Lincolnshire recycling firm Environcom has been fined £100,000 for safety failings after an employee was struck by a falling washing machine.

The former Managing Director of Smurfit Kappa, Simon Weston, has been appointed as Director of Raw Materials at the Confederation of Paper Industries.

EXCLUSIVE: Members of the biochemical sector are being asked to attend an event next week to help develop a new trade association for the industry.

Central government has chosen the Joint Trade Association’s waste electrical and electronic equipment compliance fee mechanism for the 2014 compliance period.

Members of Carpet Recycling UK recycled, reused or recovered 28 per cent of waste carpet in 2014, but missed self-imposed 2014 targets.

The UK Green Investment Bank is launching a £50-million investment fund to support biomass projects.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Viridor, ACE UK, and a search for Croydon fly-tippers.

Consumer goods company Unilever has announced that it has achieved zero waste to landfill.

Shanks Group has issued its interim management statement for the period 1 October 2014 to date.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has released its first ‘Digest of Waste and Resource Statistics’ collating official UK waste statistics for ‘ease of use’.