Amey Plc has announced plans to build a new energy-from-waste facility in Cambridgeshire, inviting local residents to leave their feedback.

Biffa has stressed the need to address the UK’s supposed impending Energy from Waste capacity gap, following the lead of other leading waste management companies and figures in recent weeks.

The government has launched a competition offering the opportunity to win funding for research into sustainable waste-based fuels for planes and lorries.

Waste and resource use have been identified as a key area for action in the Mayor of London’s draft London Environment Strategy, which sets a municipal recycling target of 65 per cent for 2030.

Veolia has revealed that it is ‘confident’ that an agreement can be reached over its waste management contract with Sheffield City Council

The Global Footprint Network has launched a new app allowing people to calculate their personal impact on nature as Earth Overshoot Day arrives nearly a week earlier than last year.

The first delivery of food waste has been tipped at ReFood’s new £32-million anaerobic digestion facility in Dagenham, the largest food waste recycling plant in London.

The amount of residual waste being processed at energy-from-waste facilities in the UK rose by 18 per cent in 2016, according to waste and bioenergy consultancy Tolvik Consulting.

Fears about the future of UK environmental regulation and the legal oversight and case law on resources persist on the anniversary of the referendum that kicked off Brexit.

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.