Veolia is challenging Eric Pickles on his decision to refuse planning permission to a new incinerator in Hertfordshire.

Viridor’s incineration facility in Oxfordshire has begun generating power after successfully synchronising with the National Grid.

A round- up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Recolight, Novelis, B&M Waste Services and Envac.

Averies Recycling has been served with an enforcement notice to move 3,000 tonnes of smouldering waste so an ongoing fire can be extinguished.

A new energy-from-waste (EfW) facility, set to be built in Northamptonshire in October, is reaching financial close.

Ahead of the implementation of the revised Waste Framework Directive, Veolia is advocating a twin-stream approach for dry recyclables.

In the wake of the Ebola outbreak, Pyropure’s Executive Chairman calls on hospitals to rethink how they manage clinical waste.

Aylesford Newsprint’s Managing Director, Ian Broxup, has left the newspaper recycling company after 18 years.

Six months on from the launch of the electronic duty of care system, the Environment Agency ‘dispels myths’ about the service.

The Environment Agency inspected more than 800 shipping containers in 2013/14, an increase of more than 400 per cent on 2012/13.