A report recommending refusal of an application for the creation of a 1,000,000m3 facility for the disposal of low level and very low level radioactive waste over an operational life of 50 years has been placed before Cumbria County Council.
Waste advisory body WRAP has issued new guidance encouraging local authorities to increase their ability to recycle rigid plastic packaging separately from plastic bottles - but only once they have established that recycling companies in their area can process the more complex plastics involved.
The Planning Inspector has upheld EA Wales's decision to revoke waste permits belonging to a North Wales builder and waste contractor after he consistently failed to obey enforcement notices for a string of offences.
A man from Leeds has been sent to prison for 12 months for illegally dumping thousands of tyres at an airfield near York, a wood, and other locations.
Hanson UK is trialing a new electricity generator at one of its quarries in Somerset that is powered by the weight of the rock coming off the quarry's conveyor belt.
The Princess Royal has officially opened Cory Environmental's Riverside Resource Recovery (RRR) plant in London, which, with an output of 66MW, is currently the largest EfW plant in the UK.
The collapse of Germany's third largest aluminium producer is proof that even in a relatively strong economy the sector still needs swifter action from Government to mitigate punitive carbon taxes, the German metal trades union WVM is claiming.
The Construction Products Association (CPA) says new ONS figures suggesting an even deeper decline in construction output in the first quarter of this year than previously estimated shows just how deep and long-lasting the recession is likely to be.
The central barrier of an eight-mile section of the M5 in the West Midlands has been renovated using 30,000 tonnes of recycled concrete as part of an eight-week contract run by Tarmac.
An inspector ruled that an increase in the volume of a replacement house in the North Wessex Downs AONB was indicative of the unacceptable scale of the scheme.
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