Up to 80 firefighters were sent to Recycle Force’s waste facility in Corby over the weekend to stem a large blaze at its recycling storage warehouse.

The Department for Communities and Local Government has upheld its rejection of Veolia’s New Barnfield incinerator following High Courts’ reassessment ruling.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid has announced plans to cut £10 billion of ‘unnecessary’ regulation, including that for the waste sector, over the next five years.

A round-up of waste and resources news, including a food waste Visionary, litter action, and whales swimming in plastic bottles.

Resource and waste management company FCC Environment has become a member of the Resource Association, a trade association for the reprocessing and recycling industries and their supply chain.

Data measuring the input and output of material recovery facilities across England and Wales has been published for the first time today by WRAP.

A former Director of Dalkeith Demolition Limited has been fined £700 after being found guilty of breaching the conditions of a waste management licence.

A scrutiny report into the roll out of Dorset Waste Partnership’s county-wide ‘Recycle for Dorset’ scheme has found that no major problems persist with the service.

Energy-from-waste firm Shanks Group plc opened London Stock Exchange yesterday, after listing the first retail offering on London Stock Exchange’s ‘green market’.

Recycling company Neales Waste Management will move to CementirHolding’s Nordic & Baltic division, as part of a company group restructure.