The 12-week consultation closes on 10 August and asks whether businesses claiming the Plastic Packaging Tax recycled content exemption should be required to hold independently audited chain-of-custody certificates.

Operators will need to pass identity, criminal record and technical competence checks from 2027, with illegal waste transport carrying up to five years in prison.

Office for Environmental Protection report identifies systemic weaknesses in inspection quality, consistency and oversight across regulated waste operations in England.

Chalmers University researchers find gasification produces synthetic methanol at up to 46 per cent lower cost than combustion routes favoured by EU regulation.

Latest figures show municipal incineration tonnage has risen 23 per cent since 2019, while total residual waste has fallen by close to 10 per cent during this time.

Analysis indicates that exemption changes could add up to £29.5 million per capital project and undermine offshore wind infrastructure investment.

Voluntary beta opens on 28 April ahead of mandatory use at around 12,000 permitted waste receiving sites in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from October.

Environmental Audit Committee report calls for group-based restrictions on PFAS, a national polluter-pays Remediation Fund, and expanded UK destruction capacity for stockpiled waste streams.

Behavioural research tested deposit levels between 10p and 30p before Exchange for Change settled on a flat rate, with 18 months to go until the October 2027 launch.

Work begins this week to remove 21,000 tonnes of illegally dumped waste from a site near the A34 in Oxfordshire, in an operation the Environment Agency expects to take six months and between 15 and 30 lorry loads a day.