Plastics reprocessing company ECO Plastics announces it is looking for a buyer, following ‘operational challenges and unfavourable market conditions’.

The waste electrical and electronic equipment distributor take back scheme is calling on local authorities to apply to its £700,000 fund to further reuse and recycling.

The BBC is to run a new, three-part series on waste next year, with campaigner and chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall presenting the programme.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme has officially registered as a charity.

Government must work to ‘lift the regulatory burden’ on remanufacturing if its ‘enormous economic, social and environmental potential’ is to be realised.

A round-up of business news from the resource sector, including Recolight, FCC Environment, Viridor, and Remondis.

Nestlé and Unilever are amongst a number of companies working with the resource industry in a new project to ‘create a circular economy for flexible packaging’.

FCC Medio Ambiente SA has been chosen as the preferred bidder for Edinburgh and Midlothian councils’ residual waste contract.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council warns it may have to make 500 people redundant and undertake a ‘wholesale evaluation’ of a range of services, including waste, to manage its budget.

SITA UK’s incinerator in Great Blakenham has begun exporting power to the National Grid.