Construction firm Interserve estimates that it will have to pay £70 million after design, procurement and installation issues led to ‘deterioration’ in the construction contract for Viridor’s planned gasification plant in Glasgow.

Ten per cent of Sainsbury’s annual national gas consumption is being provided by a partnership processing its own food waste, the supermarket says.

Dean Hislop, Chief Executive of Tamar Energy, urges local authorities to maintain or expand food waste recycling services, rather than making short-sighted cuts that could result in long-term pain.

The European Commission is working on an energy-from-waste communication that will address how the process can be optimised without compromising higher reuse and recycling rates, says European Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella.

Environmental groups have called for the next Mayor of London to harmonise the 20 different recycling systems across London as part of its Greener London movement.

Exports of refuse-derived fuel from England and Wales grew by over half a million tonnes in 2015, according to the RDF Industry Group.

Two recent discoveries at universities in the UK and Australia could result in more efficient biofuel production and anaerobic digestion processes.

A plant that developers say can process unsorted household waste, creating biogas and separated plastic and metals for recycling, is to be built by in Cheshire.

The Green Investment Bank will create a ‘special share’ in the company as part of the process to introduce private capital to the bank, the government announced yesterday.

Waste treatment company Clean Power Properties has suffered two setbacks to proposed waste gasification and pyrolysis developments in Corby and Carmarthenshire in the past week.