Defra has established food waste, urban recycling and the benefits of resource efficiency as ‘high-level’ R&D priorities in the department.

Veolia has been forced to draft in an emergency director after its Leeds recycling and energy recovery facility missed recycling targets three times in a row.

Plans for a new £100-million incinerator capable of processing 110,000 tonnes of waste a year have been approved unanimously by Dundee City Council.

Absorbent hygiene product recycler Knowaste’s appeal against a planning rejection for a new plant in West London has also been rejected, leaving the company assessing its options about whether to continue its search for a new development.

Kier’s £120-million waste services contract in East Sussex is to be terminated early after recycling market issues hit the firm last year.

WRAP has developed its second regional partnership, this time with the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority, in an effort to increase recycling and waste prevention in the conurbation.

PHS Group has unveiled a new facility in the West Midlands that turns absorbent hygiene products like nappies and tampons into fuel.

With European guidance still going through the bureaucratic process and national policy seemingly well down the pecking order, local and regional authorities can take the reins and steer their areas into a more circular way of living.

Residents are being warned about the safe disposal of batteries following an explosion and fire in the back of a council recycling collection vehicle in Northamptonshire.

Keep Britain Tidy has launched a new campaign to combat the alarming rise in criminal fly-tipping, #CrimeNotToCare, targeting ‘ordinary people’ to promote awareness of the dangers of using unlicensed waste carriers.