New Earth Solutions Group Ltd partially re-finances Avonmouth Energy Recovery Facility with a debt facility from Macquarie Bank.

Food retailers and producers, including Marks & Spencer and Warburtons, join a new food waste education initiative for employees, ‘Working on Waste’.

A fire that started at Cleartech Waste’s derelict recycling facility in Hull last week was ‘started deliberately’, according to the fire service.

Fashion chain Superdry signs up to Scotland’s Carrier Bag Commitment, two weeks ahead of the implementation of the bag charge.

A round up of business news from the waste and resource sector, including the Resource Association, ReFood, Helistrat, and Green Alliance.

Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. submits planning permission to build a 200,000 tonne incinerator in Deeside.

A new sustainability rating has been launched to help customers compare the environmental credentials of mobile phone handsets.

SITA UK has released an interactive digital map illustrating UK local authority recycling rates, in a bid to encourage residents to ‘engage’ more with recycling.

Local authority-owned waste management company Ubico will take over waste collections in Tewkesbury once the council buys into the company next year.

Novelis has officially opened its new £161 million aluminium recycling centre in Nachterstedt, Germany.