013
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. - December 19, 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. - December 12, 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. They are Richard John, who has become Operations Supervisor; Cheryl Peters, who has joined as a Customer Service specialist, and Matt... - December 05, 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. Medical Detection Dogs... - November 25, 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. - November 21, 2012
Waste King Named as a Finalist in This Year’s CIWM Awards for Environmental Excellence
Waste King 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. - October 26, 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. - August 24, 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. - July 18, 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. - July 12, 2012
Waste King Cage Helps Maximise Firm’s Recycling Opportunities
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 - has turned for advice and help to Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company. - June 30, 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. Waste King’s managing... - June 27, 2012
Major Landfill Tax Changes Won’t Affect Our Customers, Says Waste King
Waste King, the UK-based 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. - June 02, 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... - May 20, 2012