The owner of car breaking company JT Recovery Services has been handed a suspended 10-month prison sentence for running an illegal waste site.

The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on whether it should review its policy on radioactive waste management and disposal.

Frank Barnes (Darwen) Ltd has been fined £30,000 for exposing employees to lead fumes and dust.

A round up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including Recolight, Remondis UK, and Hadfield Wood Recyclers.

Nuclear waste consultancy Studsvik is developing a redundancy programme for its Waste Treatment operation.

The owner of a former brickworks in Lanarkshire has been fined £750 for keeping end-of-life vehicles without a waste management licence.

AMEC, Jacobs Engineering, and Balfour Beatty have been awarded a multi-million pound framework contract for Sellafield’s Box Encapsulation Plant project.

Biffa survey finds that 80 per cent of SMEs may dispose of hazardous waste illegally and could be liable to prosecution.

Tiny single-cell organisms could help with the problem of nuclear waste disposal, according to researchers at the University of Manchester.

When a tsunami hit the eastern coast of Japan in 2011, news outlets were filled with images of the damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant. Four years on, Will Simpson looks at the legacy of waste it’s left behind