The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is to “explore the potential for further support” for the waste and resources sector as it rolls out a Covid-19 impacts survey.

Rick Hindley, Executive Director at Alupro, explores the possible implications of severe disruptions to UK recycling collections caused by Covid-19 and what it could mean for the aluminium packaging supply chain.

Waste management company Viridor will host a virtual exhibition this week consulting the local community on its plans to build a plastics reprocessing plant in Dunbar, Scotland.

The Recycling Association has asked Defra to ensure that household recycling collections are maintained to maintain sufficient availability of material for food and medical supply packaging.

The waste sector has largely welcomed the government’s Budget 2020, though stakeholders have called for further clarity on the forthcoming Plastics Packaging Tax.

INCPEN will be delivering the 2020 Resourcing the Future conference with CIWM, ESA and WRAP.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry, including Cawleys Waste Management, Geminor, Peterborough Household Recycling Centre, Devise.Marketing and DS Smith.

Resource management company Viridor has called on businesses and local authorities across the South West and south Wales to collaborate to give all plastics consumed in the area a recycling solution.

Viridor has signed a five-year contract with consumer goods group Procter and Gamble (P&G) for the supply of recycled plastic.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry, including CEPI, Go Plant Fleet Services, Geminor, Bunting and Recycling Technologies.