Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service and County Council have called for tighter regulation and planning controls for recycling plants, after seeing 40 site fires in the last five 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.

A waste officer from the Environment Agency outlines why the UK needs more enforcement to target waste crime.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid has announced plans to cut £10 billion of ‘unnecessary’ regulation, including that for the waste sector, over the next five years.

A former Director of Dalkeith Demolition Limited has been fined £700 after being found guilty of breaching the conditions of a waste management licence.

An inquest into the death of a man who was killed in an industrial shredder at MID UK Recycling’s Grantham facility in Lincolnshire, has ruled the incident as ‘accidental’.

MEP Angélique Delahaye is to bring forward an amendment at tomorrow’s plenary session on the circular economy that backs a pan-European petition to make supermarkets donate unsold edible food to charities.

John Pointon & Sons in Staffordshire has been fined £660,000 after improper safety practices led to the 2011 death of contractor Mark Bullock.

The EEB, Aldersgate Group, and Der Groene Zaak have written to MEPs urging them to vote in favour of a draft report on the European circular economy next week.

A new EU-wide campaign is calling on the European Commission to include an obligation in its revised Circular Economy Package for supermarkets to donate their unsold food to charity.