Unite refuse workers employed by Birmingham City Council have voted for industrial action as the council announces 122 waste collection jobs are to be cut over the next two weeks.

A recycling firm based near Stratford-upon-Avon has been ordered to pay out £11,757 in fines and court costs following an incident in which one of its refuse collection vehicles reversed into a 77-year old woman.

Biffa has posted a £10.9 million statutory loss in its latest financial results for 2016/17, the first since its return to the stock market, and announced a new partnership to build two new energy recovery facilities with Covanta.

OLIO has launched a new donations feature to its food sharing app which encourages users to make a pay-as-you-feel donation to a food charity, with Feedback and FareShare the first to benefit.

Eleven people were hospitalised at Dublin’s new Poolbeg Incinerator last week after it appears a door seal was breached and lime was able to escape.

Waste firm SUEZ Recycling and Recovery has been made to pay over £230,000 after a worker at its Billingham incinerator was badly burned by escaping ash and steam.

A new website, UnsSkip.com, is trying to add a circular element to skip hire, by connecting users disposing of waste to those nearby in need of specific materials for free.

Waste firm Renewi has been awarded a 20-year contract to supply the new Ferrybridge Multifuel 2 facility with RDF, starting from Summer 2019.

Eunomia Research & Consulting has opened its first office in North America, as it seeks to continue its international expansion with a New York office.

Marks and Spencer has launched its new sustainability plan, Plan A 2025, making a range of sustainability commitments including ensuring all packaging is ‘widely recyclable’ by 2022 and planning to halve food waste by 2025.