SUEZ environnement’s £180-million incinerator in Great Blakenham, Suffolk, has been officially opened by the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, Clare, Countess of Euston.

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’.

European investment body AURELIUS Group has followed up its acquisition of plastics company ECO Plastics by purchasing Regain Polymers Holdings from Chamonix Private Equity.

A round-up of waste and resources news, including an eco-friendly tennis ball, recycled carpet and landfill donations.

Community action group GlosVAIN has announced plans for a resource recovery centre to rival the county council’s controversial energy-from-waste plant.

MEPs have voted to back circular economy proposals including recycling rates, incineration and resource ‘passports’ as part of on-going European Commission plans.

The MetalMatters campaign has delivered a ‘positive and lasting’ effect on metal recovery from kerbside collections says a report by organisers Alupro.

Torridge District Council will resume recycling services to its 31,500 households on Monday, two weeks after its collections contractor entered administratoin.

Thurrock Council will remove residents’ recycling bins if they are repeatedly contaminated, as part of a new ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy.

New WRAP report finds local authorities paid a median fee of £6 for every tonne of waste sent to material recovery facilities in 2014/15, but that some councils pay MRFs to take material, while others are paid for it.