A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including an Environment Agency investigation, a waste survey and biofuel takeover.

In the 11 months since Cornwall Council introduced charges for certain items at household waste recycling facilities, fly-tipping of those items has more than doubled, council figures show.

The operator of an illegal waste site in Darlington has been ordered to pay £350,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act – a figure that could rise to almost £1.2 million should he come into future assets.

Landowners are being urged by the Environment Agency to be mindful of their responsibilities regarding illegal waste storage after 100,000 tyres and 3,000 cubic metres of plastic bales were removed from sites.

A Director of former compost recycling company Wormtech Limited could be liable to pay £1.6 million to cover the cost of clearing illegally-stored waste.

The United Nations has agreed a draft for its 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, which seeks to halve global food waste, ‘substantially reduce waste generation’ and curb climate change.

The Environment Agency has urged the public to be aware of the signs of waste crime as a man is fined £4,800 for illegally storing hazardous waste.

Around 50 staff at Brickkiln Waste Limited in Londonderry are to lose their jobs after being told that the company is going into administration.

Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole councils have published a new draft Waste Plan that outlines the local sustainable waste management strategy for the next 15 years.

The former Director of tyre recycling business Cartwright Projects Ltd has been given a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, for safety failings that led to an employee losing his forearm.