Novelis has officially opened its new £161 million aluminium recycling centre in Nachterstedt, Germany.

The first reporting period of the Materials Facility Regulations, which requires operators to sample incoming and outgoing streams, has begun today.

Dr Helmut Maurer from the EC Directorate General for Environment has suggested that resource policy should be kept separate from waste.

A round-up of business news from the waste sector, including Closed Loop Recycling, Countrystyle Recycling, and Plastics Recyclers Europe.

A campaign to increase carton recycling has been launched by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and Environment UK.

The Environment Agency has begun consulting on its proposals to increase charges to waste facilities and introduce new charges.

The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation has marked its 25th year of operation with a celebratory dinner.

The UK’s ‘largest resource efficiency and waste management event’, RWM in partnership with CIWM, begins today.

RWM Ambassadors panel has released a report outlining steps that could be taken to achieve a circular economy.

Plastics 2020 partners announce plans to further develop the Plastics Industry Recycling Action Plan to ‘help industry move toward’ 2017 recycling targets.