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.
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 meaning of 'zero waste', whether the waste industry is part of the green economy, and the future of waste planning and local authority waste services are all due to be key subjects of debate at the CIWM annual conference in London in June.
Radioactive waste contractor Endecom is taking stock of its options after Cumbria County Council rejected its plan to store up to a million cubic metres of low-level radioactive waste in a former open cast coal mine.
Scrap metal dealers in North Wales have been warned that their yards could be closed and they could face prosecution if they deal in stolen cables.
Waste contractor MWH Associates has been granted leave to have a full appeal over the latest ruling in its long-running campaign to force Wrexham Council to pay over £4m in compensation for designating part of one of its sites as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC).
Biogas plant operators have been warned to ensure they have adequate spill warning systems in place after an AD plant operator was fined £5,000 for polluting a nearby river despite being warned by the EA a month before about not having alarms.
The proportion of household waste in England being diverted from landfill has continued its trend upwards, the latest DEFRA figures suggest, while waste generation per person has decreased.
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