April 27th 2022 – Living Wage Employer, Meet Ross and Reducing your Business Waste Disposal Costs

APRIL 27, 2022

Keeping you up to date with all things waste

Flame UK Accredited as Living Wage Employer

We are delighted to announce that Flame UK has been accredited by the Living Wage Foundation as a Living Wage Employer.

Real Living Wage 

The Real Living Wage is the only rate of pay based on actual living costs and is voluntarily paid by 10,000 UK businesses who believe their staff deserve a wage which meets their everyday needs.

Managing Director of Flame UK, Pam Knight, said: “it’s very important to us as a company to demonstrate our commitment to fair pay.  Our staff are our strongest and most valuable asset and making sure that they are paid a fair wage is important to us and them.  We believe that everybody should be paid a wage based on what they need to live; and being accredited as a Living Wage Employer is a key step to showing our commitment to this”.

The Real Living Wage is higher than the Government Minimum Wage (£8.36) and National Living Wage (£9.50) and is set at £9.90 – having been calculated according to the cost of living by  the Living Wage Foundation. 

Louisa, our Account Support Administrator, said: “I’m really pleased that Flame UK has committed to fair pay by becoming Living Wage accredited.  For me, especially as a single parent, it’s really important to work for a company that shows that it values staff by paying fairly”. 

You can read more about the Living Wage here:  livingwage.org.uk

Meet the Expert 

This issue we introduce Ross, one of our Account Managers at Flame UK. Ross works with our clients to build great relationships and make sure that Flame UK is always meeting their business needs.   Ross deals with a huge range of different customers from a variety of sectors – manufacturers; construction companies; retailers and industrial sites. 

He tells us: “working with all kinds of sectors and their different types of waste streams means every customer and their business need is unique.  No two days are the same in supporting clients with their waste requirements.  It could be setting up a regular collection or dealing with on-demand requests – the scope of waste that Flame UK are able to deal with is huge.  We can even collect things you didn’t know could be recycled – surplus paint; different types of waste oils; chemicals and hazardous waste, as well as the usual recycling – we always find a way to help.”

 The cost of business waste disposal is rising – what can you do to reduce costs?

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Waste in the News 

This week we’ve been reading about….. 

• Apple have announced new technology to enable more Apple products to be recycled, claiming that it can recycle more of the components than conventional methods can: read the read the full story here

• Google have released time lapse photos of the effect of climate change on the planet – and also share data that people are searching more for sustainable choices:  click here to read the full story 

• Old carpets are tricky to recycle –  but new technology to make recycling carpets easier in a dedicated recycling plant have been revealed:  click here to read more

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