A new power plant that recovers used cooking oil to produce electricity has been officially opened in North Yorkshire.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including FCC Environment, Viridor, and Resource event.

Zero Waste Scotland and The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce are to host circular economy workshops in February.

This weekend (24 Jan), Bristol will host an ‘opening spectacle’ to mark the beginning of its year as the European Green Capital.

The Advisory Committee on Packaging has announced its new members, which include Jonathan Short of ECO Plastics and Rick Hindley of Alupro.

New data published for the second quarter of 2014/15 shows that, for the first time since 2009/10, household recycling rates have stalled in Northern Ireland.

The first year results of Courtauld Commitment 3 show that manufacturing and retail waste is on the rise, despite a voluntary target to reduce it by three per cent.

Government and retailers must ‘do more’ to reduce the ‘unacceptable’ levels of food waste produced in the UK, says the EFRA Committee.

Northern Ireland has extended its five-pence carrier bag charge to include all new ‘cheap’ carrier bags, including reusable ones.

Falkirk Council has announced that it will roll out its three-weekly waste collection service to the last remaining 25,000 properties in March.