• Sun Valley is fitting low-rolling resistance Michelin Energy tyres
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to its maximum-weight artics, and recording a 7.3% average diesel consumption saving. The best weekly average consumption across those trucks thus-equipped to date is recorded at 8.75mpg.
• Waddington, Lincolnshire-based
Overton UK (01522 723773) is now marketing the hydraulically-powered 08 ERG press which will crush 25-litre drums as well as fitters. It also supplies Power Drain sump plugs. These can be used to help suck oil out of a sump, reducing the spillage risks associated with allowing it to drain out.
• BP has produced a guide to the revised Special Waste Regulations, which came into effect in September. Ring Julie Challis (01442 224054) for a free copy.
4. The Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office have produced a useful publication entitled Making Waste Work: A strategy for sustainable waste management in England and Wales. It costs £16 and is available from HMSO bookshops or direct from HMSO Publications Centre (tel: 0171 873 9090).
.4., Another source of information on waste handling is the Environmental Technology Best Practice
Programme, a joint Department of Trade and Industry and Department of the Environment initiative. It produces a wide selection of literature, and its helpline (0800 585974) provides free advice on environmental technical matters and legislation.
tt. Tyre gaup Continental (tel: 01895 445678) is introducing a new environmental service to the UK. Not only will it collect and dispose of casings which cannot be retreaded, in the longer term it will be extended to cope with old engine oil, used brake fluid and other workshop waste.
44. Decoke Master UK (tel: 01484 680300) is claiming that emission reductions of up to 70% can be achieved by using the DS-developed Carbon Clean system, said to cleanse the engine of internal deposits.