Groups from across the waste industry have warned that proposed Environment Agency changes to waste wood classification could reduce the UK’s recycling rate by two to six per cent a year.

Biffa has stressed the need to address the UK’s supposed impending Energy from Waste capacity gap, following the lead of other leading waste management companies and figures in recent weeks.

Anti-social behavior, assaults and threats against officers have led to the Environment Agency trialing body cameras for North-East enforcement officers.

The government has launched a competition offering the opportunity to win funding for research into sustainable waste-based fuels for planes and lorries.

Just under £500,000 in government funding will be awarded to community projects tackling litter in the UK in new and interesting ways, Environment Minister Therese Coffey has announced today.

Environmental coalition Greener UK says clarity is needed on how environmental law will be enforced after Brexit, as the government prepares to publish its position paper on the European Court of Justice.

Zero Waste Scotland has called on businesses, local authorities and other organisations in Scotland to work together to take the lead on litter prevention in their communities.

The government has confirmed that the sale of the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) to Australian investment firm Macquarie Group has been fully completed in a £2.3 billion deal, with the GIB to be renamed the Green Investment Group.

ReFood Commercial Director Philip Simpson suggests the recently announced £200-million waste budget boost for local authorities is masking rising landfill disposal costs, for which there are economic alternatives.

SUEZ has responded to Eunomia’s debated overcapacity findings with its own prediction stressing that the UK is heading for a shortfall in residual waste treatment capacity.