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Turning Waste into Money for Wishes 4 Kids

Bakers Waste Services' chosen charity this year is Wishes 4 Kids, and amongst our fund raising efforts, we included turning waste into a resource as a way of raising extra money for the charity.

Waste that Bakers thought could be reused has been cleaned up has been put on our ebay account, with all proceeds going to Wishes 4 Kids. We have been amazed at the response generated in utilizing the waste. Not only are we reducing the waste that we would usually send for landfill or recycling, we are re-using and generating money for charity.

This concept came after Bakers Waste Services have been working closely with NISP
(National Industrial Symbiosis Programme) for many years now and Managing Director Paul Baker, thought this would be a fantastic opportunity to generate more money for our chosen Charity, Wishes 4 Kids.

Bakers Waste Renew LCFC contract

Bakers Waste Services, Leicester, are proud to announce the extension of our contract with Leicester City Footbal Club as the club's official Recycling Partner, for a further two years.

To coincide with the extension of the contract, Bakers Waste Services were highlighted in the club's programme for the home game against QPR last Saturday, September 18th. MD Paul Baker was interviewed in the programme and singled out Martyn Waghorn as a favourite player.

To view the interview as a pdf, click here .

Leicester City Waste Management

LCFC 0% Landfill

Bakers Waste Services Limited are proud to announce they have secured a deal with LCFC to maintain the waste contract at the Walkers Stadium and the training ground for a further 2 years.

Bakers Waste have had a fantastic working relationship with LCFC for the past 3 years. With the drive and passion LCFC have for recycling and their environment we have achieved unbelievable results. The stadium currently recycles 90% of the waste it produces and now Bakers Waste have secured a deal for 'Waste to Energy' for the residual waste they produce, so very shortly LCFC will be at 0% waste to Landfill.

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Nottingham Waste Recycling Contract

Bakers Waste are celebrating a new £500,000 waste management and recycling contract in Nottinghamshire, which will lead to new jobs as the company expands its waste management services in Nottingham. The company will need to expand its its refuse truck fleet from 31-34 vehicles.

Bakers Waste recycles cardboard, paper, plastic, glass and metal. Other waste is either used for composting or animal bedding. It also deals with hazardous and electrical waste.

Three-quarters of the 37,000 tonnes of waste it deals with each year is recycled, with the firm pledging that in five years' time all of its waste will be recycled.

Waste Management Safety

Bakers Waste - putting safety first

Bakers Waste Services Ltd take health & safety on site very seriously and in order to show our further commitment, Bakers Waste are working with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) by taking advantage of their fully funded ‘DO YOUR BIT' training. Bakers Waste believe that the training will help to improve our organisation via the shared best practice ideas that will be generated via the training events.

Bakers Waste are one of approximately 80 organisations who will be participating within this prestigious training and we believe that our customers will benefit by having piece of mind that we do everything possible in order to ensure we operate to the highest health and safety standards.
Our organisational improvements can be measured over time using a diagnostic tool; our success over the next few months will be reported both internally and externally as well as the benefits that the training has brought to the organisation.

Link to HSE website:
http://news.hse.gov.uk/lau/2010/04/30/do-your-bit-campaign-%E2%80%93-subsidised-training-from-hse/

Watermead Clean Up

Bakers Waste help clean up local beauty spot

After the Leicester Mercury highlighted that parts of Watermead Country Park, near Syston, had become littered with debris, including dumped road signs, plastic bags and toys, Bakers Waste Services Ltd contacted the Mercury offering to help.

Judy Collingsworth, business development manager at Bakers Waste, offered to send a team to collect and recycle items.

She said:

"We read about the problem in the paper and thought we should do something. We're a local business and we want to help a beauty spot. We'd like to send a crew down to do a litter pick and recycle the items. We'll need to inspect the site first to see how many people would be required to clear it all up but we're happy to do it free of charge."

Bakers Waste Services staff helping to clean up Watermead Country Park.

SAFEcontractor

Working More Safely

Bakers Waste Services Ltd are dedicated to promoting high standards of competence and compliance through working towards SAFEcontractor certification.

SAFEcontractor is a third party certification scheme that assesses a companies health and safety arrangements. Many major clients recognise the scheme and accept SAFEcontractor certificate as confirmation of competency.

For a copy of our certification, please click here .

More details of the SAFEcontractor.

Learning About Waste Management

Bakers Waste happy to teach others

Judith Hollingworth and Hayley Chilton, of Bakers Waste Services Ltd, helped Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) members learn about environment and waste control by delivering a presentation at Dunchurch Park Hotel earlier this month. This meeting was organised by Midland Branch East District of the IOSH and participants gained an understanding of various commercial solutions to waste disposal and recycling, along with an overview of current and proposed environmental legislation.

The presentation helped IOSH members gain credits as part of their CPD (continued professional development) programme.

The presentation was part of Bakers Waste Services goal to teach organisations and individuals about waste management and waste control. If you would like to learn more, please contact Judith or Hayley on 0370 350 6 350.

Entrepreneur of the Year

Paul Baker has been awarded the prestigeous "Entrepreneur of the Year" at this year's Leicestershire Business Awards gala dinner at Leicester Tigers on April 23rd.

Paul and his team have grown the business from sole trader to a staff of 40, with an annual turnover of £3.2 million, in 8 years. Paul has called his Entrepreneur of the Year prize at Leicestershire Business Awards a "fantastic recognition" of his hard work and that of his staff.

Mr Baker picked up the award, sponsored by Viking Direct, at a gala dinner at Leicester Tigers' ground. The awards were sponsored by Freeth Cartwright, RSM Tenon and Prospect Leicestershire.

More information about Paul's award can be downloaded here .

Read more about the award here.

Wishes 4 Kids

Bakers Waste Services & Wishes 4 Kids

This year Bakers Waste Services Ltd have pledged to try to raise £1,000 for the charity Wishes 4 Kids.

Wishes 4 Kids has been created to grant a wish for children and youngsters in Leicestershire who are life limited, terminally ill, have experienced life-changing physical or emotional traumas, have suffered major abuse or are diagnosed as HIV Positive. The Charity grants wishes for those of eighteen years and below.

Our goal is to raise over a £1,000 over the course of the year to help this Leicestershire charity in its admirable work. Please visit the Bakers Waste Wishes 4 Kids web page and get involved!