As a Company operating from 21 Service Centres across the UK, Cannon have had an ongoing programme of upgrading and replacing Hygiene Service Centres for some years. Having replaced on average one a year, 2006 has been a bumper year with the replacement of Leicester and Eastleigh (with Kings Lynn on target for December).

The new Leicester and Winchester sites continue the policy of co-locating with other Cannon Divisions & OCS Ltd (Cannon's sister Company). Both sites have Waste Management Licences permitting the acceptance of not just hyygiene and clinical waste, but

The second Hydroclave arrived at Knowl Hill in March 2006 and after commissioning was validated by the Environment agency to start operations in July. Many improvements have been made to the second unit including modification to the large rotating blade to allow faster unloading, and with the addition of up front shredding, the throughput for the site will be more than doubled whilst dramatically reducing the need for manual handling.

In November 2006 Grundon Waste Management Ltd start commissioning their new clinical and hazardous waste incinerator at Colnbrook near Heathrow. The facility has been built to replace the clinical incinerator that had to be closed earlier this year, to make space for the construction of the 440 thousand tonne per annum Energy From Waste facility at Colnbrook.

The new clinical incinerator has been built about 100 yards from the old plant and has enabled Grundon to construct a facility that incorporates all the design improvements learnt from operating the old incinerator for over...

One of the main issues facing companies transporting clinical waste in wheeled bins is the ADR requirement that all containers should be marked with a non removable two colour warning ‘infectious’ symbol (black on a white background).

Unlike with clinical waste bags, there is no derogation allowing black printing onto the natural yellow body of the containers. Until now carriers of clinical waste have been unable to fully comply with this requirement due to the restrictions some manufacturers have faced with hot foil printing, without the use of adhesive...