The Association of British Insurers’, in partnership with Boston Consulting Group, sets out an ambitious climate change roadmap including some key areas where ABI believe their sector can have a unique impact and where the ABI is committed to working collaboratively to help its customers and the stakeholders they work with across the economy adapt.

SYNETIQ, the UK’s leading integrated vehicle salvage, dismantling and recycling company, has been shortlisted in two categories at this year’s annual BusinessGreen Leaders Awards. 

At the recent G20 Climate Summit in Geneva, eight of the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers committed to play their part in accelerating the transition to a net-zero emissions economy, as required by the Paris Agreement.

In all sectors covered in the report, provisional data recently released shows that a total of 142 workers were killed at work in Great Britain in 2020/21, an increase of 29 from the previous year, although, in the waste and recycling sector alone, the number of fatalities was three, which was lower than the previous five years.

SYNETIQ, the UK’s leading integrated vehicle salvage, dismantling and recycling business, has sponsored the Doncaster Rebels Netball Club.

CD Salvage has invested in new technology to make sourcing stock as easy as ordering an Uber. The new app allows buyers to search its full range of stock and buy at the push of a button.

IAA has made significant investments and rolled out new services to build upon its standing as a leader in salvage industry modernisation. Offering customers access to Payit™ by NatWest as part of the IAA UK e-commerce platform is yet another step forward.

Investment in training and development is central to Silverlake Automotive Recycling’s [Silverlake] business and people strategy. Strengthening operations in transport and logistics, three team members have undertaken extended driver training and passed the DVSA test to become C+E licenced drivers. Reinforcing quality assurance in recycled, green parts, seven team members from dismantling, parts preparation and imaging have completed and passed the newly launched VRA Parts Grading course.

ATF Professional spoke to Tom Hayward, Managing Director of I Need Spares Ltd, a vehicle recycling and green parts retail specialist, about his company’s experience of taking on apprentices.

Following its donation of two children’s vein finding machines for use in the A&E department at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in 2019, Huntingdon-based British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA) has made a further donation to Cambridgeshire Community Service’s NHS Trust Specialist Community Nursing service by funding a third AccuVein machine to support practitioners working in the community.

Multi-agency operation to curtail the activities of a convicted criminal in Worcestershire.

CarTakeBack provides the latest scrap car price index for June 2021, which sees a 74% increase on the same time last year.

With just over two months until the return of CARS & MRE, the organisers have provided a preview of some of the key topics to be addressed in the conference theatres at the two-day event on 29-30 September at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry.

ATF Professional received confirmation from Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) that the deadline for end-of-life vehicle recycling targets has been extended to 1st September rather than the usual 1st July.