‘News Releases’

New Quality Assurance Mark for Duchy Hospital and Bodmin Treatment Centre

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Two locations in Cornwall are among the first in the country to be certified under a new Government-backed scheme designed to weed out “cowboy” cosmetic injection providers. The Duchy Hospital in Truro and Bodmin Treatment Centre have both been awarded a Quality Assurance Mark by the Independent Healthcare Advisory Service, an organisation designed to drive [...]

Recycling company full of beans after deal with national coffee vending company

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A leading South West recycling company has signed an agreement with one of the UK’s biggest vending companies to manage the recycling of thousands of end-of-life vending machines each year. The machines owned by Kafévend will be processed by The Electronic Waste Company at its Pool headquarters in Cornwall. Kafévend owns more than 11,000 machines [...]

Cornish firm starts work on Wales’ first food waste-to-energy plant

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A Cornish firm has started construction work on the first facility of its kind in Wales to turn food waste into energy and heat. H2OK, based at Allet near Truro, together with partner EnviTec Biogas from Germany has won a £4.5m contract to construct the principality’s first “closed loop” large-scale commercial anaerobic digester. The digester [...]