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On the 4th of May this year, for the second year 'running', an amazing fourteen employees from Alpha Environmental gave up their Bank Holiday weekend to give something back to the community and charity by running the Belfast City Marathon.

The group of participants ran the marathon as relay teams and managed to raise a final total of £1000 for the charities Home Start and The Alzheimers Society.

The company extends it's thanks to all those who took part.  Thanks are also extended to those who sponsored the runners.

Alpha Environmental has recently had it's OHSAS 18001 accreditation updated to the 2007 standard. 

This Internationally recognised standard covers all elements of Health and Safety in the organisation and ensures that Safety at Work Legislation is implemented and adherred to throughout the company.

The company is extremely proud to have achieved the OHSAS 18001:2007 accreditation.  Having not only been accreditated with this certification but also the BS EN ISO 9001: 2000 for Quality Management, and the BS EN ISO 14001:2004 for Environmental Management, demonstrates the committment to excellence and continual improvement that the company wishes to provide to all its customers. 

The Irish Government has published new codes of practice for unauthorised waste activities and contaminated land enforcement. 

The development and publication of these codes of practices comes following Ireland's environmental regulators analysing and observing how their oversees peers are enforcing environmental law.

With these now in place the Environmental Protection Agency have called on authorities to get more 'robust' with their actions, as the policies set out information on the detection of offences, policies on clean-up and remediation, and provides the powers for penalties and sanctions.

According to EDIE the code represents a significant part of Ireland's response to a European Court of Justice judgement, as well as providing the means of strengthening the existing enforcement system.